A remote Scottish island, a crumbling mansion and two Australian dreamers: Banjo & Ro’s Grand Island Hotel follows 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 ...
A wood-burning stove is simmering in Tom Cussen’s workshop as he works on a 1930s Gibson tenor banjo. “It was in rag order when it got here,” says Cussen, whose business, Clareen Banjos, has been ...
The Lowest Pair is an American folk duo made up of Kendl Winter and Palmer T. Lee, known for their intertwined vocal ...
Phoebe Sanders' traditional “jig doll is named Gilligan, after the 1960s sitcom 'Gilligan’s Island' " Phoebe Sanders Phoebe Sanders has gone viral for her banjo performances featuring a custom-made ...
"My father was born with this instrument," Laemouahuma Daniel Jatta says. "This is part of our history." Jatta, 55, is from Gambia, a member of the Jola people. He's holding an akonting: a ...