The banjo comes commonly in three basic flavors: 4-string, 5-string and 6-string, and is arguably one of the most difficult stringed instruments to learn. When paired with a fiddle, mandolin, acoustic ...

At the back of the pizza parlor sit five rows of musicians, plucking and bouncing away. They all wear red vests. They all wear black bow ties. And they all wear broad smiles. They say they can't help ...

Sometime last winter, Noam Pikelny grew restless. He’d recently wrapped up a tour with the Punch Brothers, plucking his banjo strings to songs from the group’s chart-topping album, The Phosphorescent ...