Two years ago we read about what promised to be a groundbreaking new product called Zylia, a multi-track recording and mixing system using a single microphone with multiple elements. Designed over the course of several years by a team of
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2020 Steve Martin Banjo Prize to be shared among five banjoists
The five co-winners of the 2020 Steve Martin Banjo Prize were announced today by the FreshGrass Foundation, who had partnered earlier this year with Steve Martin to keep this award, which he initially conceived and funded, going forward into the
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Fun Solos To Play – new banjo book by Lluis Gomez
Mel Bay has announced the release of Banjo Picking Tunes - Fun Solos To Play, by Lluis Gomez. The book, which includes audio of the solos being played, contains 47 pieces in a variety of styles. It is best to think
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Jim McCown passes
Jim McCown, noted bluegrass banjo player, audio engineer, and old time fiddler, passed away suddenly on October 7 in Hardy, KY. He was 80 years of age. Bluegrass audiences first came to know Jim in the early 1970s through the band
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Ask Sonny Anything… you are missing the boat on Billy Strings
Ask Sonny Anything is a recurring feature where our readers pose questions to the great Sonny Osborne, one half of the iconic Osborne Brothers who redefined bluegrass music in the 1960s, and noted banjo maven and collector of fine prewar
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The Scolding Wife – debut single from Adam Hurt’s Back To The Earth
Aficionados of old time banjo music have long regarded Adam Hurt as one of its finest contemporary practitioners. The native of St Paul, MN now living near Danville, VA, seems to please every sort of old time enthusiast through his
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Video Premiere: Thundering Herd video from Chandler Holt
Chandler Holt spent almost twenty years playing banjo with Chatham County Line, Raleigh, NC's hometown newgrass band. As a founding member of the group, he had been along for the ride as they grew from a local group to a
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Ask Sonny Anything… Leave those knobs alone!
Ask Sonny Anything is a recurring feature where our readers pose questions to the great Sonny Osborne, one half of the iconic Osborne Brothers who redefined bluegrass music in the 1960s, and noted banjo maven and collector of fine prewar
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Ask Sonny Anything… the future of bluegrass?
Ask Sonny Anything is a recurring feature where our readers pose questions to the great Sonny Osborne, one half of the iconic Osborne Brothers who redefined bluegrass music in the 1960s, and noted banjo maven and collector of fine prewar
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Ask Sonny Anything… what did you think of The Country Gentlemen?
Ask Sonny Anything is a recurring feature where our readers pose questions to the great Sonny Osborne, one half of the iconic Osborne Brothers who redefined bluegrass music in the 1960s, and noted banjo maven and collector of fine prewar