J.D. Crowe, a banjo player who helped define the instrument for generations of bluegrass fans, died Friday, his family announced on Facebook. “This morning at around 3 a.m,, our dad, JD Crowe, went ...

Sleepy Man Banjo Boys are a bluegrass band of brothers from New Jersey. The group, comprised of 17-year-old Tommy, 14-year-old Robbie, and 12-year-old Jonny Mizzone, first got into bluegrass thanks to ...

When he was three years old, Jerry Douglas heard the groundbreaking banjo licks of Earl Scruggs on the turntable each morning during breakfast at his childhood home in northeastern Ohio. “And we’d ...

In more than one sense, music has made the Mizzone brothers grow up. The three siblings – Tommy, Robbie, and Jonny Mizzone from Lebanon Township – started playing bluegrass as the Sleepy Man Banjo ...

What: Del and Dawg, bluegrass music with Del McCoury and David Grisman. When: 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 6. Where: Vilar Performing Arts Center, 68 Avondale Lane, Beaver Creek. Cost: $58. More ...

Noam Pikelny won’t be far from home when the renowned banjo maestro — a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning acoustic quintet Punch Brothers who now calls the town of Danby his home — brings ...