One year after The Minstrel Show, what’s next for the Hall of Justus? For our Oct. 5, 2005 issue, Grayson Currin joined Little Brother and their Hall of Justus entourage–L.E.G.A.C.Y., The Away Team, ...

If U Black Niggas Network, the satirical television station at the center of the 2005 Atlantic Records debut by Durham’s Little Brother, had been a real cable network, the tone of the broadcast would ...

It began with a late 18th century version of a social media blast — word of mouth and occasional shouts to passersby encouraging their attendance at a new show by fresh-faced performers moments after ...

Sheet music cover for 'James Bland's 3 Great Songs, 1879. Scanned from Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America by Robert Toll. From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and ...

Medieval traveling minstrels often journeyed hundreds of miles by foot to conferences to learn new songs. Liza Malamut, artistic director of The Newberry Consort, has joined forces with Allison Monroe ...

The New Christy Minstrels aren't exactly new. In fact, the group that helped spread folk music to the masses in the 1960s is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Now eight members strong and ...

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CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Collection documents the professional musical career of Peter Marks as a harpist on the Midwestern minstrel circuit consisting primarily of sheet ...

Randy Sparks, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and founder of the folk music group the New Christy Minstrels, died Feb. 11 at an assisted-living facility in San Diego. He was 90. His son, Kevin, ...

The fire still burns in Randy Sparks, whose Grammy Award-winning group the New Christy Minstrels is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The band will perform in a benefit concert at 3 p.m.