SALISBURY — In a rambling, late 1800s house on South Main Street, Carrie and Eric Webster have dedicated two rooms to Carolina Folkworks. They’re starting their new folk art school modestly with a ...

The banjo rules everything around Hank Smithwell, almost. He’s played it in multiple traditional outfits for almost a decade, added the banjo to area pop-rock acts, built the world’s only tribute to ...

Last year I wrote about young banjoist Conlan Kerschner from Lancaster County who was, and still is, taking banjo lessons from veteran banjoist Keith Kupp in Adamstown. Since that article was ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! When Karl and Jackie Dieterichs first opened their folk music shop in 1966, it wasn’t ...

“Bluegrass is much more complex and advanced,” says R.D. Eno, a Cabot musician who has played claw-hammer banjo for over 50 years. “This banjo style (clawhammer) is separate from the bluegrass world,” ...

Deep dives into physics topic such as driving point impedance, a part of electrical engineering, aren't the first things that come to mind when most think about the bluegrass banjo. But that's exactly ...