Fiddler Joe Thompson has been gone for more than a decade, since passing in 2012 at age 93. But his musical legacy remains very much alive in the world, thanks to his understudies – most notably the ...

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Twenty years after the Carolina Chocolate Drops emerged from the Black Banjo Gathering in Boone, North Carolina, two of its founding members get together once more for a collection that comes quite ...

Grammy- and Pulitzer Prize-winner Rhiannon Giddens tells the story of working class people through her music — one she describes on her last solo album in 2023, “You’re the One,” as “American” music, ...

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That may not be an immediate rib-tickler for everyone, but it counts as one for anyone who has followed Giddens just enough to know that reclaiming the banjo as a Black instrument has been a mission ...

There was a good share of on-stage comedy happening at Rhiannon Giddens’ all-star roots music night Wednesday at the Hollywood Bowl. That much was assured, with Ed Helms hosting the evening, and with ...

Welcome to my porch, the eclectic singer-songwriter Rhiannon Giddens announced at the start of American Tunes, a trip through the past and present of American roots music she’d created for the ...