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Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Genre: Other
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Genre: Jazz
Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
www.c-4a.org
Playing Since: 1975
Experience Level: Purty Good
Interests:
[Teaching] [Jamming] [Socializing] [Helping]
Occupation: musician, music educator
Gender: Male
My Instruments:
banjos currently in the house:
2016 Kevin Enoch custom
1926 Vega Tubaphone
1896 SS Stewart American Princess
1926 Gibson TB-4 tenor
20s SS Stewart Lady Stewart
2010 gourd banjo by Peter Fagan, of Urbana, IL
2010 gourd banjo made by Michael Meadows, of Urbana, IL
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
All the people I play with.
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Created 3/12/2008
Last Visit 2/4/2025
I have been teaching guitar and banjo for about 40 years, and have played professionally for most of that time. I am the program director at the Community Center for the Arts, in Urbana, Illinois. I am also an ethnomusicologist, on the faculty at Illinois State University.