The Carolina Chocolate Drops are featured on the latest episode of PRI's Studio 360 with Kurt Anderson. The show caught up with the trio when they "returned as stars" to the site of their first meeting, the Black Banjo Gathering, and delves into the history of that gathering's focal instrument, the banjo. The band performs two sets at the Bonnaroo festival next week.
The Carolina Chocolate Drops are featured on the latest episode of the PRI program Studio 360 with Kurt Anderson. Studio 360 contributor Alana Harper caught up with the trio when they "returned as stars" to the site of their first meeting, the Black Banjo Gathering in Boone, North Carolina, earlier this year, and delves into the history of that gathering's focal instrument, the banjo, its American and African roots, and the role race has played throughout.
You can hear the segment and the complete episode at studio360.org and read more about the band and the piece at pri.org.
The Carolina Chocolate Drops will perform two sets at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, next Friday, June 11, both sets following label mates Punch Brothers: at That Tent at 1:45 PM and on the Sonic Stage at 4 PM. For more information, visit bonnaroo.com.
For more information on all the band's upcoming performances with links to purchase tickets, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour. To pick up a copy of the Drops' Nonesuch debut, Genuine Negro Jig, with the complete album plus seven exclusive live bonus tracks included as high-quality MP3s, head to the Nonesuch Store.
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