Banjo, guitar and Finnish folk: The musical world of St. Cloud's Kyle Gray Young
St. Cloud musician Kyle Gray Young is gaining traction across Minnesota as he brings his passion for banjo to the Granite ...
“I certainly didn’t do it for the money”: Rhiannon Giddens on playing banjo on Texas Hold ‘Em
Rhiannon Giddens, the musician who contributed banjo on Beyonce’s huge 2024 hit Texas Hold ‘Em has been talking about her ...
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Clair McFarland: Don't Harass Your Banjo Player
Feisty played ‘Joy to the World.’ Even with that banjo being just a pan, a neck, five strings and some invisible ...
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Who is Rhiannon Giddens? Banjo player who worked on Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter feels conflicted over her contribution
Rhiannon Giddens is a renowned banjo player and folk artist who played on Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter but has conflicting ...
Rutland Herald13d
‘Bluegrass as I hear it and play it’: Banjo virtuoso Noam Pikelny brings ‘dream team’ to ‘magical room’
Noam Pikelny won’t be far from home when the renowned banjo maestro — a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning acoustic ...
Rhiannon Giddens Says She Felt She Had To ‘Compromise’ In Order To Play On Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’
However, as Cowboy Carter’s one-year anniversary approaches, Giddens remains conflicted about her contribution (the dazzling ...
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Leyla McCalla brings her banjo and unique musical mixture to Seattle
Singer-songwriter Leyla McCalla speaks with KNKX's John Kessler ahead of her April 12 performance with fellow banjo player Taj Mahal at UW's Meany Hall.
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Rhiannon Giddens Has Complicated Feelings About Playing on ‘Cowboy Carter’
When Beyoncé teased her country-tinged album Cowboy Carter last February, the first sound anyone heard was Rhiannon Giddens’ banjo ... her mission-oriented playing into the A-list blockbuster ...
Rhiannon Giddens Has Complicated Feelings About Playing on ‘Cowboy Carter'
A year since the release of Cowboy Carter, Giddens shared some of her complicated feelings about what it meant to introduce her mission-oriented playing into the A-list blockbuster world of such an ...