The Kingston Trio, often backed by the raucous banjo, launched the folk craze with a frenzy.Īt one time they had four albums in the top ten Billboard listings, a feat no one before, or since, has ever equalled. In those years there was not a college student who didn't dream of owning a Vega Pete Seeger, carrying the name of the man who popularized the long-necked five string banjo in the 1950s, especially with his introduction to Darling Corey, when his group the Weavers played Carnegie Hall in 1955.īut it was with the Kingston Trio that this banjo really took off, when Dave Guard bought one of the very first Vega Pete Seegers when the company started the production run in 1958. A fabulous example of one of the finest banjos ever made, the Vega 5-string Pete Seeger long-necked folk banjo, produced as a result of the folk craze of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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