Chris Prieto’s only prior experience with a musical instrument was playing saxophone in the fifth grade. After becoming enthralled by old-time and country roots music a decade ago, Prieto decided to ...

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 ...

The Handshouse Studio in Norwell recently hosted a five-day workshop, similar to an art history class, where students learned about the early American gourd banjo and its role in the social, economic ...

When he took the stage at Chapel Hill’s Nightlight a few weeks ago, Zeke Graves didn’t draw much from the moody electronica he crafts as Datahata or from the spectral electric guitar improvisations ...

The histories of gourds and humans intertwine across thousands of years and eight world regions. People loved the hard-shelled gourd before they knew how to grow it, and today you don’t have to ...