The New American Banjo Festival presented by Greenfield musician Michael Nix will be a live concert this year. Due to COVID-19, the festival was postponed twice in 2020 and was a virtual event in 2021. So this year Nix will host the festival at the.
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Celebrating the banjo: New American Banjo Festival is set to stream this weekend
Michael Nix plays the banjar in his office/studio at the Lava Center in Greenfield. Staff Photo/PAUL FRANZ
Michael Nix in his office/studio at the Lava Center in Greenfield with a banjar, his own creation. Staff Photo/PAUL FRANZ
Musima tenor banjo. WIkimedia Commons
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Michael Nix, of Greenfield, plays the banjar. Nix is the organizer of the New American Banjo Festival as well as one of the performers. Contributed photo
Published: 4/22/2021 3:51:36 PM
Four will hopefully be a charm for the inaugural New American Banjo Festival, the brainchild of musician Michael Nix, which has been postponed three times so far. He’d originally scheduled the first of what he hopes will become an annual and international celebration of all things banjo at Hawks and Reed Performing Arts Center in Greenfield last April.