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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]
Banjo music originated informally as a form of African folk music over a hundred years ago probably in the sub-Saharan region. When the Americans forced African slaves to work on the plantations, banjo music followed them, and stayed primarily a form of African folk music, up to the 1800s.
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."
Mike Snider (born May 30, 1961) is an American banjo player and humorist. He specialized in "old-time" mountain music which is a stylistic that can be traced back to the core beginnings of country music. He learned to play the banjo at the age of 16. Although he is well known for comedic routine, he is also a banjo player.
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.
Scruggs style is the most common style of playing the banjo in bluegrass music. It is a fingerpicking method, also known as three-finger style . It is named after Earl Scruggs , whose innovative approach and technical mastery of the instrument have influenced generations of bluegrass banjoists ever since he was first recorded in 1946.
Bob Carlin (born March 17, 1953, in New York City) is an American old-time banjo player and singer.. Carlin performs primarily in the clawhammer style of banjo. He has toured the United States, Canada, and Europe performing on various historical banjos (including gourd banjos), and has explored the African roots of the banjo by working with the Malian musician Cheick Hamala Diabate and the ...
Bulbul Tarang made by THE KAMLESH. The Bulbul Tarang (बुलबुल तरंग) literally "waves of nightingales", alternately Indian Banjo) is a string instrument from India. which evolved from the Japanese taishōgoto, which likely arrived in South Asia in the 1930s.