BOONE — Rakish, featuring Boone native Maura Shawn Scanlin (fiddle, banjo, vocals) and Conor Hearn (guitar, vocals) will ...

Volunteers are needed at the FIRST Tech Challenge State Championship (Grades 7-12) March 7 in South Burlington, and the FIRST ...

The Wilkes Heritage Museum, located in Wilkesboro, has announced its inductees for the 2026 Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame, which includes a Watauga County native.

There’s some toe-tapping events slated for this week’s Island entertainment round-up and CHEK Arts & Entertainment producer Steve Grebanier has the scoop.

BBC Folk Awards Best Musician nominee Dan Walsh combines ‘virtuoso playing and winning songwriting’ (MORNING STAR). Describing what Dan does is no easy task but at the heart of it is British, Irish ...

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 ...

The Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons announced on December 15, 2025, that tickets are now available for the 16th Annual Maritime Performance Series scheduled for 2026. The series features four ...

For years, Banjo-Kazooie fans have been begging for something new in the long-dormant series. Outside of a one-off experimental platformer back in 2008, and a couple of HD re-releases in the 2010s, ...

Xbox and Rare haven't made a new Banjo-Kazooie in nearly 20 years, so these fans took matters into their own hands. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Back in 2020, folk musician Jake Blount launched into national awareness with the release of his debut album, “Spider Tales.” The project was, by some measures, a conventional interpretation of ...

(Left) Mac Traynham, a banjo player from Floyd County; Malcolm Smith, historian and banjo player from Carroll County, and Jason Phillips, a fiddler and computer programmer are creating a web site to ...