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Banjo has always been about community. Join ours and explore great tunes, learn the instruments’ African and Post-African heritage, its worldwide influence, and have fun playing together with like-minded folks.

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Súle tours, lectures, and does workshops nationwide and internationally. In affiliation with the Black Banjo Reclamation Project, we have live get-togethers from Brooklyn to L.A.. as well as occasional virtual sessions.

2/6, 2/13, & 2/20

U.S. HISTORY in AfrAm SONG: Tunes, Tales, & Tidings

Go forward in wisdom, understanding where we're from. Let's look at major shifts in U.S. culture, as shared by AfrAm composers, known and unknown. Three weeks of sing- and play-along fun!

• $125 ($112.50 donor registration)
• Saturdays in February 2/6, 2/13, 2/20 · (5:00 PM – 5:45 PM)

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2/16

The Spirit of Spirituals: Famous and Stirring Songs

People the world over express Divine Devotion by creating blessed sounds, blending their energies, and hearts to help bridge that sometimes narrow, sometimes great divide between Human and Divine.

• gratis -- sponsored by AZ Humanities
• Tuesday, February 16, 2021 · (4:00 PM – 5:00 PM)

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2/21

Funky Banjo Workshop

To celebrate the release of his new book and video, Funky Banjo, Súle Greg Wilson offers a one-off examination of the banjo in African American, Caribbean, and African Traditions.

• $35 ($30 members)
• Sunday, February 21, 2021 · (1:00 PM – 1:45 PM)share​

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2/23

Minstrel Tambo: One

Drums were outlawed for Africans in the Colonies cum U.S. Instead, they used banjos, tap danced, and tambourines--inspiration for blackface minstrelsy. Learn the tenets, techniques and tales!

• $40
• Saturday, January 23, 2021, 5:00-5:30 p.m. AZ time

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