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We Banjo 3

By Christine Kinealy, Contributor
December / January 2020

December 1, 2019 by 2 Comments

The band from Galway plays a blend of traditional Irish, old-time, and bluegrass music they call Celtgrass.The banjo has a long, contested and even controversial history. Musicologists now generally agree that an early form of the instrument was first brought to America by enslaved people from West Africa. It was possibly an akonting, a three-stringed instrument with a long … [Read more...] about We Banjo 3

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