banjo

  • Pete Wernick with Long Road Home

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    Pete Wernick will be working next week on a live recording with Long Road Home, a bluegrass band based in Boulder, CO. They will be tracking May 25-27 at the Etown Hall in downtown Boulder, with admission proceeds going towards

  • Yates Banjos on WCNC

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    WCNC television in Charlotte, NC did a feature this week on Warren Yates, who builds banjos in a small shop in nearby Hickory. The piece includes interviews with Warren along with Ron Stewart, a prominent Yates endorser, and Dan Tyminski, with

  • Steve Martin and SCR in LA

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    Jacket Copy, the Los Angeles Times books blog, carried a review today on Steve Martin's show last night (5/11) with Steep Canyon Rangers in L.A. Why the books blog, you may ask? Well, the show was a benefit for the L.A.

  • Win a banjo from Rounder

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    Rounder Records also has a promotional giveaway going on to mark Bluegrass Music Month. The Grand Prize is a Deering Goodtime banjo, autographed by Steve Martin, whose CD The Crow is set for a May 19 Rounder release. 5 first prize winners

  • Hey Grandpa!

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    Happy news from the home of semi-retired banjo picker Alan Munde... Alan and his wife Kitty are celebrating the birth of Casey Patrick Alan Rice on May 1 - Alan's first grandchild! Also celebrating, of course, are the new parents, Rachel

  • Baby banjo workout

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    Here's a video to file away in the "isn't that cute" department... Now... can you play the song backwards and get her to go to sleep? Thanks to Steve Romanoski for sending us this video link.

  • Jam Buddy for iPhone

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    Charles Dumont, who developed the MandoChords and BanjoChords apps for the iPhone, has a new addition to his roster. JamBuddy will turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into... well, a jam buddy. It will provide either mandolin or guitar accompaniment for

  • Earl Scruggs on Sirius-XM

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    Earl Scruggs will be the guest this week on Track-By-Track, airing for the first time today (5/6) at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) on Bluegrass Junction, the Sirius-XM bluegrass channel. Earl, along with his sons Randy and Gary, sit with host Kyle Cantrell

  • Stolen Instruments in Nashville

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    Jesse Cobb of the Infamous Stringdusters wrote in to inform us of his brother's loss of four instruments. The guitar should be easily identifiable by its serial number. The other instruments will not be so easy to identify. But if you

  • The Banjo: good or evil?

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    Here's a quote from a recent post on the Dallas Morning News religion blog. My grandfather...was kicked out of a church in 1919 for playing the banjo with the youth group. Obviously everybody knew the banjo was an instrument of Satan! Discuss