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A viral moment from Shaboozey and Megan Moroney at the American Music Awards has sparked debate online about country music's ...
Early American banjo music is Black music, developed by enslaved Africans and rooted in Black culture through the early 1800s ...
Dude (if I may), play your banjo. Nothing is more important than playing your banjo. There are plenty of hours in the day.
Foggy Mountain Spaceship played a beautifully hypnotic banjo cover of the classic Pink Floyd song "Set the Controls for the ...
Buck Trent, 85, a well-regarded banjo player, steel guitarist (among many instruments) and groundbreaking entrepreneur -- whose work influenced country music's 60's era traditional-to ...
In correspondent Greg Allen's story, Jatta describes how his three-stringed akonting resembled what he saw and heard from American country banjo players while he was studying in South Carolina.
Beyoncé's surprise new country album has kicked open the saloon doors to a new audience. While this may not be Beyoncé's first rodeo when it comes to country music, people are now exploring the ...
So this week, she talks to Black banjo players like Grammy nominee, Rhiannon Giddens about creating community and reclaiming an instrument that's historically already theirs. This episode was ...
The weather didn’t dampen the spirits of those involved in the event, however. Around 20 fiddlers, banjo players and one upright bass player gathered in groups of two, four and six to play together.