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BNL Columnists
5
String Quarterly, edited by Eddie Collins, focused on 3 finger picking.
Their last issue was published in the winter of 1997. Table of contents and
feature articles from all 8 issues of 5SQ are provided along with selected
pieces on banjo history, and a listing of banjo resources. Contact Eddie
Collins at: tuneman@asutin.rr.com
Tom Adams now has a website at www.adamscountybanjo.com, which includes news,
schedule, merchandise and a terrific run-on sentence.
Pat Cloud has a new website
with sound files.
Janet Davis
Bob Flesher
Jack
Hatfield
Murphy Henry
David Jakubiak’s website Fretmentor offers
on-line 3-finger banjo instruction (Scruggs, melodic and Reno), including
instruction on how to utilize musical theory concepts.
Phil Mann's Banjo and Bluegrass Information Site includes tabs,
instrument makers and the Canonical List of Banjo Jokes. Also includes MIDI
files for tabs that have recently appeared in Banjo Newsletter.
Dan
Levenson
Jim Pankey of North Georgia Music and The Workshop column.
Ken
Perlman
Harold
Streeter Banjo Catalog: hundreds of tabs, tapes, transcriptions,
books and courses. Visit the website or call (208) 773-0645.
Under Banjo Builders and musical accessories:
Harry & Jeanie West Fine Musical Instruments in North
Carolina have a website
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Bluegrass on the Internet
Acutab -- For banjo tablature on the net, check out
John Lawless's Acutab Publications site. To sign up for the AcuTab Banjo listserv.
The Anne Arundel County Bluegrass Association
BANJO-L Banjo-L homepage. Donald Zepp authors the Banjo-L homepage,
while Sean Barry runs the listserve devoted to the 5-string. Banjo-L
homepage includes links, tunings, archives, the banjo players directory, and
subscription info.
Mike Acquesta's Banjo In The Hollow
site gives a schedule of what this North Carolina banjo group is up to.
Banjo Newsgroup
A discussion group about all things banjo! If your Web browser can access
your newserver, you can link directly. If not, the address is alt.banjo.
Bluegrass Australia -- Mike Kear, Chairman of IBMA's Pacific
Bluegrass Network, informs us of Bluegrass Australia:
http://www.bluegrass.org.au
Bluegrassworks.com
is an online bluegrass site that includes news,
profilies, CD reviews and sales, charts, links, classifieds and more.
Karen Quick's Bluegrass World. Great links!
Bound for Shady Grove -- Steve Harvey, who wrote this
book about Mountain music, now has a homepage, where he reads selections
from the book, and also plays banjo tunes.
Clodhoppers Music
-- Online music instrument store offering Gold Tone banjos, Blueridge
guitars, Regal dobros, Kentucky mandolins, Cremona fiddles, and all kinds of
stringed acoustic instruments. Charleston, WV
 For
the largest bluegrass site on the Net, check out Bob Cherry's
Cybergrass: The Internet Bluegrass Magazine.
DC Bluegrass
Union -- DCBU maintains a listserv for
use by subscribers to promote the dissemination and propagation of
information about bluegrass music scene in the metropolitan Washington, DC
area (DC/NoVA/MD). Discussion about bluegrass news, events, performances,
and any issue relevant to the capitol region's bluegrass scene is
encouraged.
For bluegrass and acoustic music tour info, go to Dirty Linen magazine.
BNL Contributor Jack Baker sent in this site for the Fretted Instruments School of Guitar and Banjo.
The International Bluegrass Music Association is an
important industry trade organization devoted to the promotion and
development of bluegrass music worldwide.
Kulak's Woodshed is a Community of Musicians dedicated to the
Celebration of Music just fer the FUN of It. A Live (7 nights a week),
Acoustic Music, Singer/Songwriter, Folk, Blues, Country, Rock, (anything
goes), Seats 'bout 50, Internet Webcast, Kinda..
North West
Bluegrass News contains festival and club info on NW England and nearby:
Also includes online mags, articles, reviews, Tab/MIDI downloads, and other
links.
Ross Nickerson’s site for bluegrass banjo students includes
info on his books and DVDs, the Banjo Cruise, online lessons, banjos and
accessories, and much more at his
website.
The
Southern Music Network
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Instruction - Publications
Acoustic Musician magazine is a fine-looking monthly devoted to the
needs of the acoustic musician, with tabs, profiles on musicians and
luthiers, studio and sound features, and more.
Banjo Academy
is a Bluegrass Banjo learning site. Includes videos and mp3s of Cripple
Creek, Blue Ridge Mt. Home, Boil Em Cabbage, several rolls, etc.
The
Berklee Press music resource area provides up-to-date information and
links to other great music-related websites. Music books, cds, dvds, videos,
and other instruction products for educating and training musicians.
Black Diamond Strings and National Picks now has a website. Click to see
their line of banjo strings and their full line of products.
Jay Buckey of the Virtual Band Bluegrass Method
has FREE bluegrass sheet music and tab for the GUITAR, MANDOLIN, BANJO,
DOBRO, BASS AND FIDDLE. Also materials to sharpen musicianship and help
develop personal style.
Musicians-Workshop.com.
Quality DVD music instruction courses for banjo and all musical
instruments since 1973.
Pat Cloud
- New and updated web site with extensive beginner's and bluegrass
instruction sections.
Janet Davis E-mail:
jdmc@janetdavismusic.com
The ezFolk website is an instructional website for guitar
and banjo, mostly geared towards beginners.
Jack
Hatfield Instructional material, strings and accessories, catalog.
E-mail: hatfield@tdsnet.com. Here is a link to Jack hatfield's Tablature Index
Mel Bay
Publications - 50 years of excellence in music publishing.
Murphy Henry. Check out Murphy's "Women in BLuegrass" newsletter.
The
Music Shed is a mail order outlet for bluegrass music CDs and tapes (and
a sister company of Pinecastle Records.
Ken Perlman E-mail:
kenperlman@aol.com
Long-time BNL columnist Harold Streeter has his banjo tab
catalog at www.lewalt.com
Pete Wernick's extensive
web site, includes a wealth of free instructional material, including a
special beginners section, jamming pointers, tablature, and a regular Ask
Dr. Banjo feature. Also a full store with Pete's CDs, DVDs, videos, books.
Calendar, history, MP3s, articles, Notes From the Road, photo albums, more.
Discussion list coming.
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Old-Time Banjo
The
BANJO-L website contains Anita Kermode's compilation of tunings for the
5-string banjo, with discography and bibliography files.
The Blue Sage Trio An
all-acoustic folk trio specializing in the folk songs of the west. Free
downloads of clawhammer banjo tablature and instruction.
Gordon Banks has put together an excellent old-time page, with lots of
links, and tabs of Dwight Diller's.
Wayne Erbsen's
Native Ground Music,
Inc., Your Source for Music of America's Past. Email:
banjo@nativeground.com
The
Old Time Music home page.
The
Mugwumps Online website contains old and new articles about vintage
instruments and playing styles from this classic and now ressurected
magazine. Contact Publisher Michael Holmes by email at:
mholmes@mugwumps.com.
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Individual Artists
The
2nd South Carolina String Band
For Old-Time fans:
Ray
Alden now has a site containing a section titled "artistry in musical
instruments," and more.
Bluegrass Connection has artist information, including sound files from
recent recordings.
Classical 5-string player John Bullard now has a
website where you
can purchase CDs and listen to sound files.
Bob Carlin has revamped his
website,
which includes a list of CarTunes releases, as well as audio clips, bio,
photos and press clippings.
Pat Cloud
- New and updated web site with extensive beginner's and bluegrass
instruction sections.
J.D. Crowe
now has a web page, put together by Chris McGlone, that contains a
discography, references to published articles and tabs, sources for the
above (including of course BNL!) and a few photos.
Danny Barnes,
whose new record 'Dust on the Angel" is getting good reviews, has a new
site.
Bill Evans -
Native and Fine
Bob Flesher's website that contains Bob's CDs, tapes and
instructional books is Dr. Horsehair.
Also a wealth of information and humor about banjos including the history of
the banjo, The First Banjo Contest, Banjo Heros, Converting a Mastertone to
the Round Peak Sound, and others.
Hans Holzherr, who put out the 3-finger banjo record "Deep
Thought from the Hippo," has a site at
http://stop.to/listentobanjocd
Clawgrasser Mark Johnson has a website at
http://www.clawgrass.com
Arnie Naiman and Chris Coole have two great clawhammer CDs.
Read about them
here.
BNL contributor and teacher
Ross Nickerson and the Fast Brothers (866-322-6567)
The legendary
Sonny Osborne now
has an internet site.
Ralph
Stanley
Rolf Seiker (of the German bluegrass band The Seikers) has a
site at:
http://www.a-teamrecords.de It includes some material and photos of
Bobby Thompson.
All Ireland & All Britain banjo champion Tony (Sully)
Sullivan’s website
has banjos, supplies and tutors.
Bart Veerman has posted several
Don Reno tabs. These
tabs were originally published in BNL, transcribed by Ed Chernesky.
Contact Ralph Stanley by e-mail at
RStanleyfc@aol.com
Todd Taylor The Banjoman has a
website.
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Other Banjo
Links
Angie's Banjo page
is all about banjos: instructional books, CDs, DVDs,
banjos, and gear, along with her free monthly banjo magazine "Silver
Strings," which consists of stories from folks who began learning the
banjo as adults, and her learning to play banjo blog.
Banjo
Hazard features banjo tee-shirts and bumper stickers.
Bayside Banjo Aggregation sponsors a site for 'g-string deprived
banjoists, our four stringed cousins.
Tom Biggs has a
website with
information on models and dating old Gibson Mastertone banjos.
British Bluegrass Music Association
Chris B's Music
offers banjos for sale on line, including models
from Deering, Saga, Washburn, Goldtone, Fender and more. Strings too.
Classic
Banjo home page.
Darrel Adkins Productions’ The Bluegrass Classic
Elderly Instruments Vintage instruments including descriptions.
Fingerweights are
designed for musicians, and are worn during practice and warm-up. They are
claimed to increase speed,dexterity,endurance, and control.
http://www.fingerweights.com/Music_Model.shtml. Banjo
players will save 20% when they enter FWCJ07Q3 as the discount code.
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