Banjos and Pizza!

An article I started working on over a year ago finally came out in February's San Francisco Magazine. It's about Bay Area banjo bands that play in pizza parlors. There are six of them from San Jose to Sacramento. I've been to four different performances and they're all pretty great, though my favorite is the Oakland Banjo Band at Porky's Pizza Palace in San Leandro. If anyone wants to drive, I'll gladly go again. (The pizza's pretty good too.)

Here are the other banjo bands, found on this great banjo website:

# East Bay Banjo Club - Every Tuesday, 8 - 10 P.M.,
Round Table Pizza, 1938 Oak Park Boulevard, Pleasant Hill.
(510) 928-0126.

# Happy Time Banjos - Every Wednesday, 7 - 9 P.M.,
Straw Hat Pizza, 373 Main Street (xs Veterans Blvd.), Redwood City.

# Oakland Banjo Band - Every Thursday, 7:30 - 9:30 P.M.,
Porky's Pizza Palace, 1221 Manor Boulevard, San Leandro.

# Peninsula Banjo Band - Every Tuesday, 8 - 9 P.M.,
Straw Hat Pizza, 1535 Meridian Ave., San Jose.

# Sacramento Banjo Band - First & third Sundays of each month, 2 - 4 P.M.,
Straw Hat Pizza, 2929 Mather Field Road, Rancho Cordova

# San Francisco Banjo Band - First Saturday of each month, 8:30 - 11:30 P.M.,
Molloy's Tavern, 1655 Mission Road, Colma.