Wednesday, November 3, 2021

A MINSTREL BANJOIST IN AUSTRALIA


ABC The History Listen features African-American banjo man Hosea Easton. Hosea toured with minstrel bands in the late nineteenth century and, judging by the two thousand people who turned up at his funeral in Sydney, had a lot of fans. Listen here.

See also one of our earlier and very popular posts 'And Now for the Ethiopian Seranaders'.

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