This month we are featuring mainly the tenor banjo. We have Ed Bernet on playing too loudly and Chris Smith on traditional Irish music on the tenor banjo. Also featured is John Mumford of jazzbanjo.com demonstrating Eddy Peabody’s take on Amazing Grace.

Even though it looks like a tenor banjo in my photo on the left, it’s really a fi ve string. I’ll prove it by playing my arrangement of the Christmas favorite Carol of the Bells. Upcoming issues will have classical banjo by John Bullard, ragtime by Fred Sokolow, bluegrass by Janet Davis, fi ve string and clawhammer duets by Alan Munde and Wayne Shrubsall, Irish banjo, luthiers, and all things banjo so check by often. If you have any suggestions for articles you’d like to see, please email me at gerald@thegeraldjones.com

     -Gerald Jones

Carol of the Bells
Eddie Peabody
How to Play Irish Traditional
It’s Too LOUD!