Twenty years ago, the old-time string band Carolina Chocolate Drops turned heads and wowed audiences. They were young. They were Black. And with their fiddles and banjos, they launched a movement that ...

Portsmouth Book & Bar will welcome the Jake Schepps Quintet on Friday, Jan. 30, the in what promises to be one of the most unique shows not only for the venue, but for Portsmouth as well. ' The ...

Dave Johnston, co-founder of the Nederland, Colorado-based bluegrass group, Yonder Mountain String Band, has been helming a set of musicians throughout a long, steady and prolific career. The jam band ...

With their slouch hats, whiskers and time-worn instruments, members of the 2nd South Carolina String Band look and sound like a Civil War camp band. And while they play “Oh! Susannah” and other ...

If you'd like to escape the presidential election, take your banjo or fiddle to this week's Appalachian String Band Music Festival, known as "Clifftop," in West Virginia. Summer is a season for ...

Dixieland jazz has the slide trombone and rock music the electric guitar, but bluegrass wouldn’t be bluegrass without the five-string banjo. “You have old time string bands that have fiddles and ...