For some reason, the banjo is an instrument that lends itself to jokes. For example, one joke asks, “What’s worse than a banjo?” The answer, “Two banjos.” If that’s the case, the audience can ...
Vernon native Nick Piccininni, mandolinist for CO-based bluegrass group, Yonder Mountain String Band, plays Stanley Theatre ...
Danny Barnes has added a few items to his survival guide. Barnes, the former front man and banjo-pickin’ fool of the Bad Livers, left the loving arms of the red-hot Austin music scene in 1999, landing ...
To many friends and acquaintances in southern Minnesota, Lowell Schreyer was a retired journalist who played the banjo. In the “banjo world” however, Lowell Schreyer was a giant. He traveled the world ...
What's the physical mechanism behind the distinctive sound of a banjo? David Politzer — probably better known for his work on quantum chromodynamics than his passion for banjos — may not be the first ...