Alex Truax
In another Sunday extra, a Deering banjo was presented to 15-year-old Alex Truax, of Portland, OR, winner of the Deering Banjo Pickin' Contest. Truax treated the Main Stage crowd to an example of not only his picking, but his singing as well.

Later, his father revealed that at the age of "nearly" nine, Alex was presented with a discard banjo from a friend. Alex picked up the banjo and started to play -- the beginning of what looks like a promising career.
-- text adapted from Jim Mitchell's article in the Nugget Newspaper, Sept 15, 2004.

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