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Levenson was voted one of the United States's top ten clawhammer banjo players by Banjo Newsletter readers. [9] [10] He has been called the "Johnny Appleseed of the banjo" by fellow banjoist and writer Ken Perlman in recognition of Levenson's efforts in popularizing banjo playing across the United States and the world. [3]
Johnson was raised in Yorktown Heights, New York and started playing banjo at the age of 15. In 1971, he began his first banjo lessons with Jay Ungar in Garrison, NY. While studying with Ungar he learned the "Frailing Style" of five string banjo playing. [5] Johnson is self taught in the Scruggs and Melodic style of bluegrass banjo playing. [6]
Pete Wernick (born February 25, 1946), also known as "Dr. Banjo", is an American musician. [1]He is a five-string banjo player in the bluegrass music scene since the 1960s, founder of the Country Cooking and Hot Rize bands, Grammy nominee and educator, with several instruction books and videos on banjo and bluegrass, and a network of bluegrass jamming teachers called The Wernick Method.
Danny Barnes (born December 21, 1961) [1] is an American banjo player, singer, and composer whose music is influenced by country, jazz, blues, punk, metal, and more. [2] He has been described as a "banjo virtuoso" [3] [4] and is "widely acknowledged as one of the best banjo players in America."
In 2014 at the International Bluegrass Music Awards he was named banjo player of the year by the International Bluegrass Music Association; he received it again in 2017. [9] He also received the album of the year award for Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe [ 10 ] - the same album that would be nominated for "Best Bluegrass Album ...
A Storyteller's Story: Sources of Banjo Dancing Patuxent Music Patuxent CD-333 (2019) Americana Concert: Alan Jabbour and Stephen Wade at the Library of Congress Patuxent Music Patuxent CD-308 (2017). Across the Amerikee: Showpieces from Coal Camp to Cattle Trail. Smithsonian Folkways SFW 40223 (2017). Banjo Diary: Lessons from Tradition.
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In partnership with the Vega Banjo Company of Boston, Peabody developed a new type of plectrum banjo called the Vegavox, featuring a resonator that rose the full height of the banjo's body. (Traditional resonators are about half as high.) This increased the banjo's interior resonation space, giving it a distinctively mellow tone.