Earl Scruggs

Earl Scruggs

male, 85 years old
Earl Eugene Scruggs (born January 6, 1924) is a musician noted for creating a banjo style (now called Scruggs style) that is a defining...
Tony Trischka

Tony Trischka

male, 60 years old
Tony Trischka (born 1949 in Syracuse, New York) is an American banjoist. He was born in Syracuse, New York and was inspired to play banjo in the...
Doc Watson

Doc Watson

male, 86 years old
Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson, born March 3, 1923 in Deep Gap, North Carolina, is a guitar player, songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country,...
Ralph Stanley

Ralph Stanley

male, 82 years old
Ralph Stanley (born February 25, 1927) is an American bluegrass musician. Stanley was born in Big Spraddle Creek, Virginia, near Stratton,...
Béla Fleck

Béla Fleck

male, 51 years old
Béla Fleck is an American virtuoso banjo player. He is most well known for his work with the band Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, which he has de...
John Hartford

John Hartford

male, deceased (2001)
John Cowan Hartford (December 30 1937- June 4 2001) was an American folk, country and bluegrass composer and musician known for his mastery of the...
Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger

male, 90 years old
Peter Seeger (born May 3, 1919), almost universally known as Pete Seeger, is a folk singer, political activist, and author. As a member of the...
Eugene Chadbourne

Eugene Chadbourne

male, 58 years old
Eugene Chadbourne (January 4, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York) is a USA composer, improvisor, guitarist and banjoist. He has also been a reviewer...
Alison Brown

Alison Brown

female
Alison Brown is an American banjo player. Brown learned to play guitar at eight and banjo at ten. When she was twelve, she met fiddler Stuart...
J. D. Crowe

J. D. Crowe

male, 72 years old
James Dee Crowe (August 27, 1937 in Lexington, Kentucky) is an American banjo player best known as J.D. Crowe. He plays Bluegrass Music with his...