Billy Faier

Who is Billy Faier?

Billy Faier is an American banjo player. He, along with Pete Seeger, was one of the early exponents of the banjo during the mid-20th-century American folk music revival.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, he moved with his family to Woodstock, New York in 1945, and now resides in Marathon, Texas. Active in the Washington Square Park folk scene in Greenwich Village from the late 1940s, he recorded two albums for Riverside Records, The Art of the Five-String Banjo and Travelin' Man. In 1973, he recorded Banjo for John Fahey's Takoma label.