ANCHOR INTRO: The Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad says its ultimate purpose is to make the world more musical. KPBS arts reporter Beth Accomando says you can get your hands on an electric banjo and ...

Pharis and Jason Romero share one mic. Nearly three years ago, they stood on a stage just barely two feet off the dirt ground, harmonizing into that vintage-styled device. It’s the most ...

When asked the location of the single largest producer of banjos in the United States, one might be tempted to guess Tennessee or Kentucky. The correct answer, though, is here in Spring Valley.

It all started with the Kingston Trio. One day in 1963, a San Diego kid and his friends got their hands on an album by the popular folk group. Greg Deering, 12 at the time, recalls studying the ...

Over the years the banjo has been the butt of a lot of jokes and everyone is quick to make a Deliverance reference but when you get right down to it the banjo is fun to listen to. It's been said that ...

But Gilligan isn’t her only on-screen companion, either. Sanders has experimented with a rotating cast of characters — ...