For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music scenes has ...

The nasty iconography of minstrel music may be one reason why black ... Colonial Williamsburg Foundation By the 20th century, the classic five-string banjo had faded from African-American culture ...

For 15 years now, LDR has essentially been a genre unto herself: a unique and borderline-illogical blending of obviously classic influences ... no matter what style of music she’s making ...

“A good folk music response to the troubles of the First ... The first taste of the album, “Work Is Work” is a banjo-heavy, bluegrass-inflected three-verse tune that finds Carlisle ...

Friends, family, and the music community deeply mourn his loss ... and learned a diversity of instruments including banjo and fiddle. His songs had a stark, strange quality that could be ...

grew up feeling as though blues music was “not for me.” But he had a great uncle whom he admired and visited often, a man who loved the classic blues of Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf.

For more than 35 years, Alison Krauss & Union Station have been a bluegrass institution, perfecting the classic American form led by Krauss ... a six time winner of the International Bluegrass Music ...

The tour is a celebration of the 40th anniversary of their classic album Rum ... (vocals / multiple instruments), Jordan O’Leary (banjo), Alfi’s Fiachra Meek (pipes/whistles), The Bad Seeds ...

The acts of minstrel and blackface appropriated the banjo, informing the rise ... Though this love ballad remains a timeless classic, the annals of country music history contain countless other ...

Though she was surrounded by music as a child—singing spirituals ... At age 8 she taught herself to play the banjo by borrowing her right-handed brother’s after he went to work.

banjo player Bela Fleck, bassist Edgar Meyer, percussionist Mickey Hart and The Beatles' George Harrison brought Indian classical music to an international audience, cementing his status as a ...

In the viral title track of ‘Buckle Bunny’, Adell deployed classic ... banjo has its origins in Africa, Black people weren’t necessarily involved in conversations surrounding country music.” ...