wp-plugin-hostgator domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home3/miwokwom/allenhendricks.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114In 1968-while in the Air Force and stationed at Mather Air Force Base in Rancho Cordova, CA – I was asked by Tiny Moore to teach 5-string banjo at his Tiny Moore Music. Tiny Moore played with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys from the time he was 16 years old. Tiny and Billy Jack Wills opened and operated Wills Point in Sacramento for several years. Tiny and Billy Jack married the McKinley Sisters who sang for Bob Wills. Over the years Tiny opened his music store and had two different weekly TV shows local to the Sacramento area. Later, Tiny started playing with Merle Haggard and was his bandleader for many years. Through Tiny, I met and played with many well known performers. I taught at Tiny’s store into 1977 when my brother Monte and I started making banjos in El Dorado County in California under the name Hendricks Banjos<\/u><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, in the early part of the 1970’s, I taught at a music store in Marysville. Maybe for 1 and 1\/2 years. That was because I was traveling 3 and 4 day weekend trips playing banjo and guitar as part of The Louise Dunn Show. We always returned to Marysville late Sunday night. So I taught at the local store on Mondays before returning to Sacramento. Then Rob Bonner and I started The South Loomis Quickstep<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When Monte and I started Hendricks Banjos I stopped teaching to concentrate my time at the banjo shop. As always, my performing schedule came first. The South Loomis Quickstep was traveling a lot! A couple of people really kept after me to teach and finally talked me into it. One person in particular, Mike Hawkey, drove from just south of Redding to Placerville for instruction. More and more people wanted instruction from me and it was starting to disrupt my time at the banjo shop. So I decided it was time to find a place to consolidate my teaching. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I rented space at The Fifth String in Sacramento, first one and then two days a week. When The Fifth String moved locations in 1997, I moved to a new store called The Acoustic Shop and stayed there until they closed their doors two years later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since then, I rent space in Sacramento and operate my own teaching studio. I teach there on Monday and Wednesday. I teach at home on Tuesday. I am at the banjo shop on Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have done workshops at many festivals in many states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hosted<\/strong> – Folk Music Showcase and guest hosted on KEZS Weekly Bluegrass Hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Studio musician on many albums and numerous radio and T.V. advertising jingles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Soundtracks<\/strong> \u2013 Sacramento Illustrated; Budweiser; Safeway; Ricco\u2019s Pizza; Weeknight Theme; California State Fair; California\u2019s Gold along with various other jingles and commercials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Featured instrumentalist on television radio programs \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n TV<\/strong>: California – 7:30 Special; Good Morning Sacramento; Seattle, Washington – KOMO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Radio<\/strong>: California – KRAK; KNEW; KZAP; KGNR; KEZS; KYLO; KUOP; Reno, Nevada – KUNR & Portland, Oregon \u2013 KBOO.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAS WELL AS<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n