Black Banjo Reclamation Project: Making Roots Music and the Future of Folk

Join Sule Greg Wilson & Hannah Mayree as they tell histories of music across the African diaspora and engage communities in a dive into American folkways that are still in the making. The topic central to this workshop is their work of fabricating gourd banjos through their work with the Black Banjo Reclamation Project. This event is part of the Phoenix Forge Makerspace's Making Music Fest. The Black Banjo Reclamation Project is a creative eco-system that curates musical, cultural and land-based healing opportunities for Black, Afro-Diasporic communities around the world to work with the banjo as a tool for reclaiming ancestral wisdom & creating Afro-futures. By teaching and learning banjo playing techniques with African and Black centered perspectives, our unique facilitation of programs which includes banjo musical education, building & repair, and restorative somatic community experiences, we highlight the practice of land stewardship and the roots of Black liberation found in our folkways.