Occupation(s) Musician Name Billy Faier | Website billyfaier.com | |
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Born December 21, 1930 (age 93) ( 1930-12-21 ) Role Musical Artist · billyfaier.com Albums The Art of the Five String Banjo, Banjo, Travelin' Man Similar People Oscar Brand, Jean Ritchie, Logan English, Ed McCurdy, Ramblin' Jack Elliott | ||
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Billy Faier (December 21, 1930 – January 29, 2016) was an American banjo player. He, along with Pete Seeger, was one of the early exponents of the banjo during the mid-20th-century American folk music revival.
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Born in Brooklyn, New York, he moved with his family to Woodstock, New York in 1945, and later lived in Marathon, Texas. Active in the Washington Square Park folk scene in Greenwich Village from the late 1940s, he recorded two albums for Riverside Records, The Art of the Five-String Banjo (1957) and Travelin' Man (1958). In 1973, he recorded Banjo for John Fahey's Takoma label.
He died in Alpine, Texas, in 2016, aged 85.
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Selected discography
In 2009, Faier decided to make much of his out of print and unreleased material available on his website.
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