ANCHOR INTRO: The Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad says its ultimate purpose is to make the world more musical. KPBS arts reporter Beth Accomando says you can get your hands on an electric banjo and ...

Randy Arnold played guitar; he wasn’t sure if he wanted to tangle with the banjo. But when he picked one up and plucked it, the sound hit him right in the breadbasket. “I bought one of those bottom-of ...

Pharis and Jason Romero share one mic. Nearly three years ago, they stood on a stage just barely two feet off the dirt ground, harmonizing into that vintage-styled device. It’s the most ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. There is no way to achieve that old-fashioned Appalachian ...

<!–Richie Dotson puts the finishing touches on a guitar repair. Dotson first started repairing stringed instruments out of a need to fix his own banjo. –>If you’ve got a sick banjo, Richie Dotson has ...

When asked the location of the single largest producer of banjos in the United States, one might be tempted to guess Tennessee or Kentucky. The correct answer, though, is here in Spring Valley.

in the United States between the 1730s and the 1830s turns up 58 different references to the banjo-and 57 of those citations describe the instrument as being played by black Americans. Ross, one of ...