MUSIC episode

MUSIC focuses on finely crafted handmade instruments and the world renowned artists who play them, including Jake Shimabukuro at Kamaka Hawaii, Joan Baez with her Martin guitar, Scotty Barnhart with his Dave Monette trumpet, Rhiannon Giddens with banjo maker Jim Hartel, Tony Ellis at Stelling Banjo, and Joseph Pereira with mallet maker Jason Ginter.

MUSIC focuses on finely crafted handmade instruments and the world renowned artists who play them, including Jake Shimabukuro at Kamaka Hawaii, Joan Baez with her Martin guitar, Scotty Barnhart with his Dave Monette trumpet, Rhiannon Giddens with banjo maker Jim Hartel, Tony Ellis at Stelling Banjo, and Joseph Pereira with mallet maker Jason Ginter.

Banjo maker Jim Hartel talks about craft, of making things daily by hand, and his experience stone carving in India. Bonus video from the MUSIC episode. PBS premiere November 20, 2015. Archival Courtesy of Dr. Robert H. Sayers and Jim Hartel.

Joan Baez speaks about activism, her 1972 trip to Hanoi, and the guitar as an instrument of change. Bonus video from the Martin Guitar segment of the MUSIC episode. PBS premiere November 20, 2015. Archival Courtesy of Bettmann/Corbis, National Archives, Associated Press/Barry Romo, Joan Baez, Pond5/VUSschneider

William L. Ellis & his father Tony Ellis on learning to play music, how a Scottish village inspired Tony’s fiddle tune “Plockton Aire,” parlor banjo history, and family influences, including how Tony’s grandmother played him lullabyes on the banjo.