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  2. List of banjo players - Wikipedia

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    The first consists of primary banjo players and the second of celebrities that also play the banjo This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .

  3. American Banjo Museum Hall of Fame members - Wikipedia

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    2014 American Banjo Museum Hall of Fame Award for Earl Scruggs. The American Banjo Museum Hall of Fame, formerly known as the National Four-String Banjo Hall of Fame, recognizes musicians. bands, or companies that have made a distinct contribution to banjo performance, education, manufacturing, and towards promotion of the banjo.

  4. List of bluegrass musicians - Wikipedia

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    Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this list. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "List of bluegrass musicians" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( June 2015 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message )

  5. Earl Scruggs - Wikipedia

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    It was the first time a prominent bluegrass banjo player had played any brand other than a Gibson. [48] Scruggs participated in Vega's marketing campaign that claimed that the banjo was constructed to Scruggs's design specifications, which was true, but the finished product fell short of his expectations. [ 42 ]

  6. International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame - Wikipedia

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    Fiddle player Neil Rosenberg 2014 March 21, 1939 – Author and music historian, banjo player [7] The Original Seldom Scene: 2014 Mike Auldridge (December 30, 1938) John Duffey (March 4, 1934) Ben Eldridge (August 15, 1938) Tom Gray (February 1, 1941) John Starling (March 26, 1940) December 29, 2012 December 10, 1996 – – May 2, 2019 Band ...

  7. List of bluegrass bands - Wikipedia

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    This is an alphabetical list of bluegrass bands. A bluegrass band is a group of musicians who play acoustic stringed instruments, typically some combination of guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo, dobro and upright bass, to perform bluegrass music .

  8. Joe Mullins (musician) - Wikipedia

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    Joe is widely considered one of the world's most accomplished five-string banjo players in the traditional bluegrass style. Although primarily a Scruggs style player, his playing is also influenced by the work of J.D. Crowe, Sonny Osborne, and Don Reno. Vocal influences are apparent from the Osborne Brothers and Paul Williams.

  9. John Hartford - Wikipedia

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    Hartford said often that the first time he heard Earl Scruggs pick the banjo, it changed his life. By age 13, Hartford was an accomplished old-time fiddler and banjo player, and he soon learned to play guitar and mandolin as well. Hartford performed with his first bluegrass band while attending John Burroughs School, a local private high school.