Michael Nix
Michael Nix performs on classical guitar, Banjar, banjo, and mandolin, throughout the United States and Asia; has recorded for the PBS series “American Experience”, several independent documentaries, numerous CD projects; and his compositions are performed internationally. His music has been heard “Weekend Edition”, and other NPR programs. A banjo innovator, Michael Nix designed the Banjar; a modern seven nylon string banjo combining elements of the five-string banjo and classical guitar; bringing the classic finger-style banjo of the late 1800's into the twenty first century. His instrumentals, songs, and compositions draw from classic banjo and guitar, early banjo, folk, jazz and world music traditions. The New Classic Banjo Project was instituted by Nix to develop and record a modern classical banjo repertoire. Nix’s compositions for 7-string Banjar, the traditional nylon strung five-string classical banjo, the six-string guitar banjo and other banjo hybrids form the core of the New Classic Banjo Project. Nix will record, publish, and perform the new repertoire in festivals, conferences, live and live-streamed concerts. In 2017 Nix performed his compositions for New Classic Banjo at the Smithsionian Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
