This year has been great! So many of my ideas are starting to gel, it's like a metamorphosis...   Read More

The Gold Tone Banjo Company is producing a banjo strap I designed called the Slinger.  Read More

I am currently working on a retro/romantic album of original tunes with the working title of Dreaming in Black and White...  Read More

Tone may seem like an odd place to start from when learning banjo but your voice quality starts from the very first time you pick the strings. Think of it like this: if you can play one note perfectly- just one note- you are as great as any musician that ever existed on that one note. I believe everyone can play one note perfectly.  Read More

Rule 12: Rules are made to be broken.  Read More

“This Machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender”

I borrowed this message from Pete Seeger but I suggest changing one word and that would be to replace hate with fear. I believe that fear is the real enemy now.

Every day it seems a little piece of our liberties are traded away. And the only true security, whether personal or economic, is through the Spirit and our connection to community. My hope is that, with this site, I can contribute to other people in the Banjo and Bluegrass communities and share an appreciation of banjo as a vehicle and voice.

Many thanks to Arterial for the use of the photo used as the background image on this site.