November 2021 Issue

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The Tradition

The Artists

Fiddler  Mike Barnett

By Bill Conger

Longs For Return To Playing  Photos By Stacie Huckaba After four years of hard work,…

Béla Fleck

By Derek Halsey

Goes Deep into his  New 19-cut Album  My Bluegrass Heart Photos by Kevin Slick “I…

Steve Dilling

By Sandy Hatley

 A Great Banjo Picker and a Good Person Steve Dilling is a very humble and…

Jeremy Stephens

By Bill Conger

How He Hears It   Photos By Amy Richmond Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Jeremy Stephens of…

The Sound

The Story of  a Stelling

By Chuck Dunlop

On November 14, 1995, a Stelling Sunflower banjo—serial number 4356— began its journey from the…

The Richest Man

By Casey L. Penn

“When COVID-19 hit, it was obvious things were going to slow down,” recalled Buddy Melton,…

The Old Man  and the C-Clamp

By David McCarty

Photos by Cindy Matheson At an age when most people have slowed down, 99-year-old Buckeye…

The Venue

Milton Harkey

By Sandy Hatley

The Man Behind the Curtain “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain,”is a…