The loss in Aug. 2007 of the famed transplanted NH resident, Irish singer/songwriter and national folk hero of the Emerald Isle at 74, Tommy Makem, alerted me recently to a news photo of Tommy with ...

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Appraisal: Gibson RB-11 5-string Banjo, ca. 1936, from Vintage Charlotte. Watch Frederick W. Oster's appraisal of a Gibson RB-11 5-string banjo, ca. 1936, in Vintage Charlotte.

Cynthia Sayer is also an American Banjo Hall of Fame member and founding member of Woody Allen’s New Orleans Jazz Band.

Early American banjo music is Black music. The banjo was created by enslaved African Americans, and according to the Smithsonian Institute, up until the 1830s, the banjo was exclusively an African ...