“When you get to the highest levels of the entertainment business,” says banjo expert Pete Wernick, “you never know what to expect.” The Coloradan is experiencing this truism firsthand. Since making ...

In 1963, when the folk-music trend made a young Greg Deering want to learn to play the banjo, his mother said no. But he was obsessed, desperate to create the sounds he had heard on a Kingston Trio ...