The Carolina Chocolate Drops, who perform old-time string-band music, play a sold-out show with Crooked Still tonight at Sanders Theatre.
(Bruce Deboer)
Fiddling with a vanishing tradition
String band calls on its black heritage
The Carolina Chocolate Drops, who perform old-time string-band music, play a sold-out show with Crooked Still tonight at Sanders Theatre.
(Bruce Deboer)
When the Carolina Chocolate Drops perform for schoolchildren, they always ask the kids where they think the banjo comes from, and they always get the same answer: Texas. Band member Dom Flemons guesses that's because the only place those boys and girls would have ever seen a banjo is in a bluegrass band, and the musician playing it was likely ... (Full article: 846 words)
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