I thought I'd revive this thread both for its content and to add some new, useful information:

My favorite clawhammer player is Dwight Diller, a West Virginia player who spent some time playing with Galax bands in a Galax style clawhammer but got homesick for the WV style he'd learned from oldtimers in his home area. He now gives many workshops, mostly near his home, but he's willing to travel: his workshops are usually four to seven days in length, very intensive, starting with lots of work on the right hand to get the rhythm right before going very deeply into tunes (I haven't been to one but I read a fairly detailed description of one accompanying his CD "Just Banjo" which is just that, a bunch of tunes beautifully played, with notes on tuning included for each song: it's kind of an instruction program without text. He also has a couple of instructionaly videos out (I have the intermediate level tape; the beginning video was supposedly ready to release early this winter).

Dwight has a website:

www.dwightdiller.com

which itself is very instructional, including tablature and real audio files for about thirty tunes, many of them on "Just Banjo," along with biographical information about him and links to a banjo maker who offers a Dwight Diller line of old timey banjos (wooden tone rings) and to Diller's wife's folk arts store.

--seed

By the way, many of his tabs are amazingly simple, yet are very beautiful when he plays them--what sets his playing apart is his wonderful right hand.