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Ryan Cavanaugh

  • Applications open for Béla Fleck’s 2022 Blue Ridge Banjo Camp

    January 6, 2022 | by John Lawless

    Applications are now being accepted to attend the 2022 Blue Ridge Banjo Camp, founded and curated by Béla Fleck. This year's camp will be held August 17-21 in Brevard, NC. Fleck will be teaching during the camp, alongside his hand-picked faculty

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  • Ryan Cavanaugh explains departure from Songs From the Road Band

    October 29, 2019 | by John Lawless

    Esoteric and experimental banjo player Ryan Cavanaugh has explained his reasons for leaving his post with Songs From The Road Band, after a full year on the road, and having completed recording their next album, Waiting On A Ride. The band

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  • Ryan Cavanaugh moves on from Jeff Austin

    October 24, 2016 | by John Lawless

    Ryan Cavanaugh has announced that he is leaving his banjo position with the Jeff Austin Band and heading back to his home base in New York City. Austin had started his group when he left Yonder Mountain String Band in the

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  • Colorado drops for Cavanaugh & Lanzbom

    July 20, 2016 | by John Lawless

    Jazz banjo pioneer Ryan Cavanaugh has a new album coming out later this year with guitarist C Lanzbom. Titled Every Note the Heart Can Play, it features original compositions by the two noted instrumentalists, engineered and mixed by Lanzbom at his Sherwood

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  • Ryan Cavanaugh – a banjo anomaly

    November 9, 2015 | by Brian Paul Swenk

    The national popularity of bluegrass music might ebb and flow with social and artistic trends, but the quality of picking and musical ability has stayed on an impressively upward trajectory throughout the decades. Anyone who keeps up with the music

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  • 2015 California Banjo Extravaganza

    November 9, 2015 | by John Lawless

    The 2015 California Banjo Extravaganza is set to roll across the northern sections of the Golden State later this week. Host and performer Bill Evans has brought top banjo pickers from the eastern and central portions of the country to entertain

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  • Ryan Cavanaugh to Jeff Austin Band

    August 28, 2015 | by John Lawless

    The Jeff Austin Band has announced that Ryan Cavanaugh has joined the group on banjo, taking the spot recently vacated by Danny Barnes. This has been Jeff's performing vehicle since he left Yonder Mountain String Band in 2013. Cavanaugh joins Austin on

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  • Fleck, Trischka and friends honor Bill Keith at Grey Fox Banjo Summit

    July 20, 2015 | by Andy Flynn

    Bela Fleck, Tony Trischka and six other banjo greats honored 75-year-old Bill Keith Friday, July 17 at the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival in what was dubbed the Keith-Style Banjo Summit. Fans packed the Creekside Stage tent to listen to the tribute

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  • Ryan Cavanaugh demos the EMG ACM-5 banjo pickup

    June 19, 2015 | by John Lawless

    New York banjo picker Ryan Cavanaugh has created a pair of videos where he is demonstrating the efficacy of the new ACM-5 banjo pickup from EMG. To do so, he performs two new pieces of his, destined for his next album,

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  • Ryan Cavanaugh exits Soulgrass

    January 5, 2015 | by John Lawless

    Jazz and progressive 5 string banjo player Ryan Cavanaugh has announced his exit from Bill Evans Soulgrass, a hybrid effort by noted sax man Evans to blend funk, jazz and bluegrass grooves. "After 9 years, over 25 countries, and thousands of

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