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• ‟ People seem ready for a more in-depth idea of folk music, culture and history.

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• ‟ Know thy history. Let it horrify you; let it inspire you.

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• ‟ Anybody who thinks the lute just came out of a vacuum doesn't know the history.

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• ‟ I'll talk about the banjo all day long and the history of minstrel shows.

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• ‟ Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American music - and then, through that, American history.

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• ‟ History is my biggest teacher.

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• ‟ My work as a whole is about excavating and shining a light on pieces of history that not only need to be seen and heard, but that can also add to the conversation about what's going on now.

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• ‟ In order to understand the history of the banjo, and the history of bluegrass music, we need to move beyond the narrative we've inherited, beyond generalizations that bluegrass is mostly derived from a Scotch-Irish tradition with influences from Africa. It is actually a complex Creole music that comes from multiple cultures.

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• ‟ The truth, the real history, is way more interesting and representative of what America actually is.

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