banjo

  • Terry Baucom – steady and stonefaced

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    I happened to catch Terry Baucom on stage last weekend with the Mountain Heart & Tony Rice show at Roanoke Fiddlefest. It was a terrific show, and this memento of the performance is a classic. It was created by Jenny Conner,

  • Ron Block in the studio

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    Alison Krauss & Union Station got started on their next studio recording this past weekend, tracking at Sound Emporium in Nashville. Steve Huber visited the studio on Monday (8/3) to tweak a couple of banjos for Ron Block, and sent us

  • Béla Fleck at Berklee

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    Béla Fleck made another of his periodic visits to The Berklee College Of Music in Boston last week, a visit chronicled on the school's web site. He was in Boston as a part of the publicity tour for his documentary film,

  • Charlie Cushman doing fine

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    Nashville banjo player Charlie Cushman underwent emergency coronary bypass surgery yesterday (7/28). He suffered a mild heart attack on Monday, and was immediately scheduled for a triple bypass. His good friend, and fellow banjo picker, Larry Perkins tells us that everything

  • Bluegrass and banjos in Borneo

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    Ace banjo player Jake Schepps sent along this fascinating report from his recent trip to Borneo with the Jeff and Vida Band, along with some photos and a video. Two weeks ago, the Jeff and Vida Band performed at the 12th annual

  • Pete Wernick – The Doctor Is In

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    Pete Wernick, Dr. Banjo to you and me, was the subject of a recent video segment for TimesCall.com, the online home of the Longmont Daily Times-Call, Pete's hometown paper. The video visits Pete at his banjo practice cabin, which he built

  • Banjo band – boon or bane?

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    Our friends at ukbluegrass.com have really started a ruckus... In their post about We Banjo 3, an Irish quartet, they once again raise the spectre of the banjo band. The group features 3 - and sometimes 4 - banjos playing at

  • Jens Kruger and the new Deering Sierra

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    Deering has reintroduced their popular Sierra banjo, with a new inlay pattern in the neck. The Sierra is Deering's least expensive tone ring banjo ($2699), making it perhaps the lowest priced professional model banjo made in the US. It is offered

  • Steve Martin tab book for The Crow

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    Homespun has just released a banjo tab book to accompany Steve Martin's recent CD, The Crow. The 40 page book contains transcriptions for Steve's opening breaks or primary solos on all 15 tunes, plus Tony Trischka's harmony banjo parts for the

  • Banjo the dino

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    Is the banjo a ferocious predator? It seems so. Three new species of dinosaurs have been discovered in Australia. The three were named after the Australian poet Banjo Paterson and characters in his poetry (Waltzing Matilda). The dino named Banjo is said