This year's Snuffy Jenkins Festival will be held Saturday at the Foundation Performing Arts Center, on the Isothermal Community College campus in Spindale, N.C. Bluegrass and old-time music will be ...

One of the things I like about chatting with musicians, especially ones I’m meeting for the first time, is that sometimes the conversations can rekindle my interest in specific music I haven’t ...

Jenkins, known among banjo pickers for popularizing the three-finger roll on the five-string banjo, died Sunday in Columbia, S.C., at age 81. The cause of death was not disclosed. Jenkins played ...

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1981 Festival of American Folklife, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. Permission to publish materials from the collection ...