Category: Banjo

There’s a ghost in this little banjo

In addition to her grandmother, Dora Mae reluctantly admitted that her other banjo muse came to her in the form of her “haunted banjo.”

Henry Reed ‘s tunes are now in wide circulation among younger American fiddlers. Perhaps the most widely circulated is “Over the Waterfall.”

Samantha Bumgarner, in April 1924, was probably the first Appalachian banjo player of either sex to cut a commercial record.

Robert Winans, co-curator of a Baltimore Museum of Industry exhibition on the early banjo, explores how it moved from Africa into Appalachia.

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