Tim Weed has heard all the banjo jokes -- the constant digs about the banjo in the movie Deliverance or the Beverly Hillbillies TV show. But a funny thing happens when Weed actually plays the ...
Early American banjo music is Black music. The banjo was created by enslaved African Americans, and according to the Smithsonian Institute, up until the 1830s, the banjo was exclusively an African ...
If one scene could sum up the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on entertainers, it’s in a YouTube video posted by veteran bluegrass musician Andy Thorn. Thorn is seen standing alone with banjo in hand, ...
A new generation of artists have brought African Americans back to the forefront of the banjo scene. Take, for example, Rhiannon Giddens, whom you can hear behind me. Black musicians have been a part ...
If one scene could sum up the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on entertainers, it’s in a YouTube video posted by veteran bluegrass musician Andy Thorn. Thorn is seen standing alone with banjo in hand, ...
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