Hubby jenkins, of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, speaks of his path to membership in the band as “my own educational journey.” Jenkins, 27, is fairly new to the group; Carolina Chocolate Drops formed ...

About the only thing that could keep the cold Sunday night rain from spoiling the end of the Living Traditions festival was this North Carolina trio capable of generating plenty... About the only ...

Giddens' banjo and viola are featured on Beyoncé's new country album. We listen back to a 2010 interview and in-studio performance by Giddens and... Rhiannon Giddens and the Carolina Chocolate Drops ...

Twenty years ago, the old-time string band Carolina Chocolate Drops turned heads and wowed audiences. They were young. They were Black. And with their fiddles and banjos, they launched a movement that ...

Back in 2005, three young African-American musicians began making weekly pilgrimages to Joe Thompson’s home in Mebane, North Carolina. They had developed an interest in old-time black string-band ...

As MASS MoCA celebrated its 11th anniversary on Saturday, the influence of Joe Thompson was everywhere. Not the Joe Thompson who’s been the director of the gargantuan contemporary art museum since it ...

Hubby Jenkins might be best known as a member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, but he’ll play solo at Caffe Lena on Sunday. The Carolina Chocolate Drops made a giant splash as a leading roots music ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. It was a magical moment for staff when members of the Carolina Chocolate Drops performed on authentic instruments in the museum's collection.

Dom Flemons, a co-founder of the Grammy-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, will perform on at 3 p.m. Oct. 6 at Reynolda House Museum of American Art. Bluegrass legend Alice Gerrard with Kay Justice ...