Rating: - Great magazine
This magazine fills a niche for serious banjo players who are interested in conventions, jams, new products, technical tips and specific samples of new and traditional music. I look forward to each issue.
Rating: - Banjo Players Need This
Banjo Newsletter has been around longer than I've played banjo, and I've played 25 years or so. I play old-time banjo and depend on BNL for new tablatures. It has plenty of information for pickers who play other styles. It's also THE place to look for banjo supplies and suppliers.
Rating: - Excellent publication!
The Banjo Newsletter is an excellent and informative publication. It is a must-read for any 5-string banjo player. No matter what style of music you play, this magazine will give you many helpful ideas to improve your playing and enjoyment of the banjo.
Rating: - Best banjo publication in the world!
If it is about banjo--Banjo Newsletter has it. Bluegrass, old time, classical, jazz, minstel, gourd--all styles are featured in this magazine. Interviews of artists, builders, historians. Information on festivals, camps, and classified ads. My copies are always on time and this last year--there are now color photos instead of just black and white. The monthly print newsletter is supported by an online page of MP3s of the tablatures in the newsletter.
BNL has an international following and I have made many friends from this contact.
BNL is both a joy and a bargain.
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Rating: - all banjo every page not too much BS
I have subscribed to about 40 music magazines in the 43 years I have been playing various instruments. Too many of them have so much stuff that is not about music, that you have to struggle to find something useful. One doesn't care about how some top musician gets along with his wife, dresses himself, or signs contracts with big shots. We care about picking the banjo, setting up the banjo, and finding good music.
That is what BNL specializes in. It has tabulature and music for every kind of banjo player bluegrass to minstrel, beginner to expert. Its interviews focus on real banjo playing issues. I am happy to see articles in it by people whom I actually know and respect as banjoists, dealers, and historians of the music.
- Great magazine