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ROCK SPRINGS — When Brent Weber walked through the door with his long-neck Vega banjo, his passion for the stringed instrument was obvious. Decked out in a T-shirt that reads “Love one woman, many ...

MARIN COUNTY — The Banjo Man is missing his banjo. Stacy Samuels, the beanie-wearing Banjo Man who fires up crowds at San Francisco 49ers and Oakland A’s home games by picking a lively “Foggy Mountain ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS >> Cecil Myrie, the beloved busker known as Saratoga’s Banjo Man, now has a special memorial on the edge of the big pond in Congress Park – a weeping willow tree, planted Oct. 23 by ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS >> Saratoga’s beloved “Banjo Man” has said goodbye. According to his children and friends, Cecil Myrie, 86, passed away Tuesday morning after a battle with multiple myeloma cancer.

Neal James has passed away at the age of 55. The outdoorsman, who was known as The Banjo Man on Animal Planet’s Call of the Wildman, had been battling cardiac issues according to the coroner’s office.

The national anthem at Saturday's 49ers-Packers playoff game will be followed by the faint tinkling of "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" on banjo, and a Candlestick Park tradition will notch its 30th year.

MARIN COUNTY — The Banjo Man is missing his banjo. Stacy Samuels, the beanie-wearing Banjo Man who fires up crowds at San Francisco 49ers and Oakland A’s home games by picking a lively “Foggy Mountain ...

Just in case you are not familiar with the many facets of the banjo and its exponent Bela Fleck, his 14 Grammys and 30 Grammy nominations are enough to draw your attention to both. Fleck is a music ...