The 12th Annual Danny Barker Banjo & Guitar Festival will take place March 6–29, 2026, at venues across New Orleans.

Chicago banjo whiz Michael J. Miles has launched some strange, ambitious ventures through the years. He has penned a “Yellowbird Concerto” for banjo and orchestra, transformed music of blues pioneer ...

Ryan Cavanaugh plays banjo as part of Bill Evans’ Soulgrass touring band. Bringing together jazz and bluegrass, and recommended to Evans by both John McLaughlin and Béla Fleck, Cavanaugh funnels ...

The New Orleans banjo maestro goes back to his roots An easy-going singer, virtuoso of the banjo and larger-than-life character, Don Vappie is as New Orleans as they come. His mixed-race Creole ...

It seems at last the banjo's long winter (or perpetual summer, perhaps) may be over. With such practitioners about as Eugene Chadbourne, Joe Morris and Brandon Seabrook (to name a few), the plucky ...

Bela Fleck will present the world premiere of his Concerto for Banjo and Orchestra— one of the first ever written for the instrument—with the Nashville Symphony on September 22-24 at Schermerhorn ...

As the title of Danny Barker’s autobiography made clear, he lived “A Life in Jazz.” As this week's Danny Barker Banjo & Guitar Festival will make clear, he continues to inspire those who play New ...

If bluegrass quintet the Steep Canyon Rangers were booked at the New Orleans Jazz Fest on their own, they'd likely be on the intimate Sheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage. The Steep Canyon Rangers ...

In jazz circles, those who are celebrated as singular talents usually earn the accolade through sheer skill; they are, by any accounting, the absolute best on their instrument. As such, Bela Fleck ...

Led by note-hopping extremists Mick Barr, Mary Halvorson and Weasel Walter, the lethal, yet improbable, overlap of jazz and metal is proving a brutal cross-genre fusion, ascending from the crud-filled ...