The Banjo Man’s streak of playing at 49er games will continue. He’ll just have to travel farther south to keep it going. Fairfax’s Stacy Samuels has been wearing the propeller hat, gold t-shirt and ...
LOWELL — Folding chairs clogged the halls of Lowell High School Saturday. The sound of string instruments bounced off blue lockers. Toes tapped. Knees bounced. Heads bobbed. Players of all ages and ...
Call it ragtime, Dixieland jazz or riverboat music, members of the East Bay Banjo Club call it “happy” music and have been playing it for 50 years. Every Tuesday night, banjo amateurs and ...
When Lorraine and Bennett Hammond aren't hanging out in their funky old Brookline home, trading a few banjo and mandolin licks back and forth at the kitchen table, they're apt to be giving concerts of ...
When you pluck a banjo string, you trigger a vibra­tion that res­onates at a fre­quency unique to the geom­etry and mate­rial of the string. We can dis­tin­guish that fre­quency as a par­tic­ular ...