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   From: ulf.jagfors@telia.com   
      
   Session on African roots  of banjo to be held at ASU   
   BOONE - A concert and mini-symposium on the African roots of the   
   banjo will be held Dec. 6 at Appalachian State University.   
      
   Activities will begin at 3:30 p.m. with a panel discussion in   
   Plemmons Student Union's Blue Ridge Ballroom. Swedish-scholar Ulf   
   Jagfors, folklorist Cece Conway from ASU and musicians Daniel Jatta   
   and James Leva will talk about the Akonting tradition and the   
   evolution of the banjo.   
      
   Jatta, a native of Gambia, will perform on the Jola Akonting folk   
   lute, a predecessor of the banjo, at 8:30 p.m. in the ballroom.   
   Joining him will be Leva on the fiddle and Rick Ward, a mountain   
   banjo player and maker.   
      
   The programs are sponsored by the Appalachian Heritage Council, ASU's   
   English department and the Blue Ridge Folklife Institute.   
      
   For more information, e-mail Mecca Jackson at meccanacea@hotmail.com   
   or call the Center for Appalachian Studies at (828) 262-4089.   
      
   Admission is free, but donations will be accepted.   
      
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