Folk singer Willi Carlisle plays banjo, fiddle and guitar at the Mile of Music festival. Folk singer-songwriter Willi Carlisle performs live at the 2024 Mile of Music festival. He rotates playing the ...
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 ...
Beyonce’s hit “Texas Hold ’Em” opens with a beat seldom heard on hip-hop tracks: the unmistakable clip-clop of a four-stringed clawhammer banjo. It comes via folk icon Rhiannon Giddens, who was ...