Banjo | Jack Hatfield | Beginning | Period 1 | Week 2 (July 13-18, 2025)
Class description coming soon!
About the Instructor
Jack Hatfield has been picking banjo since he was seventeen years old. After a career teaching private lessons, writing Banjo Newsletter columns and Mel Bay instruction books, organizing several USTA tennis teams and running his banjo shop and annual Smoky Mountain Banjo Academy and performing around East Tennessee, he is currently retired from his banjo camp and day-to-day operations at Hatfield Music. He has left the business in the capable hands of favorite sister Jane. He is still available to answer customer questions and perform banjo setups.
Jack still appears at various banjo workshops and camps, directs the annual SPBGMA banjo workshop in Nashville, and performs with his bluegrass band True Blue, his Americana band Hatfield’s Heathens and his jam-grass band Acoustic Tone Zone. He viewed the 2016 wildfire total loss as an opportunity to divulge from anything not related to studying the banjo, so his current “job” is performing, practicing banjo forty hours per week and working on a solo banjo album. The project will showcase many recently-discovered approaches to banjo technique and include a few of the more than one hundred original tunes he has written since his 2016.