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 ...

The Banjo Man’s streak of playing at 49er games will continue. He’ll just have to travel farther south to keep it going. Fairfax’s Stacy Samuels has been wearing the propeller hat, gold t-shirt and ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley spent part of his Memorial Day strumming a banjo as a street musician in Annapolis. Photos of the governor playing a six-string banjo emerged ...

Ebola doctor Craig Spencer is feeling good enough to use a stationary bike and play his banjo while he stays in the hospital. The Hamilton Heights doctor stricken with Ebola is feeling so good, he’s ...

Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn, the world's pre-eminent banjo players, perform twice in New Jersey this month. The husband-wife duo stop at SOPAC April 7 and Princeton University April 13. "This tour ...

And a yee-haw to Dinah and Noah Stroe, who, every other Tuesday night since January, have hosted an old-time music jam in the coffee shop near the exit of Andronico’s Market on Irving Street. They ...