The banjo, for years in the background, stepped out of the shadows in the steady hands of Earl Scruggs. Beyond his many recordings and appearances, the bluegrass music legend, who died Wednesday at 88 ...

“When you get to the highest levels of the entertainment business,” says banjo expert Pete Wernick, “you never know what to expect.” The Coloradan is experiencing this truism firsthand. Since making ...

Banjo expert Pete Wernick, of Hot Rize fame, has never been content to imprison himself within genre conventions, even when the style is bluegrass, a format he loves. What The, the focus of a Friday, ...

In 1963, when the folk-music trend made a young Greg Deering want to learn to play the banjo, his mother said no. But he was obsessed, desperate to create the sounds he had heard on a Kingston Trio ...