It’s easy to pick up the style but difficult to master – but you don’t have to be a master to participate.” For Ingham, clawhammer banjo grows in interest in what he calls the post-traditional age and ...

Orange Tree Samples has released Evolution Clawhammer Banjo, which they describe as a folk-style open back banjo powered by Native Instruments' Kontakt Player. Here's the details direct from the ...

It took time for Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn to harmoniously fit his three-finger style of banjo playing with her clawhammer technique. That accounted for part of the challenge of playing together ...

Jonas Friddle grew up listening to classic rock, Creedence Clearwater Revival, for example. He also heard a lot of folk musicians, including John Prine and Doc Watson, while growing up in the North ...

When Bill Monroe came up with bluegrass–“this high, lonesome sound,” as people called it at the time–banjo players used the clawhammer style. They flailed with their fingers and hands to play chords.