SARATOGA SPRINGS >> The Banjo Man has defied the odds for 86 years. Coming from a poor upbringing in Jamaica, raising nine children and taking care of his own brothers and sisters as a young man and ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS >> Saratoga’s beloved “Banjo Man” has said goodbye. According to his children and friends, Cecil Myrie, 86, passed away Tuesday morning after a battle with multiple myeloma cancer.

The Banjo Man’s streak of playing at 49er games will continue. He’ll just have to travel farther south to keep it going. Fairfax’s Stacy Samuels has been wearing the propeller hat, gold t-shirt and ...

MARIN COUNTY — The Banjo Man is missing his banjo. Stacy Samuels, the beanie-wearing Banjo Man who fires up crowds at San Francisco 49ers and Oakland A’s home games by picking a lively “Foggy Mountain ...

Béla Fleck, the musician who brought the banjo from bluegrass to pop and back again, will perform at The Shedd on Monday, Nov. 20, on his As We Speak tour with Zakir Hussain on the tabla, Edgar Meyer ...

The national anthem at Saturday's 49ers-Packers playoff game will be followed by the faint tinkling of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" on banjo, and a Candlestick Park tradition will notch its 30th year.

Arthur Pruneau was just 12 years old when he learned how to play the ukulele. By 15, he was an accomplished musician and opened his first teaching studio, using money he earned playing the guitar and ...

MARIN COUNTY — The Banjo Man is missing his banjo. Stacy Samuels, the beanie-wearing Banjo Man who fires up crowds at San Francisco 49ers and Oakland A’s home games by picking a lively “Foggy Mountain ...