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3 unusual facts about banjo


Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge

In Scribes, Leigh Loveday said that the ability for Banjo and Kazooie to fly was removed because it just would not have worked out in the game.

ProFe Banjo

Named for the musical instrument of the same name, the Banjo series of gliders consists of three models, the basic glider model, a powered version and the two seat DuoBanjo.

Suspension of disbelief

In contrast, some games show falling into water as completely safe when in reality the impact would be lethal (most notably in Banjo-Kazooie).


4-string banjo

The Brazilian 4-string banjo was first introduced by musician Almir Guineto in the late 1970s and early 1980s, attending on one hand the necessity for a louder instrument similar to the cavaco, and on the other, the drive for innovation.

Alexa Woodward

She later ventured out to perform at other public venues such as Banjo Jim's, the American Folk Art Museum, Pete's Candy Store, and The Living Room.

Almir Guineto

His records have a particular samba sound that became trademarked as Almir's, frequently with strong use of the banjo, and with Mauro Diniz often being responsible for the cavaquinho.

Banjo Island, Bermuda

Banjo Island is an island of Bermuda, in St. George's Parish.

Baywood, Virginia

The old-time banjo player Haywood Blevins was recorded at Baywood by Peter Hoover on August 25, 1961, and the banjo player James Spencer Caudill was recorded at his home in Baywood by Blanton Owen on March 21, 1974; both of these recordings are housed at the Library of Congress's Archive of Folk Culture.

Burkeville, Virginia

Polk Miller, renowned old time banjo-player, story-teller, veterinarian, and Confederate veteran; was born on a plantation just west of Burkeville in 1844.

Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure and Unknown Recordings

Robert Buck - guitars, mandolin, steel, banjo, devices, synthesizer

Charles K. Harris

From his early fascination with the banjo, he wrote his first song "Since Maggie Learned To Skate" for the play The Skating Rink by Nat Goodwin in 1885.

Charles River Valley Boys

Although the group's membership changed frequently, the core performers of the Charles River Valley Boys in the early years were Eric Sackheim (guitar, mandolin), Bob Siggins (banjo, vocals), and Clay Jackson (guitar, vocals), all students at Harvard, and Ethan Signer (guitar, mandolin, autoharp, vocals), a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Chris Hersch

From 2004 to 2012, Chris Hersch taught guitar, banjo, and general music at many schools in the Boston area: Powers Music School (Belmont, Massachusetts), Cape Cod Conservatory (Falmouth MA), Community Music Center of Boston (Boston), Brookline Music School (Brookline, Mass), and BU High School (Boston).

Comedy Is Not Pretty!

One track was simply a humorous reading of a short story from his book Cruel Shoes accompanied by a banjo solo in the background.

EarMaster

Questions are answered with on-screen interfaces (staff, piano, guitar, bass, violin, cello, banjo and several other string instruments), a multiple choice option, a MIDI instrument, or through a microphone (voice, clapping or acoustic instruments).

Finnegan Wakes

But it was also their first to feature their first established line-up of Ronnie Drew (vocals/guitar), Barney McKenna (tenor banjo)/mandolin), Luke Kelly (vocals/banjo), Ciaran Bourke (vocals/guitar/tin whistle/harmonica) and John Sheahan (fiddle/tin whistle/mandolin).

G major

This is in part because of its relative ease of playing on both keyboard and string instruments: its scale comprises only one black note on the keyboard, all of a guitar's six strings can be played open in G, half of the strings on the mandolin and violin/fiddle are in the G chord when open, and the banjo is usually tuned to open G. It is the key stipulated by Queen Elizabeth II to be used for "God Save the Queen" in Canada.

Harry Stewart

In 1927 Stewart worked as an announcer, weather reporter, newsman and banjo player on KVI, a radio station that had recently started in Tacoma.

I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground

In an earlier version of this song (Okeh, 1925) the banjo is even more remarkable in its halting rhythms, and the singer decided he would "rather be a lizzard sic..."

Jamal Millner

As a 5 year old, he appeared playing banjo in a Yale University documentary entitled Banjo Man (now out of print) with musicians Taj Mahal and Afro-Appalachian banjo master Uncle John Homer.

Jarrell

Tommy Jarrell (1901-1985), US-American fiddler, banjo player, and singer

Jenny Queen

Musicians on After The Dance include Jon Graboff of Ryan Adams and The Cardinals on pedal steel, Eric Silver on mandolin, Marc Swersky on bass, Justin King on electric guitar, Ehren Ebbage on acoustic guitar and Andy Letke of DeSol on rhodes piano and banjo.

Jimmy Martin

This band with Rudy Lyle (banjo) and Charlie Cline (fiddle) was one of the many high points of Monroe's career.

John Pearse

In his teens he played the guitar and banjo in a Jazz band, then moved to London in the 1950s where he made a living as a guitar teacher and musician.

Jono Pandolfi

He is married to Erica Duecy, the Hotels and Restaurants Editor at Fodor's Travel Guides, and his brother, Chris Pandolfi, plays banjo in The Infamous Stringdusters.

Just Like Blood

John Hogg – Bass (1-4,7,9), Banjo (4), Percussion (4), Guitar (7), Arp (7), Piano (9)

Lester Flatt

Lester Raymond Flatt (June 19, 1914 – May 11, 1979) was a bluegrass guitarist and mandolinist, best known for his collaboration with banjo picker Earl Scruggs in the The Foggy Mountain Boys (popularly known as "Flatt and Scruggs").

Lisbee Stainton

In 2012 Seth Lakeman was so impressed with Lisbee that he subsequently invited her to become part of his band singing and playing the banjo, harmonium, guitar and harmonica.

Lloyd Hunter

In 1927 it become an 8-piece band with Lloyd Hunter on trumpet, Elmer Crumbley on trombone, Noble Floyd on clarinet and alto sax, Bob Welch on trombone, tenor sax and bass sax; Burton Brewer on piano; Julius Alexander on banjo; Wallace Wright on tuba, and; Amos Clayton on drums.

Lou Black

Born in Rock Island, Illinois, he began playing banjo during early childhood and became professional in 1917.

Marek Weber

Despite his personal distaste for the new style, his band included some of the strongest jazz talent in Germany, notably the trumpeters Arthur Briggs and Rolf Goldstein, the pianist Martin Roman, and the banjo player Mike Danzi.

Mark Schatz

Mark Schatz (born April 23, 1955) is an American bassist, banjoist, mandolinist, and clogger who has recorded and toured with artists such as albums for artists such as Bela Fleck, Nickel Creek, Jerry Douglas, Maura O'Connell, Tony Rice, John Hartford, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, and Tim O'Brien.

Monkee Flips

The album cover showed a still of the Monkees (with Peter Tork playing a banjo), from the television episode "It's A Nice Place To Visit".

Niall Vallely

It featured a diverse range of guests including brother Cillian on uilleann pipes, Zoë Conway on fiddle, Cian O’Duill on viola, Kate Ellis on cello, Neil Yates on trumpet and flugelhorn, Ed Boyd and Paul Meehan on guitars and Brian Morrissey on bodhrán, percussion and banjo.

Old Man Luedecke

Old Man Luedecke is the recording name of 2-time Juno Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter and banjo player, Chris Luedecke, of Chester, Nova Scotia.

Porter Grainger

Four of these records, made with his ensemble the Get Happy Band, are of special interest to collectors of early jazz, as these albums featured performances by the soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet, as well as by Duke Ellington sidemen Joe “Tricky Sam” Nanton (trombone) and Elmer Snowden (banjo).

Presenting The New Christy Minstrels

He also included banjo player Billy Cudmore, folk-blues singer Terry Cudmore, folk singer Dolan Ellis, jazz singer Peggy Connelly, and singer/guitarist Art Podell.

Red Roundtree

Luther 'Red' Roundtree, (born August 4, 1905 in Mount Pleasant, Texas - died April 30, 1990) was an American plectrum banjo player and co-founder of The Banjo Kings in 1951, an American banjo band.

Samantha Crain

Frontier Ruckus's Matthew Milia and David Jones are featured on the song "Santa Fe" with Milia on vocals and Jones on banjo.

Sandy Bull

An arrangement of Carl Orff's composition Carmina Burana for 5-string banjo appears on his first album and other musical fusions include his adaptation of Luiz Bonfá's "Manhã de Carnaval", a lengthy variation on "Memphis Tennessee" by Chuck Berry, and compositions derived from works of J. S. Bach and Roebuck Staples.

Tex Morton

This approach was followed by other Australian country artists who followed in his footsteps, such as Buddy Williams and Slim Dusty, leading to a particular genre of country music - the Australian bush ballad, which was also influenced by the turn-of-the-century poetry of 'Banjo' Patterson and Henry Lawson.

The Allen Brothers

The brothers were born and raised in Sewanee, Tennessee and they both learned to sing and play musical instruments, Austin played the banjo while Lee concentrated on the guitar and kazoo.

The Dust Busters

They have met with individuals such as banjo player, Pat Conte, Alice Gerrard, Clyde Davenport, the late fiddler Joe Thompson.

The Eveready Hour

The host for many years was the banjo-playing vocalist Wendell Hall, "The Red Headed Music Maker," who wrote the popular "It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'" (Victor Records).

The Graveyard Book

It includes a version of "Danse macabre" played by Béla Fleck, which Fleck provided after reading on Gaiman's blog that he hoped for "Danse Macabre with banjo in it".

The Silver Fez

Once upon a time in a city at the end of Africa, Kaatji Davids, a house painter with barely two cents to his name, an old banjo and a few very close friends had the audacity to imagine that he would be the one to beat Hadji Bucks, undisputed champion of Cape Malay music.

The Triolettes

The Crooning Banjo Sisters played on Syracuse, New York radio stations WFBL and WSYR.

Tom Fun Orchestra

The band features an unconventional mix of electric and acoustic instruments, including violin, banjo, accordion, trumpet, double bass, electric guitars and drums, and have elicited comparisons to acts ranging from The Clash, Tom Waits and The Pogues to The Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene.

Waiting for Herb

James Fearnley - accordion, dulcimer, guitar, piano, harmonica, clarinet, banjo

Jem Finer - banjo, soprano sax, hurdygurdy, guitar, pachinko, backing vocals


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