“Bluegrass is very community-based,” says mandolinist Patrick Kerrigan Fitzsimons, one of the founders of the academy. “You don’t need fancy equipment. You just carry your instrument, sit in a circle ...

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The Art Association is turning 60 in 2026, celebrating that big anniversary by featuring some of its members. What started with a hand-ful of artists in 1966 who joined together to do art, talk art ...

While much has been written through the years about how Kansas came to be, much less has been penned about the Sunflower State’s musical origins.

When they performed together, Locke played banjo while West played a custom washboard instrument she created and named Ernie, after actor Ernest Borgnine. The instrument included bongos, cowbells and ...

SWIM campaigners are delighted that all Scots kids will now get free lessons — but the next challenge is keeping our pools afloat. In this month’s Budget, Shona Robison announced universal free ...

Florida lawmakers are considering bills to expand the state's swim lesson voucher program. The proposed expansion would make children aged 1 to 7 eligible for free swim classes. Florida currently ...

A new Banjo-Kazooie fan port is now available on PC, Mac, and Linux. Banjo: Recompiled adds widescreen support, higher framerates, better controls, mod support, and more. The recomp requires an ...

Early American banjo music is Black music. The banjo was created by enslaved African Americans, and according to the Smithsonian Institute, up until the 1830s, the banjo was exclusively an African ...

The Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots are the teams in Super Bowl LX. The matchup has been settling in my head for more than a day, and I still can't fully wrap my mind around it. Both the ...

Chris Williams and Kid Reverie release “Strawberry Moon,” a folk single shaped by memory, distance, and the soft gravity of moments that arrive and disappear almost at once. Featuring Kid Reverie ...

RED DOOR: The St. Tammany Art Association's new show, the "Renegade Artist Collective's Barranger Gallery Exhibition" by a collective of nationally and internationally renowned Louisiana-based artists ...