Nora Brown, the banjo prodigy singing tales of Appalachia
New York (AFP) - At an age when most teenagers are busy learning the latest TikTok dance craze, banjo virtuoso Nora Brown has just released her second album of old-time twang. When her parents gifted her a ukulele for Christmas at age six they never envisioned she would emerge as one of the bluegrass world's rising stars. The 16-year-old raised in Brooklyn first encountered the banjo while taking lessons with the late Shlomo Pestcoe, a local expert in traditional music. And now Brown is among the musicians carrying on traditions from the mountains of Appalachia, passed down from the genre's ol...