Kristina Gaddy, author of Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo’s Hidden History, will give an overview of banjo history and women who have played the instrument and influenced it from its origins to present.

about the speaker

Kristina R. Gaddy is a Swedish-American writer and author of three books of nonfiction: A Most Perilous World: The True Story of the Young Abolitionists and Their Crusade Against Slavery (Dutton); Flowers in the Gutter: The True Story of the Edelweiss Pirates, Teenagers Who Resisted the Nazis (Dutton) and Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo’s Hidden History (W.W. Norton); and co-author, with Rhiannon Giddens, of Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo (UNC Press).