In 1963, when the folk-music trend made a young Greg Deering want to learn to play the banjo, his mother said no. But he was obsessed, desperate to create the sounds he had heard on a Kingston Trio ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Go behind the scenes with Our Native Daughters as they discuss the origins of their debut album and explore the power of the banjo as a distinctly ...

Native to Africa and popularized in America, the banjo has gone through major transformation and evolution, and its history of becoming a mainstream music instrument is quite fascinating.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with researcher Joe Johnson and musician Jake Blount about the new Library of Congress guide to African American banjo... The Library of Congress' latest addition is a guide ...