To continue on this thread, if the BBC really wanted to put forward a British candidate at the Winfield, Kansas banjo festival/competition, no finer person would have been Pete Stanley,a performer whose many years of devotion, experience, talent and love of American folk banjo styles should have been evident to any panel of judges.He could have walked it.
Instead, they chose a total clown with no knowledge of the music whatsoever, he just wanted further exposure for himself on television, to further his shallow aims in what passes for humour.
This is what you money goes on when you pay your TV licence to the BBC!!! Anyone else agree?
Oh, I do get to be a grumpy old man sometimes, sorry, folks,
Roger Knowles