Trina Emig
Trina Emig is a bluegrass banjo player, mandolinist, teacher, author, and recording engineer from Cincinnati, Ohio. She began studying Scruggs-style banjo with Vernon McIntyre in 1988. By 1990 she was teaching banjo and touring nationally with his band, Vernon McIntyre's Appalachian Grass. She has since played with Kentucky 31, alongside Terry Boswell, as well as Katie Laur's All-Girl Bluegrass Band, Ma Crow and the Lady Slippers, Missy Werner and the Cincinnati Radio Band, among others. She also played drums and recorded with the country-swing band Dr. Twang and the Stainless Steel. She took up mandolin in 2006. She wrote the banjo instruction book Becoming Banjo Worthy and owns and runs Boopie Recording Studios.
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- "It Just Came Natural To Me" (No. 11)