Announcements

SAN FRANCISCO — The California Bluegrass Association (CBA) has announced the launch of Turn Your Radio OnLINE, a webcast series starting Saturday, May 23, 2020 at 6 p.m. Pacific Time, and continuing each Saturday through June 20. This new online music event is inspired by the CBA's annual Father’s Day Festival, held in Grass Valley, California, since 1975.

The lineup includes nationally known and popular California bands performing online from their "shelter in place" locations ...

Atascadero, Calif. — Once again, Straight Up Strings is offering their signature banjo and mandolin t-shirts for pre-sale until December 4, 2017. Customers have their choice of shirt colors, which will ship on December 15, 2017 in time ...

Nashville, Tenn. — John McEuen, one of the founding members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (NGDB), has announced his immediate departure from the iconic group.

Stating "enough is enough," McEuen exits upon the conclusion of the NGDB 2017 tour marking the ...

Winchester, Va. — The Murphy Method’s New Beginning Banjo DVDs have been updated, expanded, and re-recorded in High Definition (HD), now with three volumes of Beginning Banjo DVDs.

Each song includes the vamp chords and an ending lick. Taught by Murphy Henry with son Chris Henry on guitar. All songs are taught by ear and there is no tablature or written music. Murphy has also tweaked ...

Montclair, N.J. — Backbeat Publications, a division of Hal Leonard has announced a special discounted rate extended to Banjo Cafe visitors for Bob Carlin's new book Banjo: An Illustrated History.

Regularly $35.00, visitors to the ...

Fairfax, Calif. — In celebration of Sharon Gilchrist's new mandolin course, Intermediate Bluegrass Mandolin at Peghead Nation, the company has extended to Banjo Cafe visitors the same special rate, a first month free (or $20 off an annual subscription)!

Enroll and use promo code BanjoCafe at checkout.

You can also use this code for banjo courses like Beginning Banjo or Bluegrass Banjo, both ...

Nashville, Tenn. — Compass Records recording artist Alison Brown and her Acoustic Quartet featuring Matt Flinner, Bryan McDowell, and Garry West will travel to Europe in June with stops in France, Switzerland, and ...

Woodstock , N.Y. — May 13-20, Homespun Music Instruction is partnering with the Banjo Cafe to offer 25% off all of Homespun catalog titles purchased from Banjo Cafe on Demand. There is no limit to the number of items you may order — ...

They're here! Banjo Cafe ball caps are a soft cotton traditional ball cap with a strong adjustable buckle, one size fits all. We're shipping to all international locations. U.S. orders are sent USPS Priority and shipped same day. International shipments are sent via air with international mailing rates applying by location.
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Amy Sullivan and Kali Nowakowski to Expand Straight Up Strings Division

Atascadero, Calif. — Luthier, Orville Gibson and Lloyd Loar historian, inventor, and acoustician, Roger Siminoff, has announced that he will retire this month and steadily phase out Siminoff Banjo and Mandolin Parts. ...

Lawrence, Kans. — Today we announce the launch of Banjo Cafe. Site content and creation began January 6, 2015. The site went live behind password protection January 1, 2016 operating as it would be if visible to the public. This allowed us to hit the ground ...

Oklahoma City - Iconic Bluegrass banjoist, J.D. Crowe, will be among the 2016 inductees into the American Banjo Museum Hall of Fame.

The induction ceremony will take place Friday, September 9, 2016 at the Skirvin Hilton Hotel in downtown Oklahoma City. The event ...

Hearing Bluegrass in Switzerland wasn't exactly what I was expecting while studying abroad in 1983. But that's what I found one summer day on the streets of Lucerne, when I encountered a Bluegrass group of musicians far from Appalacia or anywhere else its side of the pond. And they were good too, especially the banjo player.

I approached them after they had picked a couple of tunes, ...

We'd like to hear your music, and so would a lot of other people.

Like to get the commercial recording you're selling (or giving away for commercial purposes) exposed to a broader audience? We'd like to help! ...

We're proud to offer our Banjo Cafe case stickers, shown below. This a cut-out sticker, not a rectangle. What you see is what the sticker will actually look like. It's a custom cut sticker.

We provide three convenient ways to acquire the ...

Farmingdale, N.Y. — Planet Waves by D'Addario has announced their new chromatic NS Micro Banjo Tuner, designed specifically for banjos.

The tuner is installed by using a non-marring hoop mounting bracket.

The highly sensitive piezo transducer ...

Facebook contains a number of banjo public groups that have a brisk participation rate some may find to their liking.



Here's good news we can all get behind: Facebook is full of banjo players and fans of banjo music, and they allow Public Groups started by enthusiasts ...