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The first time you hear Mei Semones, you’re likely to contort yourself into some weird shapes in an attempt to describe her music. My first pass, “Pat Metheny and Gilberto Gil start a Midwest emo band ...

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Singer-songwriter Leyla McCalla speaks with KNKX's John Kessler ahead of her April 12 performance with fellow banjo player Taj Mahal at UW's Meany Hall.

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Explore their origins, unique sounds, and the last musicians keeping them ... Once a staple among royal bards and folk musicians, this primitive bowed string instrument survives in remote pockets of ...

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The jam is an opportunity for players of all stringed instruments to get together and “sup, sip and strum” together, the release states. Players of all levels and all varieties of stringed ...