Greg Cahill
Best known for
Banjo
Greg Cahill is a Chicago-born banjoist who has led The Special Consensus since founding the band in 1975 — a seven-time IBMA award winner with the group, IBMA Distinguished Achievement Award honoree (2011), and creator of a national bluegrass-in-schools program estimated to have reached a million students.
- Chicago-born banjoist who has played bluegrass since the early 1970s.
- Co-founded The Special Consensus in Chicago in 1975 and has led the band ever since.
- Has appeared on all of Special Consensus's 21+ band recordings, with the group earning seven IBMA awards and two Grammy nominations.
- Created the Traditional American Music (TAM) Program in 1984, estimated to have reached approximately one million students.
- Received the IBMA Distinguished Achievement Award in 2011.
- Inducted into the SPBGMA Preservation Hall of Greats in 2020.
- Served as IBMA Board Chair/President 2006–2010 and was named a Kentucky Colonel in 2010.
- Banjo instructor at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago and former adjunct faculty at Columbia College Chicago.