Foggy Mountain Spaceship played a beautifully hypnotic banjo cover of the classic Pink Floyd song "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun".

The B16 is a 5-string maple resonator, which means it exhibits a very loud tone that has a wealth of snap, articulation and clarity. Yes, it’s a fine banjo for solo work, but it excels at cutting ...

"My father was born with this instrument," Laemouahuma ... thumb sounds the akonting's short string as the hand moves back upward. When Jatta looked at early banjo instruction books from the ...

When putting together this top 10 of the most influential banjo players of all time, we needed to make a decision. Do we consider everybody that plays a stringed instrument with a drum for a body, or ...

Banjo experts predict that this craze may be different from banjo crazes of the past. And this time, the instrument—once confined to the worlds of folk and country—is making inroads into pop.

As Flemons became swept away by the instrument’s natural syncopation and versatility, his understanding of its history broadened when he picked up Pete Seeger’s How to Play the Five-String Banjo.

and its tangled journey as the quintessential American instrument ... she also plays the banjo. … You see these people coming into their own. There isn’t another Black string band, and that ...

So, there's no way to confuse Beyoncé's new era as anything but country especially if songs like "Texas Hold 'Em" heavily feature a historically Black southern instrument like the banjo.