The country music world is mourning the loss of legendary banjo player and guitarist Buck Trent. Trent, 85, died Monday according to multiple reports. Trent may be best known for his role on the ...

Béla Fleck is often considered the world’s greatest banjo player. The sixteen-time Grammy winner has earned awards under the headings of jazz, world music, classical, folk, bluegrass, pop instrumental ...

Banjo player and guitarist Buck Trent, a two-time CMA instrumental group of the year winner and a prominent member of the cast of the variety show Hee Haw, died on Monday (Oct. 9) in Branson, Missouri ...

J.D. Crowe, a banjo player who helped define the instrument for generations of bluegrass fans, died Friday, his family announced on Facebook. “This morning at around 3 a.m,, our dad, JD Crowe, went ...

Banjo player Buck Trent, who was part of the cast of the country music variety show “Hee Haw” and performed on Dolly Parton’s albums, died Monday. He was 85. The news of Trent’s death was shared in a ...

Steve Martin has played the banjo for nearly 60 years now. The instrument was a major part of his early stand-up comedy routines, and after he got more serious about it in the past two decades, his ...

It’s one of the strangest stories in music: Not long after recording the 1978 album Lord, Don’t Let Me Die in a Cheap Motel, country duo Banjo and Sullivan disappeared from the infamous Kahiki Palms ...