The BRC founder`s son, also a musician, set up the Banjo Rehabilitation Center website for the pater familias in April of 2011, as his dad`s computer skills were not advanced enough to engineer such a cyber task. Our son`s two children are pictured below in the foyer of his Texas homestead.
Over the ensuing years, the BRC founder has slowly but steadfastly expanded his techno-skills to maintain and upgrade the website. Letters from across the English speaking world are chronicled in the BRC Mailbox under the Vega Martin Banjo Info header. The Hall of Fame is a pantheon of special BRC friends. This month, our website search engine hits incredibly surpassed the milestone of one million.
At family gatherings, the grandchildren always have a songfest with the BRC founder who accompanies them on guitar. A son-in-law, an architect, recently drafted a quick sketch of the kids` song leader and labeled it “G`pa Doc.”
After singing on stage with his grandfather at the local brewpub not too long ago, a Chicago grandchild drew a crayon likeness of his BRC banjo guy. What a lucky grandpa.
This last week at the art gallery where his “St. Paddy`s Partita” 5-stringer and award ribbon are on display, the BRC founder conducted an interactive dialogue on banjo building with a young group of “Grade A Plus” students from an after school academic support and enrichment program.
He has many blessings- more than a million of them.
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