• Full scholarship for Wernick advanced banjo camp

    One full scholarship to Pete Wernick's Advanced Banjo Camp (1/18-23/10) is still available. Three such scholarships have already been awarded for the 2010 camp, but another has just recently been announced. Move quickly if you want to apply, however. The application

  • A bridge too big?

    What happens when you turn a 16 year old banjo player loose in wood shop? Well, if you're Kentuckian David Barnett, you make a gigantic banjo bridge. He used time in his carpentry class to create a monster bridge measuring 22''

  • Justin Jenkins steps out

    Here's some more fallout from The Boxcars supernova... Justin Jenkins, who had been playing banjo with Blue Moon Rising, will not be continuing with the group when it reforms in 2010. Along with Keith Garret and Harold Nixon - who have

  • Bela & The Flecktones Holiday Tour

    Béla Fleck & The Flecktones will start their Holiday Tour tonight (12/8) in Greenville, SC. They will be performing material from their 2008 Rounder CD, Jingle All The Way, chock full of Christmas music Flecktones style. The band includes Fleck on

  • Recording King RK-Elite

    Recording King has announced a new banjo model, the RK-Elite, to be debuted in January 2010. They describe this as their "most traditional Pre-war style banjo ever." The Elite features headstock and fingerboard inlays styled after the popular Flying Eagle pattern,

  • Allen Shelton remembered

    Richard Thompson contributes this brief overview of a seminal bluegrass artist. Raymond Allen Shelton RIP: July 2, 1936 - November 21, 2009 As already reported, banjo stylist Allen Shelton passed away on 21 November while in the Centennial Medical Center, Nashville. He

  • Three fine new banjo CDs

    Banjo CDs are coming out of the woodwork, it seems. Just in the past few weeks, we have received stellar releases from Dan Menzone, Jessie Baker and Chris Warner. Each is distinctive in its own way, and all should have

  • Lowell Levinger in Collectors Weekly

    The Collector's Weekly has a lengthy interview with Lowell Levinger where they discuss his extensive collection of vintage acoustic instruments. Levinger is better known to his followers as Banana, the nom de guerre he adopted as a founding member of

  • Allen Shelton remembered

    Richard Thompson contributes this brief overview of a seminal bluegrass artist. Raymond Allen Shelton RIP: July 2, 1936 - November 21, 2009 As already reported, banjo stylist Allen Shelton passed away on 21 November while in the Centennial Medical Center, Nashville. He