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Laurelyn Dossett’s Gathering

From the Green Room in the basement of Meymandi Concert Hall in Raleigh, a cascade of banjo notes can be heard trailing down the hallway from the dressing room shared by Joe Newberry and Mike Compton. Soon, the virtuosic voice of Rhiannon Giddens Laffan — classically trained but steeped in traditional music practices — fills the air with operatic scales.
YES! Weekly  |  Jordan Green  |  12-03-2011  |  Music

Further Explorations

Banjo innovator Bela Fleck -- an eight-time Grammy winner and 21-time nominee in many different categories -- is still crankin' out tunes.
Charleston City Paper  |  T. Ballard Lesemann  |  03-08-2006  |  Profiles & Interviews

Rec-Room Rambler

Hobart Smith knew that these sessions proved one thing: He shouldn't have waited so long to commit that banjo to tape.
Washington City Paper  |  Jason Cherkis  |  11-10-2005  |  Reviews

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