LOWELL — Folding chairs clogged the halls of Lowell High School Saturday. The sound of string instruments bounced off blue lockers. Toes tapped. Knees bounced. Heads bobbed. Players of all ages and ...

Call it ragtime, Dixieland jazz or riverboat music, members of the East Bay Banjo Club call it “happy” music and have been playing it for 50 years. Every Tuesday night, banjo amateurs and ...

When Lorraine and Bennett Hammond aren't hanging out in their funky old Brookline home, trading a few banjo and mandolin licks back and forth at the kitchen table, they're apt to be giving concerts of ...

With a cookie tin, a broom handle, weedwhacker string and a little hardware, we ambitiously set to work. Master instrument crafts-men? Maybe not. But the akontings and banjos we built Saturday at the ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Despite being surrounded by banjos most of her life, 93-year-old Marion Bolt didn't start playing until she was in her seventh ...

World War II Veteran John Halpin started playing the banjo when he was a young boy. He was inspired to learn how to play the instrument after watching his mother play the piano. “It’s happy music,” ...