Clarke Buehling

Clarke Buehling has spent a lifetime in the dark corners of banjo history, presenting forgotten tunes, gourd‑banjo traditions, and minstrel and classic finger‑style pieces to modern audiences.

One of the foremost exponents of the nineteenth‑century banjo, the Fayetteville musician founded the American Banjo Fraternity Orchestra, has performed across the United States and Europe with The Skirtlifters, the Old 78s, and the Ozark Highballers, and has taught generations of banjo students at the Ozark Folk Center, Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music, and the folk school of KDHX in St. Louis. In 2023 he served as a Master Artist in the Arkansas Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program.

At the Front Porch venue, Buehling settles in for an afternoon of tunes, history, and the kind of stories that only forty years of banjo can teach you.