Enter our free giveaway for your chance to win a beautiful new Banjola (with frailing scoop) from Gold Tone!
Light in weight and easy to finger, the Banjola+ is wonderful for fills and solos in all kinds of music with its mandola body and 5-string banjo tuning. The super-comfortable curly maple neck has a bound rosewood fretboard and the curly maple mandola body is bound top and back as well.
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10/18/1859 - Stephen F. Hagan of Albany, NY receives a patent on a 7-string instrument with a guitar neck and a banjo body. Read more....
10/20/1913 - Grandpa Jones Born in Niagara, Kentucky. Read more....
10/19/1933 - Don Parmley born in Monticello, KY. Read more....
10/19/1938 - Vic Jordan born in Washington, D.C. Read more....
10/18/1967 - Tony Furtado is born in Pleasanton, CA. Read more....
10/23/2015 - Bill Keith passes away following a battle with cancer. He was elected just weeks before to the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame.
10/20/2017 - Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn's "Echo In the Valley" is released. This time around, the mission was to take their double banjo combination of three finger and clawhammer styles “to the next level and find things to do together that we had not done before,” says Béla. Read more....
