KEN SALVO

        Ken has been playing banjo for some 40 years. His banjo skills won him first place at the Illinois State Fair's banjo competitions for three consecutive years. His professional career began in 1964 in Chicago at the age of 16. He regularly performed at the Red Garter Club in the famous Rush Street area. Ken has performed with the Dukes of Dixieland, the Village Stompers, Bob Scobey's Frisco Band, Woody Allen's jazz band and with many other notable Chicago and New York-based jazz bands.
        Ken lives in New Jersey and formed the Banjo Ragtimers. He recently performed at Carnegie Hall as one of the select group of banjoists in the recreation of a James Reese Europe 1912 concert and he has performed in Nagasaki, Japan.

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