I was just informed by Gerald Jones that Mel Bay will no longer be hosting the series of Banjosessions articles. For a number of years this has been a wonderful venue for anyone willing to teach to post lessons in a variety of instruments. Mirek and I have been able to use the Banjosessions for our endeavors (along with a number of very well known five string players), but now we will have to find a new venue. Apparently all of the Mel Bay Sessions (guitar, mandolin, uke, banjo, fiddle, resonator, did I miss one?) are gone except for the archives.
I've been writing about my experiences in workshops with some of the greatest Irish tenor banjo players in the world for the past seven years and am much the better for it and hope that the videos and lessons have helped others. I don't intend to stop but would like some input as to where I can go. I have my own web site, but frankly have not been able to access it since Google changed a lot of things and have had no success in changing that.
My choices are to have an occasional lesson posted here in tabs and lessons, a new web site or over at the Irish Tenor banjo site. If I get a new web site, I will welcome others to post too on any aspect of tenor banjo playing (but an obvious bias on my part) and I am leaning in that direction. Any ideas?
Mike Keyes