DETROIT -- Wade Mainer, a country music pioneer who is credited with inventing the two-finger banjo picking style that paved the way for the bluegrass era, has died. He was 104. Mainer died at his ...

Wade Mainer, a country music pioneer who is credited with inventing the two-finger banjo picking style that paved the way for the Bluegrass era, has died. He was 104. Mainer died at his home in Flint ...

The pandemic has shut down most of the summer music festivals. But that did not stop two banjo players from organizing an online banjo contest. That's because social distancing is the polar opposite ...