African American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner produced numerous religious paintings during his early 20th-century career. His most recognizable piece, though, is one of only two he created portraying ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver musicians and aspiring musicians alike had the opportunity to learn guitar and the banjo during a lesson from an Ohio folk band at Wax Trax Records. Caamp is a bluegrass band ...

In the opening voice-over of The Librarian and the Banjo, banjo legend Béla Fleck says, “The truth of the banjo’s history is that it’s a really big story; it’s a really big American story — as ...

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