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• Daily Frail with Father Keith

  
  Tangier Sound — Authority: 144
  Father Kieth in the UK writes: Hello Patrick. I don’t know if this will be good enough but I put together a daily frail based on a common Bluegrass G lick. I know it’s not quite the same as you would play it 3 finger style but it sounds similar to my untrained ear. I don’t have any tab writing software so I ...
  4 hours ago

• Gibson bluegrass not affected by Fish & Wildlife raids

  
  The Bluegrass Blog — Authority: 526
  Last week, much of the music world was abuzz about the news that Gibson Guitar’s solid body electric guitar plant, and their corporate headquarters in Nashville, were visited by agents from the US Fish & Wildlife Service last Tuesday (11/17). A search warrant was served and agents spent several hours on site, ...
  8 hours ago

• Others like St. James Infirmary?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 648
  My band does a great cover of St. James Infirmary Blues. What else should we do thats in the same vein? Heres a bozillion .mp3s of St. James so you can get a feel for it. It looks like its been categorized under pre-war blues. It sounds great - we do it as a three-piece... guitar, banjo, fiddle with three-part ...
  9 hours ago

• Weekly Workshop 11/23/09

  
  Tangier Sound — Authority: 144
  Freight Train, rock the C chord, banjo straps, Patrick’s next books and other stuff from Crisfield.
  14 hours ago

• A Thanksgiving melody…

  
  Tangier Sound — Authority: 144
  Steve in Ohio writes: Hiya Patrick, I’ve revived my love for the sounds of accordion and banjo in harmony in a recording, today, with a little 6-sting thrown in for bass: MP3: http://fabricari.com/music/thanksgiving.mp3 I tried to record a video a while back (last Spring?) with banjo and accordion in ...
  22 hours ago

• Clawhammer Medley

  
  Tangier Sound — Authority: 144
  Wes in the UK writes: Hi again Patrick! I want to say a big thanks for teaching me this last year, I cannot stress enough how much help your online workshops and blogs etc have been. It’s been a huge amount of fun and I’ve even managed to figure out the tune which originally made me want to play 5 string ...
  22 hours ago

• Allen Shelton, 1936-2009

  
  The Bluegrass Ireland Blog — Authority: 132
  Allen Shelton, 1969 (photo: Fred Robbins ) Thanks to Richard F Thompson of the BBMA for forwarding the sad news of the death after long illness of Allen Shelton , one of the most influential and innovative among bluegrass banjo-players of the 1950s and 1960s. Beginning full-time music at the age of 16 with ...
  1 day ago

• Allen Shelton, 1936-2009

  
  The Bluegrass Blog — Authority: 526
  We are  deeply saddened to note that Allen Shelton passed away, November 21. After having been released from the hospital a week ago (11/13), he was readmitted on Thursday, slipped into unconsciousness on Friday and died on Saturday afternoon. Allen had been initially hospitalized in October, where he was diagnosed ...
  1 day ago

• Tony Trischka School of Banjo

  
  The Bluegrass Ireland Blog — Authority: 132
  The Tony Trischka School of Banjo makes it possible for pickers anywhere in the world to register ($60 for three months) for online lessons at beginning, intermediate, or advanced level from one of the greatest living banjoists. The website already has over 160 video lessons, and more are being added - clawhammer ...
  1 day ago

• Retro Review: Conker’s Bad Fur Day (Nintendo 64)

  
  Gameolosophy — Authority: 423
  At the time, Rareware was known for making a lot of cutsey platformers like Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong 64.  So you can imagine they were working on another one.  Just as Banjo was taken out of Diddy Kong Racing and given his own game, the same deal happend with Conker.  This cute, cuddly squirrel was given a ...
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• Victorian Values

  
  Radio Clash Podcast — Authority: 419
  Last night I was at the Victorian Values event at the British Library run by the Ministry of Burlesque with Victorian Values and others which I think Gryphons-Hole would have not only liked but fit right in if he wasn’t state-side; I alas didn’t go in my top hat but if I had I would’ve felt underdressed ...
  1 day ago

• Deering banjos: special prices from Dangem

  
  The Bluegrass Ireland Blog — Authority: 132
  The Dangem Bluegrass Banjo company of Craigavon, Co. Armagh, announces that great Christmas savings are possible from now till 14 December 2009 for buyers of Deering banjos. You can save £300 on each of these Deering models: Sierra (photo left) was £1,650.00; Deering roll-back price £1,350.00 Deluxe ...
  2 days ago

• SUNSET: LEROY “SAM” PARKINS

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 134
  Leroy “Sam” Parkins, clarinetist, raconteur, and enthusiastic friend of this blog, died in Israel on November 18, 2009: he was 83.  Sam loved beautiful photographs, so I offer this sunset, taken from a window on the Upper West Side, in his memory. I am an unabashed jazz matchmaker: I tried to get Whitney ...
  3 days ago

• Let It Snow!

  
  Tangier Sound — Authority: 144
  Father Kieth in the UK writes: Hello Dear Old Dad. We don’t get much snow in England these days thanks to global warming. A couple of years ago Linda had one of those ’special’ birthdays so I arranged a surprise trip to Finnish Lapland to visit Santa. We arrived just as they experienced a mini-heatwave. There ...
  3 days ago

• Another Iowa Daily Frail

  
  Tangier Sound — Authority: 144
  Mike in Maquoketa on hammer-on’s  & and pull-off’s. MP3: http://tangiersound.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/hammeronpulloffhammeron.mp3 Braille-Friendly Tab: Hammer-On Pull-Off Hammer-OnNote: Hold Hammered on notes through strum.1) 1-0-E 1-h3-E G-ST 3-h3-E 3-3p0-E G-ST2) 4-0-E 4-h3-E G-ST 3-0-Q ...
  3 days ago

• The Elliott Elite Capo

  
  The Bluegrass Blog — Authority: 526
  At IBMA this year I had the pleasure of spending some time visiting with Phil Elliott of Elliott Capos . As bluegrass conversations go, we talked about music, family, and church. One particular aspect of a conversation with Phil is that you’re bound to talk shop about capos. Phil spends his days in a machine shop ...
  3 days ago

• Pik-Ware, Somerset and other stuff from Dear Old Dad

  
  Tangier Sound — Authority: 144
  Patrick is hard at work on his next series of books for banjo and guitar. He has included lots of songs and tablature of the type that we wrote out in our old music books many years ago. It worked for us and we are confident that you will find it useful. Each volume will include a companion audio CD to play along ...
  3 days ago

• Lost Monster Hop

  
  The J-Walk Blog — Authority: 156
  Banjo by Michael Berard, fiddle by Heather Schnarr. Directed by Jody Kramer and produced by the National Film Board of Canada: Lost Monster Hop . At a signpost by the railway tracks, a tidy little banjo-picking monster is trying to find her way. She sets out on a journey and finds what she is looking ...
  4 days ago

• North Carolina Banjo Clinic

  
  The Bluegrass Blog — Authority: 526
  Cindy Baucom sent along a number of photos from this past weekend’s debut North Carolina Banjo Clinic in Burnsville, NC. She was in attendance with her husband, Terry Baucom, and sent us this report. “Terry was an instructor, along with Tom Adams, Mike Scott, Jim Rollins and Bill Emerson. Josh Goforth worked ...
  4 days ago

• Pig Plays Banjo

  
  The J-Walk Blog — Authority: 156
  Illustration by Jake Blanchard . Yes, thats a bacon sandwich in that thought balloon. Comments | Posted in Banjo
  4 days ago

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