Pete Seeger (1919 - 2014) was a giant of our time. Growing up in a musical family, he had a long and productive career as a folk song leader and social activist. Overall, he appears (or is otherwise ...

The loss in Aug. 2007 of the famed transplanted NH resident, Irish singer/songwriter and national folk hero of the Emerald Isle at 74, Tommy Makem, alerted me recently to a news photo of Tommy with ...

In Dead Rails, you will be able to pick up a Banjo and play the Linga Guli Guli meme tune on it. However, it takes time to master the instrument, and you will not be able to pick up the tune right ...

STRING THEORY: “In retrospect, when I look back on my life, I understand there had always been a passion for banjo music,” says Mike Savino of Tall Tall Trees. As a solo act, he's taken that ...

Most people would say, "A banjo is a banjo," but there are two separate worlds of banjo lovers separated by one thin string. Five-string pickers play bluegrass and folk music, and four-string ...