The loss in Aug. 2007 of the famed transplanted NH resident, Irish singer/songwriter and national folk hero of the Emerald Isle at 74, Tommy Makem, alerted me recently to a news photo of Tommy with ...

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Appraisal: Gibson RB-11 5-string Banjo, ca. 1936, from Vintage Charlotte. Watch Frederick W. Oster's appraisal of a Gibson RB-11 5-string banjo, ca. 1936, in Vintage Charlotte.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. William Boucher was a drum maker and ...

"You can't buy a persona. You can either make it up or you can be it," states Keith Richards in the upcoming documentary, Keith Richards: Under the Influence, which gets its world premiere at the ...

Multi-Grammy award winner and banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck understands the power of the pick, but he may have underestimated the power of the bow. The premiere banjo player whose previous work spans ...

LOWELL — Some things never change — at least when it comes to the annual Banjo and Fiddle Contests the Saturday after Labor Day on the lush lawn and vine-entwined stage of Boarding House Park. It has ...

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, ...