Call it ragtime, Dixieland jazz or riverboat music, members of the East Bay Banjo Club call it “happy” music and have been playing it for 50 years. Every Tuesday night, banjo amateurs and ...

The Banjo Man’s streak of playing at 49er games will continue. He’ll just have to travel farther south to keep it going. Fairfax’s Stacy Samuels has been wearing the propeller hat, gold t-shirt and ...

When Lorraine and Bennett Hammond aren't hanging out in their funky old Brookline home, trading a few banjo and mandolin licks back and forth at the kitchen table, they're apt to be giving concerts of ...

With a cookie tin, a broom handle, weedwhacker string and a little hardware, we ambitiously set to work. Master instrument crafts-men? Maybe not. But the akontings and banjos we built Saturday at the ...

And a yee-haw to Dinah and Noah Stroe, who, every other Tuesday night since January, have hosted an old-time music jam in the coffee shop near the exit of Andronico’s Market on Irving Street. They ...