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He played the tenor banjo, violin, mandolin, and melodeon. He was most renowned as a banjo player. Barney used GDAE tuning on a 19-fret tenor banjo, an octave below fiddle/mandolin and, according to musician Mick Moloney, was single-handedly responsible for making the GDAE-tuned tenor banjo the standard banjo in Irish music.
William "Dave" Evans (July 24, 1950 - June 26, 2017) was a tenor singer, banjo player, composer, and bluegrass band leader. He was noted for his powerful tenor vocal range and for his style which bridged traditional and contemporary bluegrass. [3]
It is a symphonic piece for full orchestra, including celeste, harp, and tenor banjo. It combines a fairly traditional symphonic form with blues progressions and rhythms that were characteristic of popular African-American music at the time. This combination expressed Still's integration of black culture into the classical forms.
Michael (Mike) Pingitore (or Pingatore; 1888–1952) was a member of Paul Whiteman's Orchestra. [1] Whiteman discovered him playing tenor banjo and he became part of the rhythm section for his newly-formed band for the Alexandria Hotel in Los Angeles (later known as the original Whiteman band), [2] playing there for its entire existence (1919–1948) except for a brief period in 1923 due to ...
Charlie Tagawa (October 27, 1935 – July 30, 2017) was a Japanese-born American musical entertainer and banjoist.In a music career spanning seven decades, he was regarded as one of the best contemporary four-string banjo players. [1]
Samuel Swaim Stewart (January 8, 1855—April 6, 1898), also known as S. S. Stewart, was a musician, composer, publisher, and manufacturer of banjos. [3] He owned the S. S. Stewart Banjo Company, which was one of the largest banjo manufacturers in the 1890s, manufacturing tens-of-thousands of banjos annually. [4]
Bernard Noël "Banjo Barney" McKenna (16 December 1939 – 5 April 2012 [1]) was an Irish musician and a founding member of The Dubliners. He played the tenor banjo , violin, mandolin , and melodeon .
Kieran Hanrahan [1] (born 1957) is an Irish radio host and musician. [2] [3] Born in Ennis, County Clare, he began playing traditional Irish music on the tenor banjo at the age of fourteen.