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“If you win your fantasy baseball league will it make you a better guy?” This tongue-in-cheek lyric is among many questions musician Andrew Smith poses with his incredibly earnest alt-country debut ...
Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sánchez depart Venice after multi-day wedding extravaganza The nuptials capped a high-profile series of events in Italy.
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Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s wedding invite slammed over ‘ugly’ design and use of ‘clip art’ The couple’s Venice wedding is expected to take place this week ...
On June 11, Béla Fleck will perform his banjo-centric rendition of “Rhapsody in Blue” with Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at Atlanta Symphony Hall. (Courtesy of Béla Fleck) ...
June 15-21 is “Bluegrass Week” with emphasis on flat-picking, bluegrass banjo, bluegrass fiddle, mandolin, swing and western swing rhythm guitar, ukulele, bass, songwriting, bluegrass vocals ...
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The banjo eventually fell out of favor—even after its link to African Americans was forgotten by the general public—as it then became associated with "hillbillies." ...
For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music scenes has been a long road. A festival in Durham this weekend aims to remedy that.
Along with his musical partner Eric Weissberg, he had released “New Dimensions in Banjo and Bluegrass” (1963), perhaps the second or third most influential banjo record ever made.
Comedian Steve Martin and Grammy-winning bluegrass artist Alison Brown, talk their years of banjo collaborations, new single "5 Days Out, 2 Days Back" ...