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Ray Alden (July 2, 1942 – September 19, 2009) was active in the Old Time Music community for nearly 40 years. He had taught at The Tennessee Banjo Institute, Augusta Folk Heritage Institute, Banjo Camp North, appeared in concerts, workshops, and on recordings.
As a teenager, he won major banjo contests and participated in banjo workshops at the 1969 Newport Folk Festival and at Carlton Haney's 1969 Camp Springs Bluegrass Festival, in Reidsville, North Carolina. While serving in the United States Army in South Carolina, Robins was introduced to Snuffy Jenkins & Pappy Sherrill.
Terry Baucom (October 6, 1952 – December 7, 2023) was an American bluegrass banjo player, fiddle player, vocalist and band leader. He was nicknamed "The Duke of Drive" for his propelling, driving banjo style. He led his band, The Dukes of Drive, and was a founding member of Boone Creek, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, and IIIrd Tyme Out. [2]
Happy Traum has described Jens Kruger as "one of the world's most musically sophisticated and technically accomplished five-string banjo players." [7] The recording that cemented the Kruger Brothers' sound and song writing, Up 18 North, was released in 2002 on the Double Time Inc. label.
His best known album, Gibson & Camp at the Gate of Horn, was released in 1961. His songs have been recorded by, among others, The Limeliters , Peter, Paul and Mary , Simon & Garfunkel ('You Can Tell The World'), The Seekers , The Byrds , The Smothers Brothers , Phil Ochs , The Kingston Trio and Bob Dylan .
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He taught banjo at the Augusta Heritage Center's Old Time Week in Elkins, West Virginia and at the Midwest Banjo Camp, [3] in Olivet, Michigan. Baugus released his first album, Life of Riley, in 2001. A second album, Long Steel Rail, was released in 2006. [4] He lives in Walkertown, North Carolina. [2]
A seventh-generation ballad singer, storyteller, and claw-hammer banjo player, Sheila Kay Adams was born and raised in the Sodom Laurel community of Madison County, North Carolina, an area renowned for its unbroken tradition of unaccompanied singing of traditional southern Appalachian ballads that dates back to the early Scots/Irish and English Settlers in the mid-17th century.