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Prairieland Dulcimer Strings
1 Mar 2012 - 7:00pm
Monthly on 1st Thursday
Recurring jam session
Categories: Jams & Festivals
Illinois Old-Time Fiddlers Association Monthly gathering
19 Feb 2012 - 2:00pm
Monthly on 3rd Sunday
Recurring jam session
Categories: Jams & Festivals
UIS Old Time Music Jam Session
8 Feb 2012 - 7:00pm
Monthly on 2nd Wednesday, 4th Wednesday
Recurring jam session
Categories: Jams & Festivals
Rock Springs Dulcimer Club
4 Feb 2012 - 10:00am
Weekly on every other Saturday
Recurring jam session
Categories: Jams & Festivals
Haymarket Whiskey Bar celebrates Grand Opening with live music Saturday [Music] - Louisville.com
Louisville.com
Haymarket Whiskey Bar celebrates Grand Opening with live music Saturday [Music]
Louisville.com
Band founder Mason Dixon uses a unique style of claw hammer, banjo, guitar, and harmonica. As Alabama said, “you gotta have a fiddle in the band” and JR is on target with the barnyard fiddle. Johnny Whippermule is known for playing his mandolin, ...
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Join the Pirate folk - Bayside Bulletin
Join the Pirate folk
Bayside Bulletin
Ryk Rostron, John Holmerg, Rose Broe and Markus Karlsen combine great four-part harmonies with guitar, accordion, mandolin, clawhammer banjo and double bass. Folk Redlands regular events are held on the first Sunday of the month.
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Folk Festivities - Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
Folk Festivities
Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
In the Plunk, Boom & Sing room, Fred Crouse will teach a Clawhammer banjo class for beginners at 1 pm An hour later in the same room, the Coyaba Dance Theatre will present its style of African dance. Those with an interest in singing may attend the ...
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Still making great music at 84! - Montgomery Newspapers
Still making great music at 84!
Montgomery Newspapers
Stanley got his initial instruction on the banjo from his mother, but learned primarily on his own. “My mother taught me the basics of the claw hammer [no pick] style,” Stanley said. “I worked real hard and eventually mastered that style and learned ...
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Interrogation: Kenny Powers of the Anchorage Folk Festival - Anchorage Press
Interrogation: Kenny Powers of the Anchorage Folk Festival
Anchorage Press
Workshops will teach clawhammer banjo, Scottish drumming, "bass whompin'" and more. Powers will lead a waltzing workshop on Saturday and a Cajun dance on Sunday (both start at 10 am). On the festival's main stage at UAA's Wendy Williamson auditorium, ...
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Banjoist, singer featured in Folk School concert - Clay County Progress
Banjoist, singer featured in Folk School concert
Clay County Progress
The style of banjo performed by Schulman and Brose is loosely referred to as “old-time,” though more specifically it is called “frailing” or “clawhammer” by some, while very traditional elder players from whom Brose and others collected had very ...
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Short Takes - TriCities.com
Short Takes
TriCities.com
Dana mans guitar and fiddle, Susan the clawhammer banjo. Together they harmonize on such songs as "Big Mystery" and "Dog's Life," simple explorations of life in search of harmony. » Where: First Presbyterian Church, 119 W. F St., Elizabethton, Tenn.
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Folk Show Calendar 1.22.12 - New Hampshire Public Radio
Folk Show Calendar 1.22.12
New Hampshire Public Radio
Their music features rhythmic clawhammer banjo and fiddle dance tunes, unusual fiddle tunes played in archaic tunings, and ballads. http://www.bradfordbogpeople.com From the White Mountains of New Hampshire comes a unique blend of harmonies and guitars ...
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An evening at the Haw River Ballroom - Yes! Weekly
Yes! Weekly
An evening at the Haw River Ballroom
Yes! Weekly
There'd be no difficulty in placing Fairfield in the mill's turn-of-the-century heyday, running a lathe by day and busking with a tidy battery of fiddle and banjo tunes at night. Ironically, the 1850s that Fairfield sang of in “Cottage By the Sea” ...
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Pickens County news briefs - Greenville News
Pickens County news briefs
Greenville News
Instruments include guitar, mandolin, fiddle, claw hammer banjo, bluegrass banjo, bass, mountain dulcimer and dobro. Lessons will be held Tuesdays at Easley First Baptist Church, 300 E. 1st Ave., and Mondays and Thursdays at the Pickens Senior Center, ...
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Art Notes: Six Great Decisions lectures at BRCC - BlueRidgeNow.com
Art Notes: Six Great Decisions lectures at BRCC
BlueRidgeNow.com
These first-timer classes are for the novice wanting to learn bluegrass banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle and mandolin. No experience necessary. Classes will be held in a vintage log cabin in the Haw Creek section of East Asheville, off Tunnel Road.
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Five Minutes With: Appalachian storyteller John Fowler - Hilton Head Island Packet
Five Minutes With: Appalachian storyteller John Fowler
Hilton Head Island Packet
I went on to play the banjo. In most cases when I play with groups I play the banjo. It's the old time clawhammer mountain style banjo, not the bluegrass style. Q. When you perform, do you feel like people are familiar with the instruments or stories?
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Making Noise: Straight from a dorm room comes sound of Wry Climate - Press Herald
Press Herald
Making Noise: Straight from a dorm room comes sound of Wry Climate
Press Herald
I have done some instrumental music ranging from traditional clawhammer banjo numbers to attempts at classical compositions for music theory classes, to college jazz combos, to Sonic Youth-inspired electric guitar improvisations.
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Celtic Connections 2012 to Celebrate The Art of Songwriting - World Music Central
Celtic Connections 2012 to Celebrate The Art of Songwriting
World Music Central
... English sibling singers Jim Moray and Jackie Oates, accordionist Andy Cutting, ex-Breabach fiddler/vocalist Patsy Reid, Southern US roots specialist Caroline Herring and Canadian clawhammer banjo ace Leonard Podolak, of The Duhks. ...
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Music: Folk bands The Houghton Weavers and The Old Tire Swingers in Calderdale - Huddersfield Examiner
Music: Folk bands The Houghton Weavers and The Old Tire Swingers in Calderdale
Huddersfield Examiner
When Paul Chesterton first heard bluegrass music back in 2003 he fell in love with the banjo. After spending the past couple of years focusing on the clawhammer style of banjo playing and writing songs, Paul decided to start an old time string band. ...
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Songwriters Festival draws top talent to Scenic Highway 30A - Tallahassee.com
Songwriters Festival draws top talent to Scenic Highway 30A
Tallahassee.com
Two Tallahassee area musicians are in the lineup this year, as well — clawhammer banjo man Frank Lindamood and leftneck musical agitator Grant Peeples. A list of performers and full schedule can be found at www.30Asongwritersfestival.com.
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