Banjos, banjo parts and accessories, practice aides, and tablature.

Specializing in banjo instructional items!

We will match any authorized dealer's price on a new in-stock banjo!

Buy any two in-stock DVD's, get one free! (Ross Nickerson DVD's excluded)

Many items reduced for clearance as of December 2014.

New Jack Hatfield book Exercises for Three-Finger Banjo Now available! Go to:

Janet Davis

Kristin Scott-Benson

Jack Hatfield

Eighteenth Annual SPBGMA Banjo Workshop featuring

Kristin Scott-Benson

with JANET DAVIS and JACK HATFIELD

Special Guest: Larry Wallace, former Jimmy Martin banjoist!

Friday, February 6th. 2014 at Sheraton Music City, 777 McGavok Pike, Nashville.

Here are some unique items ANY banjo player can use! These products are exclusive Hatfield Music items, not available anywhere else.	Pick Pouch go to:
	Raejusters adjustable resonater screws. go to:
	Banjo Cleaning Kit go to:
	Banjo Setup Kit go to:
	Banjo Board Right hand practice simulator. Deluxe models with arm rest available! go to:
	Pick Sampler: Four different thumb picks, three different sets finger picks. go to:

SMBA 2014 was held May 1st - 4th at the Elliot Family Farms festival site just a few miles from Earl Scruggs' birthplace near Shelby, North Carolina. SMBA is proud to have merged with an importanty new banjo festival, Five-String Fest. This venue is a great outdoor facility with two stages, log cabin structures for many of the food and craft vendors, a jam building, huge vendor area, and many modern amenities. Five-String Fest boasted a huge array of banjo performers, and many taught classes for SMBA. The new Earl Scruggs Center museum, a beautiful building which was the former courthouse - is in nearby Shelby N.C.Festival performers included:

Terry Baucom and the Dukes of Drive, J.D. Crowe, The Boxcars (Ron Stewart), Charlie Cushman & Johnnie Warren, Chris Jones and the Night Drivers (Ned Luberecki), Big Daddy Love, Wayne Erbsen, The Grascals (Kristin Scott-Benson, Ryan Cavanaugh), Songs of the Fall (Cia Cherryholmes), Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, The Freight Hoppers (Frank Lee), Tony Furtado, Jack Hatfield and Friends, Dan Levensen, James McKinney and the Night Travelers, The Moore Brothers, Mountain Heart (Barry Abernathy), Ross Nickerson (SMBA only), Willow Osborne with Col. Isaac Moore, the Traveling McCoureys (Rob McCourey), The Moore Brothers, Reno and Harrell (Don Wayne Reno), Shannon Slaughter and County Claire, Phillip Steinmetz and his Sunny Tennesseans, the Tony Trischka Band!

Click here to go to Five-String Fest website

Click here to go to SMBA website

Five-String Fest presented by

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Nechville Musical Products

email Jack Hatfield for information and mail-in registration form

Reports on previous Smoky Mountain Banjo Academys

Video of Larry McNeely at SMBA

Dueling Banjo and Harp SMBA 2012

Greensleeves on Banjo and Harp SMBA 2012

We recently learned that Five-String Fest will not be held in 2015. Since the Gatlinburg facility we use is unavailable.

tentative plans are being made to relocate to a facility in Pigeon Forge for 2015. The date will be May 1-3.

To be placed on a notification list, email Jack Hatfield