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Rhiannon Giddens’ All-Star Roots Revue at the Bowl Has Steve Martin, Our Native Daughters and Others Covering the Full Banjo Spectrum, From Black Consciousness to Comedy ...

Of course, an official Juneteenth event would probably not have included Steve Martin, although Giddens made her position clear that everybody should be able to make a claim on the banjo now, however ...
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Steve Martin, banjo player, earns seventh No. 1 bluegrass album

Is there anything Steve Martin can’t do? The comedian-actor-playwright-banjo player has earned his seventh No. 1 on the bluegrass albums chart in the U.S. with Safe, Sensible and Sane, his ...
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Rhiannon Giddens’ All-Star Roots Revue at the Bowl Has Steve Martin, Our Native Daughters and Others Covering the Full Banjo Spectrum, From Black Consciousness to Comedy ...

That may not be an immediate rib-tickler for everyone, but it counts as one for anyone who has followed Giddens just enough to know that reclaiming the banjo as a Black instrument has been a mission ...