Cynthia Sayer is also an American Banjo Hall of Fame member and founding member of Woody Allen’s New Orleans Jazz Band.

Banjo player Clinton Knorpp swears the rain began pelting twice as hard just as the Still House String Band jumped on stage. It was the cold mountain kind of rain that’s not fan friendly, and the ...

Bluegrass pioneer Earl Scruggs was born 100 years ago this week, and the tributes to the banjo picker have been many. On Friday, Tony Trischka, himself a banjo disciple of Scruggs, released a ...

Last year, The String got a new opening theme tune. “Vera” comes from New York based mandolin virtuoso, composer and band ...

Buddy Griffin is waiting for the youth banjo band he directs to get the attention he feels it deserves. "When you say banjo, people think you don't have teeth," said Griffin, associate pastor of ...

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With their slouch hats, whiskers and time-worn instruments, members of the 2nd South Carolina String Band look and sound like a Civil War camp band. And while they play “Oh! Susannah” and other ...

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate The foot-stomping rhythms and improvisational wildness of string-band music is invigorating, moving, soulful, sometimes uplifting. String ...