Waynesboro Music is honored to host Kristin Scott Benson, a five-time International Bluegrass Music Association Banjo Player of the Year.
Her workshop will cover a specialty of Kristin’s: backup banjo.
Students will cover the core of rolling backup, both in open position and up-the-neck. The workshop will show players how to implement a concrete strategy and apply it to several tunes, so that they can use it in any situation. It will be a crash course, with lots of information and handouts.
In addition to her IBMA awards, Kristin Scott Benson is the 2018 recipient of the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass.
Since 2008, she has been a member of Grammy-nominated and two-time IBMA Entertainers of the Year, The Grascals. Kristin is one of the nation's top bluegrass banjo players, exhibiting impeccable taste, timing, and tone. With an attentive ear to back-up, she is known and respected as a true team player among her peers.
In 2022, Kristin became the newest endorser for Deering Banjos. Benson now plays a Custom Deering Golden Wreath model with a curly maple neck and speed finish. This banjo came about after trying a number of different Deering banjos and is an amalgamation of all the different models in Deering's Golden Series - the Golden Wreath, Golden Era, and Rustic Wreath.
