Béla Fleck is often considered the world’s greatest banjo player. The sixteen-time Grammy winner has earned awards under the headings of jazz, world music, classical, folk, bluegrass, pop instrumental ...

Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn, the world's pre-eminent banjo players, perform twice in New Jersey this month. The husband-wife duo stop at SOPAC April 7 and Princeton University April 13. "This tour ...

For better or worse, Earl Scruggs will be remembered by most Americans for his banjo picking alongside partner Lester Flatt in a dated 1960s cultural artifact: "The Beverly Hillbillies." For better, ...

NASHVILLE -- Bluegrass legend and banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, who helped profoundly change country music with Bill Monroe in the 1940s and later with guitarist Lester Flatt, has died. He was 88.

If you’re old enough to remember “The Beverly Hillbillies,” the show’s banjo-driven theme song — “The Ballad of Jed Clampett” — might be playing your head right about now. If you aren’t, you might be ...

The three-finger "Scruggs style," popularized during his stint in Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys in the 1940s and heard in the "Beverly Hillbillies" theme, remains the dominant method for playing ...

On Sunday evening, 15-time Grammy award-winning banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck took the stage of Longwood Gardens’ Open Air Theatre alongside his touring bluegrass band. Fleck and his bandmates are in the ...

Bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs, the banjo-playing musician who recorded The Beverly Hillbillies' theme song," has died. He was 88. Scruggs died Wednesday of natural causes at a Nashville hospital, his ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. When bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs passed away this week, he left a ...

Tim Weed has heard all the banjo jokes -- the constant digs about the banjo in the movie Deliverance or the Beverly Hillbillies TV show. But a funny thing happens when Weed actually plays the ...