Clawhammer Banjos
Week Ahead - Times-Standard
Week Ahead
Times-Standard
Humboldt Folklife Society presents Dobro player Ivan Rosenbert and clawhammer banjo player Chris Coole, 8 pm, Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St., $12 general, $10 members. Tickets are available at Wildberries Market Place, Wildwood Music and The Works.
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Music Review: Randy Thompson - Collected. - Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Music Review: Randy Thompson - Collected.
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
The song features a clawhammer banjo solo from Thompson, a two-step drum beat, and some nifty high sustain, heavily-amplified slide guitar solo from his son Colin. But the tour de force of the album is Thompson's reworking of "Ol' 97".
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Things to Do: Weekend events for families, gearheads, opera lovers and more - Sacramento Bee
Things to Do: Weekend events for families, gearheads, opera lovers and more
Sacramento Bee
Husband and wife, Pete and Anne Sibley tell the stories of America's common people with tight harmonies, guitar and clawhammer banjo. NPR faithful may recognize the Sibleys' names for their blue-ribbon finish in the Great American Duet Sing-Off on "A ...
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Things to Do for families, gearheads, opera lovers and more - Sacramento Bee (blog)
Things to Do for families, gearheads, opera lovers and more
Sacramento Bee (blog)
Husband and wife, Pete and Anne Sibley tell the stories of America's common people with tight harmonies, guitar and clawhammer banjo. NPR faithful may recognize the Sibleys' names for their blue-ribbon finish in the Great American Duet Sing-Off on "A ...
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The Lineup - Sacramento Bee
The Lineup
Sacramento Bee
What: Husband and wife, the Sibleys tell the stories of America's common people with tight harmonies, guitar and clawhammer banjo. NPR faithful may recognize the Sibleys' names for their blue-ribbon finish in the Great American Duet Sing-Off on "A ...
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Nightlife - Tallahassee Democrat (blog)
Nightlife
Tallahassee Democrat (blog)
Spoken word meets clawhammer banjo. 8 pm $10. Downtown Sopchoppy. 962-1010. Waterworks: The Institution — Tunes of the Alterna80s with DJ Evol Eno. 10 pm Free. 1133 Thomasville Road. 224-1887. Finnegan's Wake: The Crawlers. Acoustic stomp.
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Erica Brown, her bluegrass band will give two concerts - Lewiston Sun Journal
Lewiston Sun Journal
Erica Brown, her bluegrass band will give two concerts
Lewiston Sun Journal
He also plays bouzouki as well as tenor and clawhammer banjo. Taylor has performed with Brown for eight years, playing acoustic bass and adding vocals to the group. He started out as a guitar player with an interest in folk music, ...
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Roots and Blues books new acts - Salmon Arm Observer
Roots and Blues books new acts
Salmon Arm Observer
The six-piece band is best known for mixing clawhammer banjo riffs that tear the fabric of space and time with a ghostly mandolin, high voltage guitars, fierce drums, and hauntingly sweet harmonies to produce a sound that has been properly coined ...
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Limelight extra: A heads-up to upcoming events - Tallahassee.com
Limelight extra: A heads-up to upcoming events
Tallahassee.com
DYNAMIC DUO: Spoken word meets raw-'n'-ready clawhammer banjo when Donna Decker & Frank Lindamood perform at 8 pm Saturday at Posh Java, Organics & Gifts in Sopchoppy. Admission is $10. Call 962-1010. • SWEET EVENSONG: Organ recitalist Edie Johnson ...
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Limelight extra: A heads-up to upcoming events - Tallahassee Democrat (blog)
Limelight extra: A heads-up to upcoming events
Tallahassee Democrat (blog)
DYNAMIC DUO: Spoken word meets raw-'n'-ready clawhammer banjo when Donna Decker & Frank Lindamood perform at 8 pm Saturday at Posh Java, Organics & Gifts in Sopchoppy. Admission is $10. Call 962-1010. • SWEET EVENSONG: Organ recitalist Edie Johnson ...
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Mountain Fever Releases New CD By The Heather Berry and Tony Mabe Show - Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News
Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News
Mountain Fever Releases New CD By The Heather Berry and Tony Mabe Show
Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News
Tony Mabe, also an accomplished musician on several instruments including both claw-hammer and Scruggs style banjo, guitar, mandolin and auto-harp, is the perfect complement to Heather both on and off stage; the two have been married for nearly six ...
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Phil and Ann Case for the Town Hall Concert Series - Bluffton Icon
Phil and Ann Case for the Town Hall Concert Series
Bluffton Icon
Phil plays guitar, clawhammer banjo, mandolin and harmonica, and provides harmony vocals. Their sound draws upon the influences of the Carter Family and their contemporaries, early country blues, ragtime, and traditional ballad singing.
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Grammys 2012 – live coverage - The Guardian
The Guardian
Grammys 2012 – live coverage
The Guardian
... strumms her banjo, which looks like it weighs about as much as her, as if it was a guitar. Dressed like a Dust Bowl era Steinbeck character, winking like a Teen Vogue cover girl. Someone needs to give that girl a whiskey and a clawhammer lesson.
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Folk duo slated to perform at Old Gem - Richmond-News
Folk duo slated to perform at Old Gem
Richmond-News
They play original songs and traditional pieces from the British Isles and America on a wide array of instruments including: Celtic harp, mandocello, mandolin, guitars, clawhammer banjo and National steel ukulele, plus a bit of kazoo, harmonica, ...
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Baroque Dance Spotlighted at LA Chamber Orchestra, 2/16 - Broadway World
Baroque Dance Spotlighted at LA Chamber Orchestra, 2/16
Broadway World
He continues his interest in early American music performing traditional Appalachian fiddle tunes in a clawhammer style on the five-string banjo. Schneiderman studied with British guitar pedagogue and author Frederick Noad, and continued his studies at ...
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Festival brings old-time music to young, old - State Journal
Festival brings old-time music to young, old
State Journal
The lineup also includes classes in hammered and lap dulcimer, spoons, harps, harmonica, guitar, claw hammer banjo, mandolin, singing, fiddle, and Appalachian flatfoot dancing by champion flatfoot dancer Charlie Burton of Beaver, Pa.
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Roots, blues festival revs up - Kamloops This Week
Roots, blues festival revs up
Kamloops This Week
Shred Kelly (shredkelly.com), a gathering of friends from Fernie who are known for mixing clawhammer banjo riffs with a ghostly mandolin, high-voltage guitars, fierce drums and hauntingly sweet harmonies. For more information on the festival and ...
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Corner: 'Sing to Your Baby' helps parents say it with music - ScrippsNews
Corner: 'Sing to Your Baby' helps parents say it with music
ScrippsNews
Fink got her performing start in Canada, working as a folksinger/songwriter, learning the banjo and other instruments, and perfecting her yodeling. She's also an expert on the "clawhammer" banjo, which requires a different technique to play the strings ...
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The Legacy of Alan Lomax - The Atlantic
The Atlantic
The Legacy of Alan Lomax
The Atlantic
For instance, the old folk song "The Coo-coo Bird," performed by a Tennessee clawhammer banjo player named Clarence Ashley, was annotated thus: All of this was the work of a true apostle of what Greil Marcus likes to call Old Weird America named Harry ...
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Wythe, Grayson county youth to perform at Heartwood - TriCities.com
Wythe, Grayson county youth to perform at Heartwood
TriCities.com
Band members are: Levi Funk (fiddle); Daniel Boyer (clawhammer banjo); Zack Vaughan (guitar); Dylan Isom (guitar); and Danny Boyer (bass fiddle). Adam McPeak, 16, started his musical career by performing as a child with his father's band, ...
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