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Regional Musician

Jens Hans Kruger, born and raised in Switzerland, is a lifelong musician. At the age of four, he started playing the harmonica. Then, he learned to play his mother’s accordion, accompanying his brother, Uwe, who played his father’s guitar. He loved listening to his father’s albums and dreamed of playing the banjo. At ten, Jens received a tenor banjo and began to play Dixieland jazz, hoping that one day “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” would somehow flow from the instrument. A year later, Jens and Uwe made their first public appearance, and two years later, Uwe bought Jens his first five-string banjo.

Published in 2011

Jens Kruger

Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame

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