Bela Fleck, Earl Scruggs, Barney MacKenna of The Dubliners and Pete Seeger are all noted exponents of what musical instrument?
Earl Scruggs Jamboree", (album, inducted 2012); "Foggy Mountain Banjo", (album, inducted 2013); and Bill Monroe's "Blue Moon of Kentucky"(single, inducted 1998) on which Scruggs performed. The award was established by The Recording Academy in 1973 to honor works at least 25 years old that have lasting qualitative or historical significance. In the late 1950s Scruggs met with Bill Nelson, one of the owners of the Vega Musical Instrument Company in Boston, to sign a contract to design and endorse a new banjo to be called "The Earl Scruggs Model". The company had made banjos since before 1912 and already had a Pete
Scruggs, Vandervoort and Barney its location in downtown St. Louis. They were known for holding several varieties of fashion shows, in the 1950s it opened a branch store in Clayton, Missouri, and Crestwood Plaza, in Crestwood, Missouri. The company was accused of having unfair hiring practices, and was picketed by the NAACP. Scruggs, Vandervoort & Barney suffered financial pressures and shuttered operations in 1969. Scruggs, Vandervoort and Barney Scruggs, Vandervoort & Barney was a department store founded in St. Louis, Missouri in 1850 by M.V.L McClelland and Richard Scruggs. The Company started out as a Dry goods store, the first store was opened on