Dr. Banjo profiled in Denver Post

 posted by John on 11.16.05 @ 6:15 am
 

The Denver Post has an interesting feature on Pete Wernick, by staff writer Ed Will, which includes both background and lengthy interviews with our own Dr. Banjo. The article is not so much about Pete’s music, but on his decision to leave the life of the big city, and the academic environment in which he was raised, for a more bucolic existence in CO and a life teaching and performing as a professional banjoist.

Read the entire article online.

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