Brandon Green has been a fixture in the bluegrass scene for the past few decades in West Virginia, Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina.
While still in college he was performing professionally, and took a faculty position in the ETSU Bluegrass, Old-Time & Roots Music Studies program not long after he finished. He remained there as a professor, teaching several instruments, lecturing, and coaching bands, and even headed up their gospel music concentration while that was being offered.
Green was profiled in Banjo NewsLetter back in 2018, and has been an endorser of Prucha Bluegrass Instruments with his own signature banjo for some time. A two-time national banjo champion, he was also winner of the first annual Southeast Banjo Championship on banjo, reso-guitar, and flatpick guitar, and a third place winner of the International Fingerstyle Guitar Championship in 2025. He has repeatedly won the West Virginia Vandalia Gathering banjo championship, and holds many other contest awards.
The boy can play.
Moved on now from ETSU, Brandon has transitioned into the leader of a family bluegrass band, alongside his five children, all of whom clearly received the talent gene from their dad. He’s still teaching, primarily on Patreon, and he has certainly trained his brood in the ways of the bluegrass.
They go by Strings of Green, based in Beckley, WV, with dad on banjo, guitar, and reso. At 18, Josiah handles guitar and some percussion, and writes music that they perform. Ezekiel, 12, is already a West Virginia Vandalia Gathering 2025 mandolin champion, has taken second place in the 2025 Galax Fiddler’s Convention Youth Mandolin Contest, and first at the Southeast Banjo Championships.
Moving on down, we have Ezra, 11, on bass who placed second at the Southeast Banjo Championships. Just coming on now are Malachi, aged 8, on guitar, and baby sister, Moriah, 6, on fiddle.
Given their ages, Strings of Green play mostly close to home at churches, weddings, and festivals.
The band has released their first single, a nice version of the popular bluegrass gospel song, Man in the Middle, which shows that these Greens should be making a name for themselves in short order.
Have a listen.
Man in the Middle from Strings of Green is available now from popular download and streaming services online, and to radio programmers via AirPlay Direct.
