Clube da Esquina, in English "The Corner Club", was a Brazilian music movement created in the State of Minas Gerais. It is also the name of a double album from 1972 and its second part from 1979. Clube da Esquina mixes several styles such as rock and roll, progressive rock, bossa nova, and jazz with Brazilian folk music (especially folk and country music from Minas Gerais) and, on top of that...
The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, in modern forms usually made of plastic, originally of animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashioned by African Americans and had African antecedents.[1][2] In the 19th century, interest in the instrument was spread across the United State...