Today is a big day for the venerable Banjo NewsLetter. With their November 2013 issue, their 481st, the monthly magazine celebrates 40 years of continuous publication.
The cover depicts BNL’s publishers, Spencer and Donald Nitchie, who continue to manage the only print publication devoted entirely to banjo music which their father, Hub, started in 1973. When he passed in ’93, Donald and Spencer stepped up to keep Banjo NewsLetter going, along with their mother, Nancy, and have done so since.
Both bluegrass and old time banjo are covered each month in BNL, with reviews, tune tabs and purely instructional columns. For the big 40th issue, many of the magazine’s many contributors over the years are back, including Greg Cahill, Mike Munford, Alan Munde, Kenny Ingram, Cathy Fink, Murphy Henry, Janet Davis, Tom Adams, Dan Levenson, Tony Trischka, Little Roy Lewis, Eddie Adcock, John Herrmann and more.
The November issue is on sale now at newsstands and directly from their web site.
Congratulations Banjo NewsLetter!
