Professional guitar player and international music journalist for the Boston Phoenix and National Public Radio's All Things Considered, Banning Eyre contributes regularly to Billboard, Ms, Rhythm, the Beat, and New Music Monthly. He has travelled extensively in Africa and has produced many programs for the public radio series Afropop Worlwide. In 1995, Eyre co-authored AFROPOP! An Illustrated Guide to Contemporary African Music with Sean Barlow. He is currently Senior Editor for Africa at www.afropop.org.
