To many friends and acquaintances in southern Minnesota, Lowell Schreyer was a retired journalist who played the banjo. In the “banjo world” however, Lowell Schreyer was a giant. He traveled the world ...
“He kept it under his bed for 20 years,” Detroit News design writer Maureen Feighan told appraiser Jerry Anderson about her father and his 1920s banjo at a recent Trash or Treasure appraisal held ...
Cynthia Sayer and Terry Baucom have been named as the 2023 recipients of the Steve Martin Banjo Prize for Excellence in Banjo & Bluegrass, the annual award administered by The Freshgrass Foundation, ...
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, ...
The banjo gets a bum rap. A staple of American country music, its bright tone and rhythmic clangor threaten to overwhelm musical gatherings of other, milder string-band instruments, such as guitar, ...
Contact this contributing writer at PamDillon@woh.rr.com. Nostalgia still sells, especially if you’re a member of the Kettering Banjo Society. Since getting its start in the early 1970s, the group ...
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