Winston Marshall is probably the most widely known banjo player in today's music scene. He is part of the English folk rock group "Mumford & Sons".
Earl Scruggs was an American musician noted for perfecting and popularizing a three-finger banjo picking style that is a defining characterisitic of bluegrass music.
Bill Keith made a significant contribution to the stylistic development of the instrument. In the 1960's he introduced a variation on the popular "Scruggs style" of banjo playing, which would soon become known as melodic style, or "Keith Style".
Don Reno was an American bluegrass and country musician best known as a banjo player in partnership with Red Smiley, and later with guitarist Bill Harrell
Peter Seeger is an American folk singer. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940's, he also had a string of hit records during the early 1950's. Peter popularized a folk style by combining "claw-hammer" with "up-picking", usually without the use of fingerpicks.
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