Parker has been trying to find her place in the banjo world. So this week, she talks to Black banjo players like Grammy nominee, Rhiannon Giddens about creating community and reclaiming an instrument ...

Screen cap from Pinecone’s concert video. L-R: Jerron Paxton, Kaia Kater and Dom Flemons"; Young banjo players Jerron Paxton and Kaia Kater hail from places that are pretty far removed from the ...

It’s easy to pick up the style but difficult to master – but you don’t have to be a master to participate.” For Ingham, clawhammer banjo grows in interest in what he calls the post-traditional age and ...

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Dale Webber once thought he wanted to play the guitar. Then, one night in 1963, he stepped into an Oklahoma City nightclub and heard someone playing the banjo. "That's what I had been looking for," ...