In addition to owning ZEPP Country Music, Inc., Donald Zepp ("ZEPP") still very much enjoys teaching guitar and banjo, especially clawhammer style.
ZEPP started playing guitar in 1958. Later, he decided that he was going to be the Kingston Trio, and formed a 4-person group (math never being his strong suit) with some high school buddies. He decided that the banjo playing of Dave GUARD (of the K3) sounded really cool, so he asked for--and received a 5-string banjo for Christmas in 1961.
Caught up in what Dave Van Ronk called the "Great Folk Scare," there came a night when he heard the Greenbrier boys playing at the 2nd Fret coffee house in Philadelphia, and he vowed then and there to learn to play bluegrass. He then started playing the local coffee house circuit, both with his own group, the Swannanoa Grovemont Roadrunners, and with various pickup bands. In 1964, he began teaching guitar and banjo a couple of nights a week at the Haddonfield (NJ) Conservatory of Music, and soon filled his schedule, teaching every night and all day Saturday.
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