Greg Cahill formed the Special Consensus in the Chicago area and began touring nationally (and internationally) in 1975. Greg has appeared on all 21 of the Special Consensus recordings (two Grammy nominations and seven IBMA awards) and has released three solo recordings, four banjo instructional videos/DVDs, one banjo lessons book and two banjo tablature books. Greg has appeared on numerous recordings by other artists and on countless national television and radio commercials (jingles) and he conducts workshops and master classes at bluegrass camps and festivals worldwide. His teaching credits include Nashcamp, the Maryland Banjo Academy, Banjo Camp North, Midwest Banjo Camp, Suwannee Banjo Camp, Nashville Banjo Camp, Augusta Heritage Bluegrass Week, Steve Kaufman’s Acoustic Kamp, Rockygrass Academy, Ashokan Bluegrass Week, Montana Fiddle Camp, Walker Creek Music Camp, British Columbia Bluegrass Workshops, the Sore Fingers Summer School (UK), and Bluegrass Camp Germany. Greg has taught at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago for over 50 years and became the first adjunct professor teaching banjo for the Columbia College (Chicago) Strings Department in 2011. Greg was a regular contributor to Banjo Newsletter, received the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Distinguished Achievement Award in 2011 and was inducted into the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America (SPBGMA) Hall of Greats in 2019.