It all started with the Kingston Trio. One day in 1963, a San Diego kid and his friends got their hands on an album by the popular folk group. Greg Deering, 12 at the time, recalls studying the ...

In 1963, when the folk-music trend made a young Greg Deering want to learn to play the banjo, his mother said no. But he was obsessed, desperate to create the sounds he had heard on a Kingston Trio ...

It might be misleading to say the foundation of Deering Banjo Co. was built on a bikini and a church youth group, but not by much. Both played a key role in the birth of this plucky Spring Valley ...