STRING THEORY: “In retrospect, when I look back on my life, I understand there had always been a passion for banjo music,” says Mike Savino of Tall Tall Trees. As a solo act, he's taken that ...

SIOUX CITY -- The one-string banjo player from the best Midwestern Southern Gospel musical group you've never heard of has officially left his post in Mercy Medical Center dish room.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There’s a reverence attached to the string quartet as a unit: a perfectly contained foursome, heir to one of ...

Beyonce’s hit “Texas Hold ’Em” opens with a beat seldom heard on hip-hop tracks: the unmistakable clip-clop of a four-stringed clawhammer banjo. It comes via folk icon Rhiannon Giddens, who was ...