Béla Fleck is often considered the world’s greatest banjo player. The sixteen-time Grammy winner has earned awards under the headings of jazz, world music, classical, folk, bluegrass, pop instrumental ...

Béla Fleck says the first time he heard someone playing banjo it was “like sparks going off in my head.” Fleck heard Earl Scruggs playing the “Beverly Hillbillies” TV theme and, though he was a New ...

Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn, the world's pre-eminent banjo players, perform twice in New Jersey this month. The husband-wife duo stop at SOPAC April 7 and Princeton University April 13. "This tour ...

On Sunday evening, 15-time Grammy award-winning banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck took the stage of Longwood Gardens’ Open Air Theatre alongside his touring bluegrass band. Fleck and his bandmates are in the ...

Bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs, the banjo-playing musician who recorded The Beverly Hillbillies' theme song," has died. He was 88. Scruggs died Wednesday of natural causes at a Nashville hospital, his ...

Queue up the banjo, pour yourself some moonshine and get real comfy-like, because the Clampetts are coming to North Texas, where the Garland Civic Theatre is hosting its own version of The Beverly ...

When people think of the banjo, the music that comes to mind is most likely the theme song from Deliverance or The Beverly Hillbillies. But there's more to a banjo than pop culture plucking. Over more ...

When The Beverly Hillbillies made its TV debut in 1962, it was dismissed by critics as little more than a hillbilly cartoon, but the viewers knew better. With its fish-out-of-water premise, lovable ...