Today we hear from Don Vappie of the Creole Jazz Serenaders, playing the banjo and singing, "Careless Love." ...

banjo, guitar, Cajun and Creole accordion. I put this band together thinking about the history of America, and the history of white and Black working-class cultural exchange. But also, this is my ...

Don Vappie, musician/composer/educator, is the 2021 Steve Martin Banjo Prize Winner and the Banjo Hall of Fame inductee, in September 2022. In addition, he has received awards for his contributions to ...

He even performed banjo for the newly-released ... In playing with the Creole Jazz Serenaders, Vappie said he is showing people a crucial part of history. To Vappie, there’s a certain genius ...

Detroit grew up downriver, living four blocks from Fats Domino, and was greatly influenced by the late Creole banjo and guitar player, Danny Barker. He created a festival in his memory.

Creole people’ is so misunderstood and misrepresented ... collaboration made note of Vappie’s “briskly strummed banjo.” Banjo wasn’t his first instrument, but it’s probably his ...

As she plucks at the banjo and sings in Creole, a dancer moves to the music and a video projection plays footage of Haitian life and culture. McCalla — a renaissance woman of string instruments ...