In fact, for this session, Nicolay brought out both a banjo and an accordion.
The instrumentation is an incredibly bare-bones mix of banjo, various guitars, violins and cello.
Scruggs was known for his unique banjo playing technique, which involved just three fingers.
"When I saw Pete Seeger playing the banjo it completely changed my life, " Connolly tells CNN.
Casting Shadows is steeped in the country twinges of lap steel, harmonica, banjo, strings, and acoustic guitars.
C. band uses plucked banjo, programmed beats, and triumphant harmonies to produce complex and enthralling experimental pop.
Following signs marked with a banjo, I pass the evocatively-named Great Dismal Swamp, a national wildlife refuge.
Pioneering banjo player Earl Scruggs, who is credited with helping create modern country music, has died aged 88.
Contributing vocals, banjo, guitar, bass, pedal steel and dobro, Scott became quite the catch within the country scene.
Hollywood actor and fellow banjo player Steve Martin previously paid tribute to Scruggs in the New Yorker magazine.
Mr. Watson first learned to play a fretless banjo made by his father that was sheathed in cat's skin.
The song's lazy banjo and junkyard rhythms effectively paint a portrait of hot workdays in the sun and Hooverville-inspired landscapes.
Le Loup was assembled when banjo player and keyboardist Sam Sinkoff posted some of his laptop recordings on the internet.
She is a Singer, songwriter, clawhammer banjo player, and recording artist who tours the world performing in both English and Chinese.
Other similar mobile "social discovery" apps include Highlight, Banjo and Sonar.
She plays banjo and guitar, and writes most of her own songs.
The band, which just released its first album, MTO Volume One, combines the sounds of violin and banjo alongside trombone and slide trumpet.
He plays the ngoni, the traditional lute from Mali that dates back hundreds of years and is the musical forebear of the American banjo.
Instead, a eclectic mix of instruments are listed, like the glockenspiel, vibraphone, grand marimba, theremin, oboe, viola, banjo, trumpet, trombone, xylophone, piano, and autoharp.
First we lost Earl Scruggs when the great father of bluegrass banjo passed away, and now guitar legend Doc Watson has passed on as well.
Other musicians he rescued from obscurity included Ernest "Pop" Stoneman and renowned banjo player Dock Boggs, who had fallen into poverty after the Great Depression.
The bluegrass defining three finger banjo rolls across the core changes.
They're your pedestal guitar, your Dobro, your fiddle and your banjo.
And, indeed, all it takes is a twist of a knob to go from a six-string Martin to a 12-string Guild or even a Gibson banjo.
Ms. BEV WESLY (Ukulele quartet member): I'm excited because I just ordered a banjo uke from eBay and it's just so exciting and here it is.
Blinded by an eye infection before his first birthday, he learned to play the banjo at the age of five before picking up a guitar in his early teens.
Watson's mastery of flatpicking helped make the guitar a lead instrument in the 1950s and 1960s, when it was often considered a backup for the mandolin, fiddle or banjo.
"The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music, " he recalled in Dirty Linen magazine in 1995.
He also enlists banjo-playing brothers Pete and Mike Seeger and picks up inspired support from The Chieftains' Paddy Moloney, jazz vibraphonist Stefon Harris and his own son, drummer Joachim Cooder.
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