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Hannah Mayree reclaims the banjo’s Black roots

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The ancestors don’t wait at the door. They gather in close and whisper. They move and the room speaks. Nathaniel Jenkins felt them in the music. “When I closed my eyes, I could feel my ancestors dancing around me in a circle,” Jenkins said, “and there was just so much love in that moment.” That […]

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