Stacker takes a look at Black artists music wouldn't be the same without, from Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Tupac Shakur.

On this day (October 29) in 1937, Sonny Osborne was born in Thousandsticks, Kentucky. After learning to play the banjo as a child, he formed a group with his brother, Bobby Osborne. Together, the ...

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 ...

This is one in a series of articles that will also appear in the New York Jets 2025 Yearbook, which will be published later this summer. Aaron Glenn, early in his first year as head coach of the Jets, ...

A little banjo music went a long way recently at a retirement community on the northwest side. The Arizona Banjo Blasters brought their ragtime sound to The Fountains at La Cholla, where about 70 ...

As much as I love the Nintendo 64, it’s easy to argue that some of these games have not aged well. Timeless classics such as GoldenEye 007, Super Mario 64, and others are a pain to play today, brought ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — American Roots band Old Crow Medicine Show is bringing its blend of traditional country, old-time string music, bluegrass and funk to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center 8 p.m. April ...

Noam Pikelny won’t be far from home when the renowned banjo maestro — a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning acoustic quintet Punch Brothers who now calls the town of Danby his home — brings ...

Béla Fleck, a 17-time Grammy award winner who has spent decades perfecting his skills on the banjo, is on a quest to make the banjo beloved. “If I had a mission statement,” Fleck said, “it would be to ...

A former 'Tonight Show' head writer and "Dueling Banjos" performer, he and Woody Allen also partnered on 'Sleeper' and two other films. By Chris Koseluk Marshall Brickman, the banjo-playing writer and ...