"I don't know where Peggy Seeger learned to play the banjo. "
She never gives a single mentor, but as a youngster the house was constantly full of visiting traditional musicians
If you listen to her playing you will find a host of styles lifted from various sources.
The life in help, Libby Cotton save her lessons on the guitar
There is a banjo instructor by her published in the 1960s
If anybody is interested, we have a long lecture on accompaniment she gave in London in 1969
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"was not as highly valued amongst traditional players of the banjo"
WHAT!!!!!
It was basically dance music - time was its essential feature
Jim Carroll