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 ...

Pop superstar Beyoncé released "Texas Hold 'Em" a few weeks ago and it features an instrument that she had never emphasized before. This hit song, on her new (and hugely popular) Cowboy Carter album, ...

The Share America Foundation, Inc. announced its third 2025 Pearl and Floyd Franks Scholarship winner in LaFayette, Ga. The scholarship honors students excelling in the Appalachian musical arts. Pearl ...

Banjo player Béla Fleck will join Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to play Gershwin’s cinematic composition, plus one of Fleck’s original concertos. On June 11, Béla Fleck will perform his banjo-centric ...

Stewart Universal Favorite Custom Banjo, ca. 1890. The neck is made from cherry, and the instrument’s shell is made from maple. The heel plate is ebony. The tuning pegs and head, ivory tailpiece and ...

Twenty years ago, the old-time string band Carolina Chocolate Drops turned heads and wowed audiences. They were young. They were Black. And with their fiddles and banjos, they launched a movement that ...

SAN DIEGO — If your goal in life is to make the banjo cool again, winning a Grammy Award and teaming up with actor Steve Martin are two good ways to go. In this Zevely Zone, I went to La Jolla to ...

Sounding Africa -- The first African instrument -- Three leaves -- The sound of freedom -- The banjo meets blackface -- Rings like silver, shines like gold -- Black banjo -- Sounding America siris_sil ...