STRING THEORY: “In retrospect, when I look back on my life, I understand there had always been a passion for banjo music,” says Mike Savino of Tall Tall Trees. As a solo act, he's taken that ...

‘YESSUH,’ said Captain Bob Pennybacker, ‘at the time this little skirmish was fought, it rated more newspaper space than Gettysburg. Believe it or not, right here was the end of the most darin’ ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS >> Saratoga’s beloved “Banjo Man” has said goodbye. According to his children and friends, Cecil Myrie, 86, passed away Tuesday morning after a battle with multiple myeloma cancer.

MARIN COUNTY — The Banjo Man is missing his banjo. Stacy Samuels, the beanie-wearing Banjo Man who fires up crowds at San Francisco 49ers and Oakland A’s home games by picking a lively “Foggy Mountain ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS >> The Banjo Man has defied the odds for 86 years. Coming from a poor upbringing in Jamaica, raising nine children and taking care of his own brothers and sisters as a young man and ...

WEST GROVE >> The kids who stopped by the Avon Grove Library on Saturday to mark the end of the summer reading program ostensibly heard tales from a railroad engineer character. But the guy in the old ...

The national anthem at Saturday's 49ers-Packers playoff game will be followed by the faint tinkling of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" on banjo, and a Candlestick Park tradition will notch its 30th year.

After 50 years of strumming, he and his band won bluegrass' top award. Oct. 7, 2011 — -- From the early days as a "Saturday Night Live" guest host to his film career, Steve Martin's life has been ...

Arthur Pruneau was just 12 years old when he learned how to play the ukulele. By 15, he was an accomplished musician and opened his first teaching studio, using money he earned playing the guitar and ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Old Man Luedecke is one of Canada's most beloved folk musicians. The two-time Juno winner became ...

Béla Fleck, the musician who brought the banjo from bluegrass to pop and back again, will perform at The Shedd on Monday, Nov. 20, on his As We Speak tour with Zakir Hussain on the tabla, Edgar Meyer ...

MARIN COUNTY — The Banjo Man is missing his banjo. Stacy Samuels, the beanie-wearing Banjo Man who fires up crowds at San Francisco 49ers and Oakland A’s home games by picking a lively “Foggy Mountain ...