Banjo | Cathy Fink | Beginning | Period 3 | Week 3 (July 21-26, 2024)
We’re gonna make some good noise! Start from the beginning-holding the banjo, tuning the banjo, get started with clawhammer and even a little 2 finger picking on the right hand. We’ll learn a few chords, a few songs, a few tunes and you’ll be loving that five-string thing!
About the Instructor
Cathy Fink has been a touring, recording, teaching folk artist for fifty years. Her musical specialties include old-time country, bluegrass, swing and various other
roots styles. Cathy is a master of the five-string clawhammer banjo style and plays guitar, ukulele and fiddle. Her album, “Banjo Haiku” has been hailed a classic and
her album “Banjo Talkin’” received a GRAMMY nomination. She was the first woman to win the West Virginia State Old Time Banjo Contest (1980) and the Clifftop Appalachian Stringband Festival Banjo Contest (2018). Cathy is a two- time GRAMMY Award winner with partner, Marcy Marxer. Together they have released fifty albums. Their career includes tours of the US, Canada, Japan, China, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, The British Isles, Israel and South Africa. Cathy & Marcy consider themselves “Social Music Conductors”, encouraging folks of all ages to celebrate music together.