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Five years after they met, Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson are exactly where they startedthe Black Banjo Gathering in Boone, N.C. This time, however, they are the Carolina Chocolate ...

Multi-instrumentalist Dom Flemons career in music began with a TV show, but it's not the classic tale of watching The Beatles with wide eyes on the Ed Sullivan show. No, for Flemons, it was the 1995 ...

Hubby jenkins, of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, speaks of his path to membership in the band as “my own educational journey.” Jenkins, 27, is fairly new to the group; Carolina Chocolate Drops formed ...

Story: The band Carolina Chocolate Drops is reviving traditional black string band and jug band music from the 1920s and '30s. Members Rhiannon Giddens, Dom Flemons and Justin Robinson trained in the ...

Last time we chatted with The Carolina Chocolate Drops they were getting ready to play a sold out show in Sacramento - on July 2nd they'll be at the Gallo Center For The Arts in Modesto, and as of ...