If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. There is no way to achieve that old-fashioned Appalachian ...

With a cookie tin, a broom handle, weedwhacker string and a little hardware, we ambitiously set to work. Master instrument crafts-men? Maybe not. But the akontings and banjos we built Saturday at the ...

Great Performances takes a look at performers for whom comedy is not enough: more five-string banjo, please. LA Times: As actors and musicians, do you find there’s anything at all that transfers ...

"My father was born with this instrument," Laemouahuma Daniel Jatta says. "This is part of our history." Jatta, 55, is from Gambia, a member of the Jola people. He's holding an akonting: a ...

The Black Banjo Reclamation Project aims to put banjos into the hands of everyday people. Paul Ruta Of all the melodic musical instruments in the world, perhaps none is more connected to the land it ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. William Boucher was a drum maker and ...