My two favourite banjo players are trans! Noelle Longhaul and Adrianne Cooper Smith.
I also play a little but not enough to consider myself a banjo player.
I also think a lot about electronic music as a modern parallel to the spaces folk music occupied in its hayday. Especially laptop music. Cheap or in some cases modified every day objects making music for nothing but the enjoyment of the player/ their friends. Often, instrunents that lack the need for formal training or institutional regulation.
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