LIVERMORE — Jim Bottorff settles into a chair in his living room and a pack of his fellow four-string banjo aficionados pile in with him. Some, like John Green, travel from as far away as Fiddletown, ...

Cynthia Sayer, top New York City four-string jazz banjo player, returns to Holyoke on Saturday, September 28th for the fourth time. This time, Sayer will bring Her Hot Swing Trio, including ...

Considered one of the top four-string banjoists in the world today, Cynthia Sayer is known for an eclectic repertoire not typical of banjo music. Sayer, who first performed at the Wistariahurst in ...

Most people would say, "A banjo is a banjo," but there are two separate worlds of banjo lovers separated by one thin string. Five-string pickers play bluegrass and folk music, and four-string ...

When it comes to female four-string banjo players, the list is not all that long. Cathy Reilly and Cynthia Sayer Spring come to mind, but a close friend of mine has always been called Queen of the ...

Cynthia Sayer and Terry Baucom have been named as the 2023 recipients of the Steve Martin Banjo Prize for Excellence in Banjo & Bluegrass, the annual award administered by The Freshgrass Foundation, ...

Buddy Griffin is waiting for the youth banjo band he directs to get the attention he feels it deserves. "When you say banjo, people think you don't have teeth," said Griffin, associate pastor of ...

To many friends and acquaintances in southern Minnesota, Lowell Schreyer was a retired journalist who played the banjo. In the “banjo world” however, Lowell Schreyer was a giant. He traveled the world ...

DANVILLE – A banjo player and a symphony orchestra – as Arte Johnson used to say on "Laugh In," ver-ee in-ter-es-ting. Buddy Wachter, a virtuoso banjo player, will join the Danville Symphony Orchestra ...

LIVERMORE — Jim Bottorff settles into a chair in his living room and a pack of his fellow four-string banjo aficionados pile in with him. Some, like John Green, travel from as far away as Fiddletown, ...