FEATURED VIDEOS
Jamming on a Train in Russia
Pete and Russian bands jam on a train, and at first Russian Bluegrass Festival in Vologda.
Long Road Home - Headed Back to Dixieland
Martin Gilmore's new song, I'm Headed Back to Dixieland is big fun to play with Long Road Home.
Hot Rize on Mountain Stage
NPR show from WV, Nov. 2010, report w. live music, Tim O'Brien interview.
Life, Bluegrass, & Dr. Banjo
News Feature Channel 9, Denver. 3-minute report shows Pete at his practice cabin and with FLEXIGRASS.
Pete with Earl Scruggs and Steve Martin on Letterman
Sept. 05 Historic 5-banjo Foggy Mt. Breakdown, Men With Banjos (Who Know How to Use Them) w. Tony Ellis & Charles Wood.
Doc Watson & Friends - Farewell Blues
Pete with Jerry Douglas, Jack Lawrence, Tim O'Brien, and T. Michael Coleman.
Featured!
Pete and Joan on Good Morning Denmark First time Scruggs-style banjo was played live on Danish TV! The famed Tivoli Gardens is in the background.
Free Video Lesson!Clary Mae
Pete will be sharing some of his most-requested solos free, right here on DrBanjo.com. The song can be found on the new Hot Rize album "When I'm Free." Get the tab here.
Click for previous video lessons
Pete's Tab Archive Now Online!
For the first time ever, over 240 solos by Pete on Hot Rize and Country Cooking albums -- since 1971 -- are now online for download. Includes the new Hot Rize album! Click for details.
Jam Class video!
Watch a Wernick Method class, and hear
what the students and teacher say! Thanks
Fred Boettger, for a fun 4-minute report.
7 years of Pete's Banjo Newsletter columns!
now complete from January 2007 through January of 2014.
Chord photos!
All jammers need to know how to "read" guitar chords. Click here for clear photos of the most common ones.
| Apr 22-25 | MerleFest, NC | Bluegrass Camp |
| Jun 21-26 | Lake George, NY | Bluegrass Camp |
NEWS ARCHIVE HIGHLIGHTS
- Go to Full Archive
- Pete's presents Steve Martin IBMA's Distinguished Achievement Award
- Hot Rize plays the streets of New York
- 16-year old NC picker awarded prize banjo
- Red Knuckles releases Night of the Living Red
- Mike Scap passes
- Pete’s Memories of Earl
- 1980 video of Pete pickin and discussin'...
- Pete featured in Bluegrass Today!
- Ask Dr. Banjo: Hot Rize Touring Moments
- Pete discontinuing Banjo Camps
- Pete featured in Fretboard Journal
- Pete and Joan tour Russia
- Pete featured in Columbia alumni magazine
- Banjorama!
- Pete Seeger report and tribute
- Pickin' Up The Pieces flood benefit
- Pete helps Russian teenage picker get her first banjo
- Pete interview in Westword
- An Up-Close Remembrance of Earl Scruggs
- Doc Watson Remembrance
- Pete's statement re Earl Scruggs
- Pete interview in International Bluegrass
- Pete Wernick, Steve Martin to Get Their Banjo On in Denver
- Pete and Joan weather tsunami threat!
- New article on Hot Rize on JamBase.com
- Red Rocks Report: Mammoth Music Lesson May Be World's Largest
- What The Wins IBMA CD Design Award!
- Pete's Merlefest Report
- He'd Like To Teach The World To Jam: Pete Wernick's Jam Camps
- Jamming Down Under!
- Pete's Articles in New Parenting Book
- Pete's Tribute to Earl Scruggs
- Listen to Earl Scruggs Comment on Pete on ETown Performance
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Pete's Remembrances:
Louise Scruggs, Jimmy Martin, John Herald, John Hartford, Frank Edmonson, Winnie Winston, Mike Seeger, Ed Dye and Richie Shulberg
(personal recollections of notable people who have passed away in recent years) - Pete Inducted into Colorado Bluegrass Hall of Honor
- Pete Prepares for Letterman
- Pete and Joan on Mars!
- Banjo Claus! Pete and Don Rigsby give away banjos in Kentucky elementary schools
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| 6/29 | Silver Bay Auditorium Lake George, NY |
Pete Wernick, Joan Wernick, and Wernick Method teachers |
| 7/19-20 | Snowygrass Estes Park, CO |
Pete & Joan Wernick |
| 8/2 | Live at Lunch on KRFC-FM Ft Collins, CO |
Long Road Home |
| 8/2 | Avogadro’s Number Ft Collins, CO |
Long Road Home |
| 8/17 | Douglas Hall Evergreen, CO |
Pete & Joan Wernick |
| 10/19 | Douglas Hall Evergreen, CO |
Long Road Home |
NEWS
Hot Rize 40th Anniversary Bash
Forty-one years to the day after their first gig, Jan. 18-19 1978 at the Hungry Farmer in Boulder, Hot Rize returned to their current home base, the Boulder Theater. Their special guest: bluegrass music's most awarded fiddler, the amazing Michael Cleveland. The band's Hot Rize 40th Anniversary Bash, released on both CD and a 2-LP set last summer, rode the Billboard bluegrass chart for over 3 months. It's available in the Store of this site as well as at hotrize.com. Click here for promo video for the album. The band will be pausing for the rest of the year while Tim stays busy promoting his new album.
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