When Stuart Duncan decided to get serious about music, he wanted an instrument that would provide ample sonic sustain – unlike his father’s banjo or the acoustic guitar his mother strummed. Duncan had ...

PITTSFIELD -- A bluegrass band is coming to The Colonial soon, but it's not the type of band you might see at Mass MoCA's Fresh Grass. Although banjo specialist Noam Pikelny played at Fresh Grass last ...

“I’ll admit we did have a few problems with the law, but since they legalized a few things in Tennessee, the Soggy Bottom Boys are back in business” exclaimed Stuart Duncan, fiddler and founding ...

For the first time in nearly a decade, four string virtuosos — Yo-Yo Ma on cello, Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Edgar Meyer on bass, and Chris Thile on mandolin — are coming back together for the ...

Stuart Duncan and Noam Pikelny describe their music as "genre-proof," which is a lot easier to say than "innovative bluegrass/old-time/blues/folk/swing/jazz ...

Live performance from a group of celebrated string musicians, comprising cellist Yo-Yo Ma, fiddler Stuart Duncan, bassist Edgar Meyer and mandolist Chris Thile. The group, which came together to ...

His core group of bluegrass comrades, including mandolinist and fellow New Grass Revivalist Sam Bush, guitarist Tony Rice, fiddle player Stuart Duncan, bassist Mark Schatz and dobro player Jerry ...

Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Stuart Duncan and Edgar Meyer have delivered a remote performance for NPR’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert series. The ensemble performs and records together as Goat Rodeo and ...

The quartet, known colloquially as Goat Rodeo, jammed out from four different homes in this Tiny Desk quarantine performance. The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing ...