• Too Many Banjos?

    I found this video over on the Fretboard Journal Blog and thought I'd share it with you. Dodge's Sundodgers perform on, from the left, a bass banjo, a banjo-mandolin, a banjo-uke, a tenor banjo and a guitar banjo. And no, five

  • Chord charts on your cell phone

    How convenient would it be to have a chord chart, metronome and pitch pipe available on your mobile phone? If the answer is, "quite, thank you very much," you'll be interested in Chord Genie, a cell phone application from British

  • Smoky Mountain Banjo Academy 2007

    March 1, 2007 is the last date to take advantage of the early registration discount for the 2007 Smoky Mountain Banjo Academy. The event, held each spring near Gatlinburg, TN (hosted by Jack Hatfield), is scheduled this year from April

  • Banjo humor

    Our friend David Russell passed along this link, which is bound to warm the hearts of banjo haters everywhere - or anyone with a sense of humor that appreciates banjo deprecating whimsy. It's found on the site of White Tree Productions,

  • Pete Wernick banjo backup DVD

    Pete Wernick, a.k.a. Dr. Banjo, has long been regarded as one of the pre-eminent banjo instructors in bluegrass music. His book, Bluegrass Banjo, published in 1974, has sold over 200,00 copies and taught thousands to become banjo pickers over the

  • Harry Lane banjos

    When I first started playing banjo in the 1970s, Harry Lane was a well-regarded banjo maker, whose highly ornate and limited production instruments were prized by collectors. He discontinued his banjo building after only 40 were made, and focused his

  • Flux capacitor for banjo

    Tom Nechville, owner of Nechville Musical Products, has never been one to shy away from innovation in the banjo world. His Heli-Mount banjo frame (which replaces the brackets and coordinator rods), and the Nechville Meteor solid body electric banjos have

  • Evans, Steffey DVDs from AcuTab in Spring ’07

    AcuTab has announced two new bluegrass instructional DVDs for release this spring, one each for banjo and mandolin. First up will be Bluegrass Banjo Master Class, featuring Bill Evans. This will be the fourth installment in AcuTab's popular Power Pickin' series,

  • Trischka/Martin on Ellen posted on YouTube

    As one would have expected, someone has posted the video from Tony Trischka and Steve Martin's appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show last Thursday up on YouTube. They were on to promote Tony's Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular CD, and played one

  • Mark Delaney banjo workshop

    Mark Delaney, banjo player with Randy Waller and the Country Gentlemen, will be teaching a banjo workshop in early March in the Northern Virginia area. The workshop is geared toward the beginner to intermediate level player and will cover both