The banjo isn’t exactly the first instrument that comes to mind when you think of the classical concert hall, but Virginia native John Bullard has blended his background in bluegrass and Bach to bring ...

Tim Weed has heard all the banjo jokes -- the constant digs about the banjo in the movie Deliverance or the Beverly Hillbillies TV show. But a funny thing happens when Weed actually plays the ...

Tim Weed is used to the funny looks he gets when he tells people he plays classical music on the five-string banjo. In particular, he remembers the reaction he got from a European media mogul when he ...

"I felt, in writing this piece, that there was an openness, or a kind of a renewed freshness, I had working with music materials, because I was working in a new form. It took out all the cobwebs in ...

You scan the playlist — Schumann, Handel, Bach, and friends — and you wonder how this is possible. But no: John Bullard is serious, and although he plays the banjo, he does not view that as an ...

A banjo player named for three classical composers, Béla Anton Leos Fleck celebrates both bluegrass and classical sounds with his original music. Fleck will be the featured artist with the Louisiana ...

It seems so appropriate for a man named Bela Anton Leos Fleck to put out a record of classical music. After all, his name pays tribute to composers Bartok, Dvorak and Janacek. But how does a banjo ...

Sabzal has mastered playing classical music on banjo and does that regularly on the Pakistan Television programme, Raag Rang. The programme exclusively features the outstanding exponents of classical ...

What in the holy name of Earl Scruggs is a banjo doing in the middle of a 36-piece classical orchestra? The quick answer: trying to blend in - and not to blend in - at the same time On Sunday night, ...

series was a sure winner. Like ASO, Fleck is expanding his musical world, seriously projecting the possibilities of his instrument, the banjo, beyond bluegrass to classical and world stages.

Classic Banjo, out August 6, features tracks by the best American banjo players over the past 60 years. Photo courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings The banjo conjures American musical icons: the ...

A banjo player named for three classical composers, Béla Anton Leos Fleck celebrates both bluegrass and classical sounds with his original music, to be performed in the New Orleans area from Jan. 8-10 ...