It all started with the Kingston Trio. One day in 1963, a San Diego kid and his friends got their hands on an album by the popular folk group. Greg Deering, 12 at the time, recalls studying the ...

With over 50 years in the music business as the “String Wizard” in the seminal group the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, multiple Grammy-winner John McEuen has played more than 8,500 concerts, performed on ...

It all started with the Kingston Trio. One day in 1963, a San Diego kid and his friends got their hands on an album by the popular folk group. Greg Deering, 12 at the time, recalls studying the ...

Today marks banjo pioneer Pete Wernick’s 75th birthday. To celebrate, he’ll be performing a livestream as part of the banjo company Deering’s livestream programming. The show will begin at 6 p.m. ET. ...

Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. From its factory in Spring Valley, Deering Banjo Company has made more than 100,000 banjos ...

When asked the location of the single largest producer of banjos in the United States, one might be tempted to guess Tennessee or Kentucky. The correct answer, though, is here in Spring Valley.

The Winston Marshall Signature Model is, in his own words, the ultimate touring banjo. Every detail of this banjo has a purpose and is the result of more than a year of close collaboration between ...

It all started with the Kingston Trio. One day in 1963, a San Diego kid and his friends got their hands on an album by the popular folk group. Greg Deering, 12 at the time, recalls studying the ...

In 1963, when the folk-music trend made a young Greg Deering want to learn to play the banjo, his mother said no. But he was obsessed, desperate to create the sounds he had heard on a Kingston Trio ...

Deering Banjo Company is thrilled to announce the launch of the Lewes Gentlemen of the Road Banjo Charity Auction featuring the first of five truly unique banjos signed by Mumford & Sons. In 2012 ...

In each session, Kruger will reveal secrets of his playing and offer advanced musical concepts that you can apply to your banjo playing. Kruger is a master 5 string banjoist and highly accomplished ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SPRING VALLEY, Calif. – As other states try ...