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The highly anticipated new album by clawhammer player and singer/songwriter Kaia Kater is being released in May 2016.

The album, titled Nine Pin is Kaia's first full-length studio album. It contains 15 tracks and to a large extent showcases her own ...

When it comes to all things banjo, Bill Evans is the consummate triple threat. The guy plays, teaches, and is a historian of the banjo. He continues to maintain a busy touring schedule these days with the likes of such luminaries as flatpicking legend Dan Crary and banjo master Alan Munde. And in addition to his frequent workshop teaching gigs across the country as well as giving private lessons (not to mention being the bluegrass banjo instructor for Peghead Nation), Bill literally wrote the book for budding new banjo players wondering how to unsort it all: his immensely popular Banjo for Dummies, followed by the equally well-acclaimed Bluegrass Banjo for Dummies. As an ambassador of the banjo, few people are equal to Bill Evans.
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It wasn't hard to locate banjo players among the singer/songwriters roaming the crowded halls of the most recent Folk Alliance International conference in Kansas City. Just about everywhere you looked, you'd see aspiring young musicians, often women, with an open-back banjo flung over their shoulder. But if you were hoping to hear skilled players amidst the banjo-toting crowd, that required a bit more effort to find.
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Joe Spann is a life-long card carrying banjo player with a professional background in genealogical and historical research, staff and facility management, fiscal planning and collection development. He is the author of Spann's Guide to Gibson 1902-1941.
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The Evie Ladie Band is set to release a new CD on May 6, 2016 that showcases the talents of well-known clawhammer banjo player and instructor Evie Ladin. Ladin fronts the band and writes the lyrics for the original songs featured on the CD, titled ...

Montclair, N.J. — Hal Leonard has announced the upcoming release this summer of Banjo: An Illustrated History from their Backbeat publications.

The book, written by acclaimed banjoist, author, and broadcaster Bob Carlin, offers the first comprehensive, illustrated ...

Titusville, Fla. — Gold-Tone, D'Addario and the Banjo Cafe are combining efforts to give away a brand new WL-250 White Ladye banjo and hard shell case with a retail value of $1,219.00, and related D'Addario banjo products.

Registration commences from a link on the Banjo Cafe home page April 14. A lucky winner will be selected at random May 2.
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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 ...

Joe Spann is a life-long card carrying banjo player with a professional background in genealogical and historical research, staff and facility management, fiscal planning and collection development. He is the author of Spann's Guide to Gibson 1902-1941.
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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, ...