LIVERMORE — Jim Bottorff settles into a chair in his living room and a pack of his fellow four-string banjo aficionados pile in with him. Some, like John Green, travel from as far away as Fiddletown, ...
Cynthia Sayer, top New York City four-string jazz banjo player, returns to Holyoke on Saturday, September 28th for the fourth time. This time, Sayer will bring Her Hot Swing Trio, including ...
Considered one of the top four-string banjoists in the world today, Cynthia Sayer is known for an eclectic repertoire not typical of banjo music. Sayer, who first performed at the Wistariahurst in ...
The loss in Aug. 2007 of the famed transplanted NH resident, Irish singer/songwriter and national folk hero of the Emerald Isle at 74, Tommy Makem, alerted me recently to a news photo of Tommy with ...
Most people would say, "A banjo is a banjo," but there are two separate worlds of banjo lovers separated by one thin string. Five-string pickers play bluegrass and folk music, and four-string ...
Buddy Griffin is waiting for the youth banjo band he directs to get the attention he feels it deserves. "When you say banjo, people think you don't have teeth," said Griffin, associate pastor of ...
LIVERMORE — Jim Bottorff settles into a chair in his living room and a pack of his fellow four-string banjo aficionados pile in with him. Some, like John Green, travel from as far away as Fiddletown, ...