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Pete named TOP LOCAL INSTRUMENTALIST by Denver’s Rocky Mountain News in their Top of the Rocky Awards.… Read More

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

Dear Pete, Thanks for being so generous all through the years, both with your music and with yourself! I “discovered” your web site today and wanted to add my voice to the throngs of people who are forever in your debt for inspiring us to be better banjo players and better people.… Read More

This article by Bill McKay originally appeared in the September 1996 issue of Banjo Newsletter. For most musicians, mastering a new lick or tune now and then is rewarding enough. And if any of us are lucky enough to grow … Read More

The following appeared in the July 1979 issue of Banjo Newsletter. Neither the subject of this interview nor the questioner need any introduction to the readers of BNL. Peter Wernick and Tony Trischka have been in the forefront of banjo … Read More