Pete Featured in Bluegrass Today

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Joining me for coffee this morning is Peter Wernick, otherwise known as Dr Banjo, so called due to a best-selling banjo instruction book that he wrote, and from his advanced educational degree in Sociology.… Read More

Pete Featured in Fretboard Journal

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This premium publication is noted for in-depth features on musicians and luthiers. Issue #29 devotes 21 pages to Pete, his instruments, and his practice cabin/getaway. David Hidalgo and John Fahey are also featured.… Read More

Russian Receives Award of New Banjo

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Pete scouted the recipient of the 2010 Brian Friesen Award. From the Deering Banjo website: “Liza grew up in an orphanage in Russia, she was 15 and played a banjo that she borrowed from a friend at the time. She … Read More

On the Rize

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Bryan Sutton, the guitarist many regard as the most gifted flatpicker in a generation, believes in practice, not destiny, but he also keeps a snapshot at home taken in 1989 that seemed to foretell his bluegrass future. “When I was fifteen, I went to my first festival in Denton, N.C. and I got to see Jim & Jesse in their cool suits,” Sutton said backstage at June’s Telluride Bluegrass Festival. “Hearing Hot Rize play live had a huge impact on me. All I wanted to do was sound like Hot Rize.”… Read More

From Old Grass to New Grass

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This article appeared on JamBase.com and includes in-depth interviews with Tim, Pete, and Nick.… Read More

Music Man

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This article appeared in the August 2008 issue of Readers Digest.… Read More

Picking the Bluegrass Life

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The following appeared in The Denver Post, November 13, 2005. “Dr. Banjo” Pete Wernick left an ivory-tower job for a rural musical style more in tune with his spirit.… Read More

Wild and Crazy

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The following article by Michael Roberts appeared in the September 15, 2005 issue of Westword.com. Here is a print-friendly PDF. Local twanger Pete Wernick is ready for the national spotlight. “When you get to the highest levels of the entertainment … Read More

Pete and Joan in People Magazine

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Yes, Pete and Joan and son Will are pictured in the current Feb. 16, 2004 issue of People magazine (on Page 76). There’s no musical content, but Joan was interviewed and a picture taken for an article concerning Al Haynes, … Read More

Pow’r Pickin’ Interview with Pete

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Suppose you set out with the objective to have a positive influence on the human condition. Would you strive to be sociologist? Or a bluegrass banjo player? If you were Pete Wernick, a.k.a. Doctor Banjo, you would do both. Pete has credentials as both a Doctor of Sociology and a renowned banjoist who has delighted listeners around the world for the past thirty plus years. Thus, the Doctor Banjo moniker really means something.… Read More

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