SILVERTHORNE – Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I’ll show you A-flat minor.Just recycling one of the many bluegrass jokes on the Colorado Bluegrass Music Society’s Web site in honor of ...

Steve Martin brought his banjo – banjos, actually, for he had at least five on stage – to the Hollywood Bowl on Wednesday, and by now that’s not such an odd thing to write or read about the comedian, ...

We don’t like change. We don’t like evolution, slow growth, or new surprises. Once we’ve figured something out, it’s easier if it just stays as it was when we got to know it, thank you very much. And ...

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Just off Interstate 79 in Clarksburg, W.Va., local musicians gather at a Hardee’s fast-food restaurant to play bluegrass. Photo: John W. Miller/The Wall Street Journal CLARKSBURG, W.Va.—How many banjo ...