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 ...

Michael Nix will bring his New Classic Banjo Project to the Wendell Meetinghouse for a series of workshops and a solo ...

The banjo isn’t exactly the first instrument that comes to mind when you think of the classical concert hall, but Virginia native John Bullard has blended his background in bluegrass and Bach to bring ...

Béla Fleck turns 68 today. The Grammy-winning virtuoso, called 'The World's Best Banjoist,' has spent decades pushing the ...

It seems so appropriate for a man named Bela Anton Leos Fleck to put out a record of classical music. After all, his name pays tribute to composers Bartok, Dvorak and Janacek. But how does a banjo ...

series was a sure winner. Like ASO, Fleck is expanding his musical world, seriously projecting the possibilities of his instrument, the banjo, beyond bluegrass to classical and world stages.

A banjo player named for three classical composers, Béla Anton Leos Fleck celebrates both bluegrass and classical sounds with his original music, to be performed in the New Orleans area from Jan. 8-10 ...

You scan the playlist — Schumann, Handel, Bach, and friends — and you wonder how this is possible. But no: John Bullard is serious, and although he plays the banjo, he does not view that as an ...

"I felt, in writing this piece, that there was an openness, or a kind of a renewed freshness, I had working with music materials, because I was working in a new form. It took out all the cobwebs in ...