Local performers who play clawhammer include Katie Trautz, Pete Sutherland, Mackenzie, Mark Greenberg, Ingham’s group Kick ‘em Jenny String Band and others. If you are intrigued enough to want to ...

encouraged him to learn that instrument as a young musician and he did so in the traditional American style of picking known as "clawhammer." These days, Kelleher, who also plays acoustic guitar ...

Gary Antol went full circle through several musical phases before he rediscovered one that is sending him on his first cross-country tour. Antol fronts The Jakob's Ferry Stragglers, a Pittsburgh ...

died Thursday at the age of 89, his grandson announced. Stanley — a virtuoso clawhammer banjoist and founder of the groundbreaking band the Clinch Mountain Boys — "went peacefully in his sleep ...

More specifically, he's become "smitten" with clawhammer banjo – that is, the highly rhythmic, down-picking, fingernail-driven approach to the banjo's five strings. Stone, who's called Colorado ...