Jack Hatfield

Jack has been a columnist for Banjo Newsletter since 1976. He wrote the Scruggs Corner column for five years, analyzing the style of the father of bluegrass banjo. The sixty tablatures and analytical comments he wrote while authoring this column still today constitute the largest and most accurate collection of transcriptions of Earl's recordings a... vailable anywhere. Jack then wrote the Beginner's Corner column for seven years, and for twelve years authored a column called Concepts and Systems which attempted to de-mystify music theory, present alternative banjo techniques, discuss difficult and seldom-taught topics such as arranging and composition, and present other "big-picture" concepts relating to music applied to the five-string banjo. Besides performing and selling banjo products through Hatfield Music, Jack teaches and directs various banjo workshops and camps. He has taught banjo workshops all over the USA, in Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland and Australia. Jack was on the staff of the very first banjo camp, the Tennessee Banjo Academy in 1988, and was Bluegrass Director of Banjo Newsletter's Maryland Banjo Academy for all three years..Read More