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Cashiers Library welcomes banjo champ

art banjoTwo-time banjo champion Mary Z. Cox will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, at the Albert Carlton – Cashiers Community Library

 

Cox, a third generation Floridian from Brevard County, has played banjo since she was 12, and is a two time Florida banjo champion as well as winning last year’s old time banjo contest in Brevard. She has been a recording artist since 1999, and records CDs, plays concerts and festivals, gives workshops, and authors banjo & dulcimer instruction books. Her music has been played on National Public Radio’s “Thistle & Shamrock” and “All Songs Considered,” Pandora World Music Genome, and the BBC. 

Free.

828-743-0215.

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