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 ...

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 ...

With old-timey string tunes that’ll lift your spirits and your knees, the Carolina Chocolate Drops know how to get the party hopping like no other revivalist band can. Their specialty is ...

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 ...