This episode of The String is a field report from the city that raised me in the 1970s and 80s and gave me my foundation in ...

banjo music] We met up with Enda Scahill at Studio ... by deep immersion in the American cousins of bluegrass and old time. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ I love the way that you play banjo.

Early American banjo music is Black music, developed by enslaved Africans and rooted in Black culture through the early 1800s ...

Banjo musician Nadia Ramlagam of Lexingon ... “Well, I’ve been playing old-time music for a couple of years and there are some old-time musicians in particular — Anna Roberts-Gevalt ...

“Those particular songs are bringing the idea of Black banjo and Black ... A lot of old cartoons would also feature old-time jazz with the banjo,” Flemons recalls. “So I got into both bluegrass and ...

The Confluence Creative Arts Center will showcase old-time tunes ... From there, the toe-tapping music will start with a showcase of regional banjo players, each bringing their own flavor to ...

It features a wide array of performances, from cabaret-style dances, flamenco shows, and old-time banjo music to elaborate theatrical plays and ballroom dancing. Highlights include the bustling ...

Festival of World Music includes performances by two student groups whose music is rooted in uniquely American traditions.

It is literally banjo and fiddle music ... get out there and hopefully raise up the whole idea of what old-time music is. Not many albums are recorded outdoors, of course. Is it a challenge ...

the spark that ignited popular discourse about a global pop megastar circumventing the gatekeepers of the country music industry, are a circling, syncopated old-time banjo figure. That part was ...

Now, Irish banjo players are everywhere in the trad music scene, and he's taught a ... a trad session every Wednesday and a Thursday old-time bluegrass session at 22:00 that can run until 02: ...