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DENVER (KDVR) — Denver musicians and aspiring musicians alike had the opportunity to learn guitar and the banjo during a lesson from an Ohio folk band at Wax Trax Records. Caamp is a bluegrass band ...

Learn a quick-start method to playing the banjo called up-picking, an old-fashioned technique that emphasizes melody and requires no musical experience or note reading. Up-picking is a great way to ...

Early American banjo music is Black music. The banjo was created by enslaved African Americans, and according to the Smithsonian Institute, up until the 1830s, the banjo was exclusively an African ...