Woww this was a healing experience! Just beautiful! 💚✨

Beautiful! Thanks!

🎶🌹👑🌹🎶 thanks for sharing Madame 👍🏾

I feel the same about blues

I enjoyed your channel thanks for sharing 😊

Brilliant, Wow... that's some powerful stuff. Music is a very Powerful and it is inclusive. It is a unifying force . I respect your opinions. The music is important to human society. We have to remember that Indentured Servants there descendants were exposed to Africans more closely, as there were many and frankly we're not much better off than the Blacks . The music that developed in time was not what is recognized as classical European Music it is because of their exposure to the Africans and the Africans exposure to the Europeans. That upper class among the European looked downed on their own lower class. So that there was an unfortunate distinction even among themselves which they called " Trash and Hillbilly" and at the same time Theater and the markings of gentile society were absent in much of America. So the hybrid expressions developed musically. It's just Music ,all instruments come from some where, The modern Saxophone, Trumpet and Piano all symbols of assimilation, and entrance into a new time post civil war,. The Banjo unfortunately was used a not only a symbol of "Jazz" but of Black folk,, today the Young folk call it Hip Hop, and most Young folk of Al Races and Ethnicities are familiar with the music of the Black Ghetto around the world, and this is partly the story of the popularity of the Instrument. The mean spirited BlackFaced actors of the early theater in America was part of a People in denial of their Brutality and inhumanity towards others . I love Your Music...the Banjo is the Pegasus of the Aquarium Age. No matter who plays it. All instruments originated somewhere,😅

Powerful voice!

Tasteful .

What a voice .. queen!

Love this!

I think the black v white thing is a simplistic view of the world that plays into the hands of racists and those who seek dominance. One of the reasons why a lot of white folks have appropriated/borrowed/adapted black music is because they feel a connection with the culture and a disconnection with their own. The idea of getting back to an original, pure and undiluted culture is also a bit of a fantasy, that plays into the hands of fascists. Let's be careful what we wish for

This is real and beautiful music.

Uauuu

I'm loving U

i did like banjos, u are the 2nd to change my ❤

This is beautiful!!

Appreciate the ownership/performance of this music from the culture from which it originated

Nice tune. I like your style. But I wasnt able to understand words...voice too soft to counter balance the loud banjo.

glad I found your music!

Hi! I appreciate your videos and yes you are correct that the banjo is and will always be your BIRTHRIGHT- much like most of our contemporary artists owe it to the Black foremothers and forefathers of music! And now BEYONCÉ dominating the country music scene with the multi talented Rhiannon Giddens on banjo ! Slavery stole so much. Culture, language, lives. My ancestors were at one time shoulder to shoulder with the Blacks until the Irish “became” white. I see my Black brothers and sisters still trying to show the masses their lives matter and have value. Still trying to show us their masters of science, the arts, inventors, and the barriers that still exist! My neighbors, my loved ones. Still in 2024 - THIS is how far we have come? And what of the rest of the world? Chaos, slavery, sex trafficking, mass deception and all kinds of horror. Children climbing down hand dug tunnels to mine for cobalt. For our laptops, cellphones, and electric cars. Hey, it’s our world. There does remains a connection and great love that exists between the blacks and the Irish that can still be found: - tap dancing - Irish influence in the Carribean particularly in Montserrat. -AfroCelts -more Blacks, more dogs, more Irish. We also have some beautiful and talented Black Irish dancing champions. Keeping the spirit alive! Serious change does require furious dancing! We are stronger together! It’s the SPIRIT inside us! Music has a way of bringing people together to learn and KNOW! I totally agree - Time for a change with this long standing power structure. Based on the falsehood of this “super white” guy stuff these colonizers invented so long ago!! They even taught us to believe Jesus was white! Wait what??? A lot of pale kin do need an education. Truth. Re- education I should say. If I knew how to play the banjo I’d stand shoulder to shoulder with you - if you let me.

SoooooGooood

Old white guy here with implicit biases awareness. I disagree with nothing said here. The only point I wish to make is the historic universal issue of human domination of other humans. No place in history is excepted from this strange biological drive. The patterns described here are historic ills of civilization. This is not to excuse behavior but an attempt to hope to rise above it. Other less compassionate groups view this as weakness to be violently exploited. Current domestic politics follow the same historic patterns. These information episodes are critical to maintain a balance. The banjo is an interesting example. The concept and origin is lost in the fog of history. Sound making using available materials is primal. I like the current renewal of historic gourd fretless string instruments. Play on, please.

absolutely love this to my core. so lovely!

Well played Hannah, thanks.

Beautiful, lilting, percussive, simply excellent

"promo sm" 😡

Very impressive! And inspiring for me! Can’t thank you enough for sharing ❤❤❤

Please give me some names of black people that would love MY banjo! Since it's a crime to own one myself

Very talented: singer, musician and songwriting!

Sounds great!

Rare dropthumbing ...

This is SO INCREDIBLE AHHH!! the beat with the clawhammer!?? so fucking cool! Fantastic song 1000/10

Sounds great. Very powerful and full of feeling. Thanks Hannah.

Lovely tune. Thanks for sharing. Sub'd

I like yer style

making Tracy proud!

What would make this better is two friends and a few packs of beer

omg love

Very well done. Sounds really great 😎🪕

Pretty please post the lyrics. This songs amazingly amazing

Lyrics please !!!!!!!??????

Fr my new favorite song .

Gotta love a fretless Nice tune

Great!

Fantastic!

I love your instrument colection!

Ooh there is something so whimsical and joyful about this song. I love your banjo playing. I didn't play banjo in my tiny desk submission for this year, but I will for next year's!

Mighty fine.

Dig it.

Simply Awsome. 😀😃😄😁😊