Julian’s late-summer music festival will return to its pickin’ and fiddlin’ roots this weekend. Organizers are bringing back a banjo- and fiddle- playing contest, which was dropped several years ago.

Born on August 16, 1939, in New York City, Weissberg was a bluegrass musician from an early age, having seen Pete Seeger play at his school in Greenwich Village, and went on to attend the Juilliard ...

ERIC Weissberg, who has died aged 80 from complications related to Alzheimer’s disease, was a bluegrass musician who was brought to pop prominence through his banjo playing on the instrumental Dueling ...

Arthur Smith, the multi-instrumentalist and composer perhaps best known for 'Dueling Banjos,' has passed away at the age of 93. The Charlotte Observer reports that Smith died at his home in Charlotte, ...

(CBS) - The young Mizzone brothers who comprise the Sleepy Man Banjo Boys are back with more of their amazing music stylings. This time they're playing Eric Weissberg's classic "Dueling Banjos". Take ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Arthur Smith, a trailblazing guitarist and banjoist who wrote and recorded “Guitar Boogie” and “Dueling Banjos,” the latter heard in the ...

Eric Weissberg, who arranged, played banjo on and won a Grammy for “Dueling Banjos,” from the 1972 movie Deliverance, died Sunday of Alzheimer’s disease complications. He was 80. His son, Will ...