![]() ![]() ![]() A trio made up of Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens, and Justin Robinson, the group have released several CDs on their own MusicMaker label and contributed four songs to the Atlantic Records soundtrack for The Great Debaters.Īs this traditional African-American string band music continues to challenge many assumptions about race and musical genre, it also lays claim to a great beat you can dance to. And the best-known young group to form out of that historic gathering was none other than the Carolina Chocolate Drops. ![]() What started in 2004 as a Yahoo online group called Black Banjo Players Then and Now burgeoned into a veritable movement after the first Black Banjo Players Conference was held in the spring of 2005. In fact, most recently there has been a resurgence of interest (verging on a full-blown trend) in black banjo and old time string band music. Banjos are not necessarily the first instrument that comes to mind when we think about black music, but the African origins of this guitar and drum hybrid are widely acknowledged. ![]()
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