Dear Friends

Since 1998, the Banjo Gathering (formerly the Banjo Collectors Gathering) has been the platform for sharing new scholarship and findings on the banjo as a historical, cultural, and design object. Every year, collectors, researchers, instrument builders, and musicians from throughout the United States and abroad come together for the Banjo Gathering’s signature activities: formal presentations, field trips to culturally significant locations, and a marketplace to inspect, buy, sell, and trade instruments and ephemera from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The 20th Banjo Gathering will take place in Alexandria, Virginia from Thursday, November 2 through Sunday, November 5, 2017, and will feature three extraordinary field trips:

  • Thursday, November 2, 2017 (10AM-2PM): Library of Congress, American Folklife Center — pre-Gathering visit and tour of banjo holdings
  • Friday, November 3, 2017 (8AM-11AM): Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture — exclusive curator-guided tour
  • Friday, November 3, 2017 (12:30-2:30PM) Smithsonian National Museum of American History — tour of extensive banjo collection

 

REGISTRATION:

This year’s registration is a two-step process. First, please fill out this Google Survey (https://goo.gl/forms/tQU90J4vx0F0Pkz22) to express your intention to attend the Gathering and each of the field trip tours. Second, submit your registration fee of $280 (with a special half-price offer of $140 for students and first-time attendees) with a check made payable to:

Peter Szego
2 Beekman Lane
Hillsborough,
NJ 08844 

Please note that because of the high demand and limited space, advanced confirmation is required for each field trip and can only be secured on a first-come, first-serve basis when you submit your registration fee to Peter Szego.

 

ACCOMMODATIONS:

The 20th Banjo Gathering will be held at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center in Alexandria, Virginia, with a guest room rate is $139 per night for single or double occupancy. On-site parking is $15 per day, but off-site parking is available. We have reserved a block of guestrooms from Wednesday, November 1, through Sunday, November 5. You can make reservations online with the SRP Code “BANJO” and the following pass-key link:

https://aws.passkey.com/event/49238024/owner/10925932/landing?gtid=...   

The number of reserved guest rooms is limited and availability is on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please be aware that we were not able to reserve enough guest rooms at the host hotel last year and quite a few Banjo Gathering participants had to stay at nearby hotels. We therefore urge you to make guest room reservations ASAP.

 

PRESENTATION HIGHLIGHTS:

Some of the presentation topics thus far confirmed will include: close encounters with an early gourd banjo; the banjo during the 1849 gold rush; collecting adventures in northeast Ohio; early banjo recordings on original machines; the “Golden Age” of the Tenor banjo; English Weaver banjos; a fresh look at Boston banjo makers; and banjo rim construction.

For more information, please visit our website www.banjogathering.com or contact any of us directly if you have questions. 

 

Banjovially,

Jim Bollman jim@fineoldbanjos.com

Peter Szego pszego@comcast.net

Hank Schwartz hank@hschwartz.com

Greg Adams gregcadams@gmail.com

 

 

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WOW. The field trips are going to be simply amazing!

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