Earl Eugene Scruggs (January 6, 1924 – March 28, 2012) was an American musician noted for popularizing a three-finger banjo picking style, now called "Scruggs style", which is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music.

1 day ago · Earl Scruggs Music Festival held its inaugural event in 2022, in partnership with WNCW 88.7 and Isothermal Community College in Spindale, NC, alongside the Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby, NC. The festival continues to support these beneficiaries, who are dedicated to preserving Scruggs’ legacy, promoting musical education, and celebrating the ...

Mar 24, 2025 · Earl Scruggs (born January 6, 1924, Flint Hill, North Carolina, U.S.—died March 28, 2012, Nashville, Tennessee) was an American bluegrass banjoist, the developer of a unique instrumental style that helped to popularize the five-string banjo.

Earl Eugene Scruggs, the most influential and imitated banjo player in the world, was born on a forty-acre cotton farm in the little Flint Hill community of Cleveland County on January 6, 1924. The youngest child of George Elam Scruggs and Lula …

Mar 28, 2012 · Earl Scruggs, once compared to violinist Niccolo Paganini, not only pioneered the three-finger banjo but played it to standards of taste and technique unmatched by thousands of disciples over seven decades.

Mar 29, 2012 · Banjo player Earl Scruggs, who helped define the sound of bluegrass, died Wednesday morning. Scruggs, who began playing the banjo when he was four years old, just after his father died, and...

10 years ago, on March 28, 2012, Earl Eugene Scruggs, noted for popularizing a three-finger banjo-picking style that bears his famous name, passed away. The Scruggs style became a defining characteristic not just of the banjo but of bluegrass music.

Earl's Memorial Service was held at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. WSM radio (clear channel 650) broadcast the Service, and you can listen to it by clicking here. Read the Tennessean's retrospective story from Thursday March 29th here.

Mar 29, 2012 · Earl Scruggs, the bluegrass banjo player whose hard-driving picking style influenced generations of musicians and helped shape the sound of 20th-century country music with his guitar-strumming...

Earl Scruggs was born and grew up near Shelby, North Carolina in Cleveland County. Located in the Piedmont section of the state, it is an area known for its strongholds of banjo enthusiasm. Earl's father, George Elam Scruggs, was a farmer and a bookkeeper.