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In 2005, the Appalachian State University campus sparked a brilliant musical revolution with the inaugural Black Banjo Gathering, ignited what award-winning virtuoso Rhiannon Giddens famously dubbed the Black Banjo Renaissance. This boundary-breaking movement serves as a living, breathing nexus for players, makers, and scholars of African descent to aggressively reclaim the instrument’s deep historical roots and rewrite its future sonic trajectory. At James Madison Building - Mumford Room (LM649)