More links:

http://www.blackbanjo.com/ - The Association of Black Traditional String Players, Inc.

Sankofa Strings - Rhiannon Giddens & co. There's a beautiful image of a slave frolic with banjo player on the home page (the page you get to when you click "Enter").

The Carolina Chocolate Drops - another configuration of the Sankofa folks.

Listen to the Sankofa Strings in this program.

There's a sample of the Carolina Chocolate Drops here.

Dang -- TFTM (which I used to be heavy into organizing) missed out on a tour of theirs last summer in Arizona. One of them's a Phoenix native, though, so maybe we'll get another chance.

Of course, those sites have links... Azizi, if you check in again, here's someone in your neighborhood, I believe: Joan Dickerson. She plays classic style, rather than stringband/old-time dance music.

~ Becky in Tucson