Here, I move from a low G root note to an aggressively snapped and ... Another of my favorite fingerpicking techniques is the “banjo roll,” which involves successively picking three adjacent ...

"I watched the program and saw the modern banjo being used. And the sound just sounded like my father's akonting." That experience put Jatta on a journey to explore the banjo's connections with ...

appropriated object and trying to re-root an extinguished tradition in the African American community.” The story of the banjo goes back centuries, to West Africa, where folk lute instruments ...

And the banjo, an instrument often associated with American Appalachian bluegrass music, has an overlooked cultural identity of its own — rooted in Africa, where a traditional instrument with a ...

"I would get records by Earl Scruggs. ... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. [I] learned how to play that way," he said. "I persevered. There was a book written by ...

Zhangjiakou (China) (AFP) – Banjo-playing Australian snowboarder Scotty James is ready to hit the high notes at the Beijing Olympics but he will have to be on song to beat a strong halfpipe field.