Interestingly enough, all those players played the long neck 5-string Vega banjo like Makem did. The long neck evolved through Pete Seeger and his desire to change keys easily so three extra frets ...

What the banjo is not in this exhibit is fun. It is an object of reverence, certainly, in George Fuller’s 1876 canvas “The Banjo Player,” where you can feel the meditative concentration on ...

TRAY WELLINGTON KNOWS that many will take the title of his 2022 album, “Black Banjo,” as an oxymoron.The banjo, and with it an entire body of folk-based music, is now so thoroughly associated ...

Banjo player, folk music aficionado and actor/comedian Billy Connolly once described The Dubliners as “folk music’s Rolling Stones”. If that’s the case, then The Pogues were its Sex ...

You don’t generally see a lot of black banjo players. You know, the banjo is an African-derived instrument. It started as a gourd-based instrument that was brought over back in slavery days, and ...

But for Jatta and other banjo scholars, most convincing is how the akonting is played. Players use the index finger to strike down on one of the long strings, and the thumb sounds the akonting's ...

He also developed the Folk Art Museum in Sugar Grove, North Carolina and continued to host MerleFest. In 1997 he received the National Medal of the Arts from President Clinton and in 2004 was ...

RogerSprung,influential banjo player from Newtown who revived folk music in 1940s, dies at 92 Journal Inquirer, Manchester, Conn. Sat, July 29, 2023 at 3:08 PM UTC ...

For over a decade Abigail Washburn, a singer-songwriter and clawhammer banjo player, knew she wanted to help improve Chinese-American relations. She just never thought she'd be doing it through song.

It was voted Folk Album of the Year in a Melody Maker poll – but shortly after it was released Palmer – "a true rebel who didn't care a fig for my ambitions," noted Boyd – left the band to ...

Ireland – The conference room at the Old Ground Hotel was crowded with newly assembled musicians and traveling tourists - and 17-year-old musician Flynn Whitmore was a bit nervous. One of the ...