1. Decorate your toilet paper roll, then tear a piece off a piece of paper big enough to cover the end. Secure the paper towel with a rubber band. 2. Pour some rice or dry beans into the roll. You ...

Start tuning your instrument and reading tablature to learn beginner banjo songs and roll this easy bluegrass banjo chord song. So you always wanted to play bluegrass banjo, eh? You picked up a nice ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Terry Wyatt/Getty Image In this lesson, I’d like to delve deeper into what I feel are the ...

Change is a good thing. Comfort, routine, the same thoughts with each passing year: all of it, it’s overrated. Take this lesson from a popular, and growing ever more popular British folk rock band: ...

Bluegrass is enjoying an unexpected boom in popularity this year, thanks to the platinum-plus success of the soundtrack for “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” The paradox is that this revival is being ...

CROTON-ON-HUDSON — An E-Bay auction of folk icon Pete Seeger’s banjo head was abruptly stopped Friday because his family feared it going into a private collection. The banjo head, the body of the ...