Billy Strings took the stage before a sold-out crowd in Lexington, KY on Friday hours after his mom passed away.

Strings and Sutton will return to Kentucky to showcase the album and the traditional luster of its music with concerts Sept.

In 1964, Jerry Garcia showed up to the festival intent on auditioning for Bill Monroe’s band as a banjo player. He and his companions camped in the Hippy Hill vicinity, and Garcia met Monroe. But ...

Weir had met Garcia a year before Grateful Dead’s birth. Walking the back alleys of Palo Alto on New Year’s Eve, Weir heard a banjo playing coming from Dana Morgan’s Music Store and sought to ...

Jerry Garcia It's best to start with Jerry Garcia , the guiding light of the Grateful Dead. In 1961, Garcia met a man named Robert Hunter, who would go on to be a long-time friend and lyricist for ...

The determined young girl simply turned the banjo upside down and taught herself to play that way. For the treble, or higher notes, she used her thumb; for the bass, her fingers.

Steve Martin, Alison Brown continue bluegrass collab with '5 Days Out, 2 Days Back' Comedian Steve Martin, Grammy-winning bluegrass artist Alison Brown, talk their years of banjo collaborations ...

That band featured the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia on banjo and singer-songwriter Peter Rowan on guitar. Its self-titled 1973 debut formed an enduring backdrop for the rich California scene ...

Sam Grisman, the 35-year-old son of mandolin icon David “Dawg” Grisman, grew up in a unique and supercharged musical environment, to put it mildly. Jerry Garcia was coming over all the time to the ...

With Garcia on banjo, Rowan playing guitar, and Grisman taking up mandolin duties, OITW also featured bassist John Kahn. Richard Greene, John Hartford, and Vassar Clements rotated on fiddle.

Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir met for the first time on New Year’s Eve in 1963. The pair jammed, hit it off and went on to form an ensemble called Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions – an ...

Weir was 16 when he first heard Jerry Garcia playing banjo outside a music shop in Palo Alto. "It was New Year's Eve, basically he invited us in.