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Banjo Maker Arthur Hatfield

Rachel Hopkin and Arthur Hatfield
Rachel Hopkin and Arthur Hatfield

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wkyu/local-wkyu-989315.mp3

Arthur Hartfield is a Bluegrass banjo player and maker from Rocky Hill, KY. Hatfield started off in a traveling Bluegrass band, but decided he preferred to stay home and became a cabinet maker while playing in local bands. When he retired from cabinet making he decided to start professionally making banjos. This is the latest in an ongoing series of features produced for WKU Public Radio by WKU Folk Studies graduate student Rachel Hopkin.

Rachel Hopkin is a BBC-trained radio producer and has worked for broadcast networks around the world. She has a longstanding interest in American traditional culture and, as a result, undertook an MA in Folk Studies at WKU between 2010 and 2012.