It’s easy to pick up the style but difficult to master – but you don’t have to be a master to participate.” For Ingham, clawhammer banjo grows in interest in what he calls the post-traditional age and ...

Jonas Friddle grew up listening to classic rock, Creedence Clearwater Revival, for example. He also heard a lot of folk musicians, including John Prine and Doc Watson, while growing up in the North ...

SALISBURY — If Bob Carlin were thinking of post-World War II banjoists to put on a Mount Rushmore, he says the faces carved in stone would have to include Earl Scruggs, Bill Keith, Bela Fleck and Pete ...

Forty-five-year-old Pat Kelleher likes a song "with a good story to tell" and that fact helped nurture his career as a singer of Irish folk songs. Having an older brother who played the five-string ...

(Alec Stone Sweet is the fingerstyle steel-string ac guitarist here - applying clawhammer banjo technique to the guitar. Spacious, haunting & quite exquisite solo guitar setting of two "ole-timey" ...

Johnson and Schwimmer are inventive banjo players who have released these solo albums on their private labels, but that is where the similarities end. Mark Johnson plays “clawhammer-style” banjo, ...

At Denver's Swallow Hill BanjoFest on Saturday, the toe-tappin' rhythm, quick-pickin' chords and an unmistakable twang filled the air. For Toronto-based musician Chris Coole, that sound comes down to ...

Banjo player Mark Johnson, who combines a clawhammer style with the three-finger style of bluegrass picking to create a unique hybrid sound, is the recipient of the third annual Steve Martin Prize… By ...