African American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner produced numerous religious paintings during his early 20th-century career. His most recognizable piece, though, is one of only two he created portraying ...

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DENVER (KDVR) — Denver musicians and aspiring musicians alike had the opportunity to learn guitar and the banjo during a lesson from an Ohio folk band at Wax Trax Records. Caamp is a bluegrass band ...

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Deep dives into physics topic such as driving point impedance, a part of electrical engineering, aren't the first things that come to mind when most think about the bluegrass banjo. But that's exactly ...

Did you hear the one about the banjo player who got all the gigs? Well, it’s no joke, the banjo is back, and it couldn’t be more popular. A mainstay of trad jazz, bluegrass and folk, the banjo’s ...

"Picturing the Banjo accompanies an exhibition of the same name organized by the Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, and held at the Corcoran ...

This summer marks the 40th anniversary of the screen adaptation of James Dickey’s Deliverance, as famous for its Grammy Award-winning instrumental song “Dueling Banjos” as its unsettling “bet you can ...