www.youtube.com/user/LukeBanjo
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Playing Since: 2011
Experience Level: Purty Good
Occupation: Student
Gender: Male
Age: 31
My Instruments:
Banjo:
Recording King RK-75 Elite, Hoping for a Stelling Staghorn
Guitar:
Martin OM-1
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Radiohead, The Black Keys, Béla Fleck, Steve Martin, The Punch Brothers,The Kruger Brothers, The Avett Brothers, Mumford and Sons, Flaming Lips, Justin Townes Earle, too many more to name.....
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Created 1/6/2013
Last Visit 7/23/2015
I started playing the banjo May 22, 2011. I already had some prior experience with fingerpicking on guitar so I figured the banjo would be the next logical step to really expand on my picking. Right after my birthday on Cinco de Mayo I decided to use some of my birthday money to buy a banjo. I started off with an Oscar Schmidt OM-1 and immediately fell in love with the instrument. I played for a few months on that "tin can" until I knew for sure that the banjo would be a lifelong instrument. I then payed a little visit to the savings account that October and took the next big step up to my current banjo, a Recording King RK-75 elite. Since then I've been playing and writing every chance I get and have loved every second of it. The instrument has actually payed itself off by now due to my weekly performances with a local bluegrass band in a restaurant in Rome, GA. I also received a $1000 scholarship for winning the Rome, GA Kiwanis Club Music Showcase with a piece that I wrote. I now attend the University of Georgia in Athens hoping to eventually become an orthodontist and continue to play the banjo any chance I get.
