Blog February 26, 2021
Follow Up With Our Native Daughters: Panel Discussion and Documentary
If last week’s program, “The Black History of the Banjo,”
whetted your appetite for more great music and more insights from the
artists, we’ve got some good news for you. CMT and the Smithsonian
Channel are streaming a virtual panel discussion with Rhiannon
Giddens, Amythyst Kiah and Allison Russell of Our Native Daughters,
Fri., Feb. 26 at noon ET, occasioned by the new documentary on the
band and their album.
Tune in via
Smithsonian
Channel’s YouTube page or CMT’s
Facebook page.
The documentary airs on CMT at noon ET tomorrow, Feb. 26, but it’s also available on the Smithsonian Channel and on YouTube, which is to say, right here:
Related Audio Programs
Afropop Classic February 15, 2024
We trace the history of this most American of instruments from its ancestors in West Africa through the Caribbean and American South and into the present, as a new generation of Black women artists reclaim the banjo as their own. Rhiannon Giddens, Bassekou Kouyate, Bela Fleck and more talk claw-hammers, trad jazz, Appalachian folk, African ancestors and the on-going story of American music, which would be woefully incomplete without a Black history of the banjo.
