Banjo scholar and musician Dom Flemons performs at Swallow Hill in Denver and Boulder's Chautauqua Community House, Nov. 9-10 ...

Gospel music is rooted in spirituals, blues, shape-note songs ... Ralph Stanley, the banjo player and tenor singer from McClure, Virginia, who preserves the haunting, pinch-throat style of ...

It developed out of folk music, spiritual songs and work songs. The blues would have been originally performed by a solo singer accompanied by guitar or banjo. The lyrics of a blues song would be ...

Ragging style was applied by the popular virtuoso banjo players, in minstrel show music, in string bands ... and vaudeville acts where mainstay blues performers such as Ma Rainey, Mamie Smith ...