New York 5-String Banjo Instructor List

Albany

Name: Bob Altschuler
Style: Scruggs
Email: arobanjo@aol.com
URL: www.dyerswitch.com
Phone: 518-475-7926

Glenn Weiser
http://www.celticguitarmusic.com/banj.htm

Brooklyn

Name: Earl Harrington
Styles: Beginner-Advanced Earl Scruggs 5 String / Basic Clawhammer
Email: banjolessonsnyc@gmail.com
URL:  http://www.banjolessonsnyc.com
Phone:   347-618-8212

Name: Alan Friend
Style: Old-Time Clawhammer (Beginning, Intermediate)
Email: alanfriend_music@mindspring.com
URL: http://a.friend.home.mindspring.com
Phone: 1-718-965-4074


Brooklyn, Cobble Hill

Name: Sandy Israel
Style: Scruggs, melodic, single string, and clawhammer styles.
Email: citigrass@earthlink.net :
Phone: 718-923-5657


Middletown

Name: Nate Zaur
Style: Scruggs
Email: mmpart02@warwick.net
Phone: 845-887-4039

Mount Upton

Name: Dennis Crawford
Style: Scruggs (beginner/intermediate levels)
Email: dcrawford@clarityconnect.com
Phone: 607-764-8453


New York City

Ben Freed
benfreed@aol.com
914-273-6545
bluegrass banjo lessons

Name: Jack Baker
Style: Bluegrass banjo, fingerpicking folk guitar, theory
Email: jbaker7@ix.netcom.com
URL: http://www.frettedinstrumentsnyc.com
Phone: 646-526-3351

Name: Robin Greenstein
Style: old time, clawhammer/ frailing, old-time 2 and 3 finger picking, and beginner bluegrass.
Email: robinpg@aol.com
URL: http://www.robingreenstein.com
Phone: 212-877-2662

Name: Roger Sprung
Style: Scruggs
Email: roger_sprung_folk@sbcglobal.net
http://www.rogersprung.com
Phone: :(203) 426-5243


Name:   Michael P. Wolfsohn
Styles:  Beginner - Advanced Scruggs, Reno, Keith 
Email:   TotalControlMusicSys@gmail.com
Phone:  347-240-6613

Name: Terry Dignon
Style: Clawhammer
Website: http://www.terrydignon.com
Email: tdignon@gmail.com
Phone: 718-350-5691

Queens Banjo Teacher/Instructor

Name: Evan Murphy
Style: Bluegrass, Clawhammer
Email: ejmurphy2012@gmail.com
Phone: (617) 291-2517

City:  Queens, NY

Name: Nick Russo 
Style:  5 string  (Earl Scruggs technique), tenor banjo (with a plectrum), mandolin, resonator/slide, ukulele and guitar 
Email:  nickrussoguitartrio@gmail.com
Phone: 516-982-7496
URL: http://www.banjonickrusso.com

Staten Island

Name: Marc Horowitz
Style: Scruggs, all three-finger styles and also clawhammer
Email: toptension@yahoo.com
Phone: 718-981-1166

Sea Cliff, NY (Nassau County, Long Island) 11579

Phil White
philj200@yahoo.com
Style: Banjo / Bluegrass, Clawhammer
Also instruction in fingerpicking and flat-picking guitar. Autoharp, mandolin and blues harp.


Voorheesville, NY

Tom Thorpe
TTthorpe@msn.com
Style: Scruggs and Celtic
Also instruction in mandolin and guitar.
Voorheesville, NY 12186

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