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The first consists of primary banjo players and the second of celebrities that also play the banjo This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
2014 American Banjo Museum Hall of Fame Award for Earl Scruggs. The American Banjo Museum Hall of Fame, formerly known as the National Four-String Banjo Hall of Fame, recognizes musicians. bands, or companies that have made a distinct contribution to banjo performance, education, manufacturing, and towards promotion of the banjo.
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.
Martin Kershaw's Maya Banjo on display in an exhibit honoring Jim Henson at the American Banjo Museum. Puppeteer Jim Henson was inducted into the American Banjo Museum Hall of Fame in 2018. From September 2018 into 2020, the museum exhibited "Jim Henson – Life and Legacy", which was curated by Karen Falk of The Jim Henson Company and featured ...
The Peninsula Banjo Band is American musical group and 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation [1] dedicated to preserving the musical legacy of the four-string banjo as well as raising money for cancer-related and other notable charities. The group is based in Northern California, around San Jose and San Francisco and has performed publicly every week ...
James V. "Jimmy" Henley (September 2, 1963 – March 22, 2020) was an American banjo player who played bluegrass music.He won several banjo contests as a young boy. As a young boy he met country music star Roy Clark at the New Mexico State Fair and Clark invited him to perform on National television.
Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Banjo Lesson, 1893, Hampton University Museum. Gift to museum by Robert C. Ogden. [1] The Banjo Lesson is an 1893 oil painting by African-American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner. It depicts two African-Americans in a humble domestic setting: an old black man is teaching a young boy – possibly his grandson – to play the ...
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