Bill Kreutzmann was only 18 years old when Jerry Garcia invited him to join some fellow Bay Area players in a jam session that would ... He was playing banjo with Mother McCree’s Uptown ...

The first instrument Jerry Garcia ever played in front of an audience was the banjo. Garcia started playing the instrument in 1950 and after playing for years he became a master picker.

At the same time Lesh was working as a volunteer recording engineer at a local radio station, KPFA, and invited a bluegrass banjo player named Jerry Garcia, whom he had once heard give a thrilling ...

Available for purchase and download, the set finds Garcia offering vocals, guitar, and banjo, while Grisman helms mandolin, mandola, vocals, guitar, banjo, and tenor lute. The latest duos ...