RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE BANJO PROJECT WEBSITE

Interview transcripts from Joe Thompson, Tony Ellis, George Gibson, and Don Vappie.

Edited footage of an interview and performance by Rhiannon Giddens, fiddler-banjoist-singer with Sankofa Strings. GO

I'd say I was 11 or 12 when I started to pick the banjo. I first learned the clawhammer style from my mother. My aunt, Roxie Smith, had a banjo and they raised hogs and this sow had a litter of pigs. She had a pretty sow pig I wanted...So my mother said, "Now I can't buy the both of them, so do you want the pig or the banjo?" I took the banjo.

~ Ralph Stanley Interview, 1984

NOW IN PRODUCTION

Interviews

This section includes excerpts of interviews from the film. More will be added as production continues:

Link to Bela Fleck interview

Link to Cynthia Sayer interview

Link to Pete Seeger interview

Link to Mike Seeger interview

Link to Don Vappie interview

Link to Joe Tompson interview

Link to Tony Ellis interview

Link to George Gibson interview