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Who We Are

We are musicians, educators, authors, composers, and storytellers.  We first collaborated in the late ‘90s, when Súle helped choreograph the Teachers’ Talent Show, and Meg helped transcribe minstrel song melodies.

What Makes Us Different

Funky Banjo offers a new method to make learning to play the banjo both fun and satisfying. Our “Hear it, Play it, Read It”© method is based on how people actually learn a language. You’ve done it before—you’re reading this, now!–So, you can do it, again.

We offer a combination of online video demonstrations and tutorials, plus a written method book, that gets you playing fast!

The Team

Súle Greg Wilson, M.A.

Folklorist, educator, banjoist, and percussionist, Súle was Co-Director of the historic 2005 Black Banjo Gathering, and is a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning African American string band, the Carolina Chocolate Drops.

As an educator, Wilson has taught primary and middle school in the New York, Phoenix, and Tempe Public Schools, as well as at Arizona State University, and the Maricopa County Community Colleges.  

As a musician, Wilson has performed and/or recorded with Taj Mahal, Tony Trischka, Mike Seeger, Joe Thompson, Pura Fé, Babatunde Olatunji, Ruthie Foster, John Sebastian, and, of course, Dom Flemons and Rhiannon Giddens. It’s taken him from from Belfast to Bahia, Kumasi to Juneau, Honolulu to Hermosillo.

Author of The Drummer’s Path: Moving the Spirit with Ritual and Traditional Drumming, he has written for Sing Out!, Banjo Newsletter, the Village Voice, and Rhythm Music Monthly.  Born in Washington, D.C., with time in New York and Ohio, he now lives in Tempe, AZ, just a half mile from his collaborator, Meg Arredondo.

Meg Arredondo, M.A.

A decorated music educator with over thirty years’ experience in the Tempe, AZ public schools, Meg was born and raised in Arizona.  She earned degrees in Choral and General Music Education, and Second Language Acquisition from Arizona State University.

A lifetime lover of folk music, Meg composed arrangements of folk songs for her choirs, and general music and guitar students. She also served as Ad Hoc member of the Arizona Music Educators Association, focusing on innovation in music education. She is also a founding member and musical arranger for National Recovery Act, a trio dedicated to keeping 1930s and ‘40s music alive.

In 2011, Meg and Súle co-arranged a choral version of Kiya Kiya (Why Do You Run Away?) a Yoruba (Nigeria, West Africa) traditional folk song, for publication by Colla Voce Music.

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