Foster's Daily Democrat

The art of the 5-string banjo

The loss in Aug. 2007 of the famed transplanted NH resident, Irish singer/songwriter and national folk hero of the Emerald Isle at 74, Tommy Makem, alerted me recently to a news photo of Tommy with ...
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American Five-String Banjo

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This banjo was made by an unknown ...
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Boucher Five-String Fretless Banjo

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. William Boucher was a drum maker and ...
East Bay Times

Bay Area banjo players saving the four-string tradition

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 Independent

Clive Palmer: Virtuoso banjo-player who as a founder-member of the Incredible String Band helped pioneer psychedelic folk

One important strand of the British music scene in the 1960s was the folk revival that helped revolutionise popular music. One of its most influential exponents was The Incredible String Band, who ...