Clawhammer Banjos
The unmuffled sound of Pomeranian Muffler Shop - The Auburn Plainsman
The unmuffled sound of Pomeranian Muffler Shop
The Auburn Plainsman
One of the differences between the genres revolves around style of banjo playing. Wall utilizes a claw hammer method of picking the banjo for old-time music, but also incorporates the more well known finger picking ways of bluegrass. “It's really cool ...
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Savannah Music Festival: Old Crow Medicine Show - Connect Savannah.com
Connect Savannah.com
Savannah Music Festival: Old Crow Medicine Show
Connect Savannah.com
Fuqua, who plays clawhammer banjo and acoustic guitar in Old Crow, elaborates: "The first band that I loved was Guns N Roses, and about the time we were in middle school, Ketch and I were listening to Nirvana, the Pixies, Dead Milkmen, all kinds of stuff.
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April Verch returns to her roots - Pembroke Daily Observer
April Verch returns to her roots
Pembroke Daily Observer
Verch and her bandmates – bassist and clawhammer banjo player Cody Walters and guitarist Hayes Griffin – recently returned from two weeks in Belgium and are currently touring the mid-western United States before Ontario stops in Lindsay, Innisfil ...
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Rita Hosking, Little Boat, album review - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk
Rita Hosking, Little Boat, album review
Telegraph.co.uk
Hosking has an powerful, expressive voice, and she is clearly enjoying performing on what is in many ways a very personal album — her husband Sean Feder plays Dobro and banjo, and her daughter Kora (who co-wrote a song) plays clawhammer banjo.
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Dan Walsh and his banjo in Louth - Louth Leader
Dan Walsh and his banjo in Louth
Louth Leader
Sponsored by Volksworld. Dan Walsh and his banjo in Louth. Published on 16/03/2013 11:58. Dan Walsh, described as the UK's finest clawhammer banjoist, is coming to the New Orleans Jazz Club in Queen Street, Louth, on Friday April 12. Tickets from the ...
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Carrillo Gantner, Rowan Callick, Abigail Washburn, Kai Welch - ABC Online
ABC Online
Carrillo Gantner, Rowan Callick, Abigail Washburn, Kai Welch
ABC Online
She is a Chinese-speaking, Illinois-born, Nashville-based, ex-lawyer, clawhammer banjo player. With Kai Welch on keyboards and guitar and Jamie playing percussion on the 774 ABC Melbourne paper recycling bin they bring us a couple of songs and chat ...
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The Hear & Now: Strange Matter hosts disco dance punkers Glitterlust - Richmond Times Dispatch (blog)
The Hear & Now: Strange Matter hosts disco dance punkers Glitterlust
Richmond Times Dispatch (blog)
The Beer Ticks: “Cabbage Head”: Featuring Evan Esch and James Rucker on fiddle, Bruce Blizard on clawhammer banjo, Megan Reynolds on guitar and Glenn Amey on bass, The Beer Ticks bring foot-stomping, old-time Americana to Crossroads Coffee ...
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Music school faculty plan concert - Daily Inter Lake
Music school faculty plan concert
Daily Inter Lake
North Valley Music School faculty includes Jesse Ahmann, cello; Laura Arnold, piano and voice; Tina Bertram, piano and claw hammer banjo; Diane Dickerson, piano and harp; Judy Doxtater, piano; Christian Johnson, guitar, mandolin and fiddle; Don Rees, ...
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Grayson kids focus of Crooked Road concert - TriCities.com
Grayson kids focus of Crooked Road concert
TriCities.com
The band's distinctive style merges the driving sounds of the Galax fiddle styles; the Round Peak, N.C., styles of clawhammer banjo; and the rhythmic sound of old time guitar. Fiddler Levi Funk's main goal is to keep some of the old Galax fiddle styles ...
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Stearns, Newton team for 'Tractor Beam' CD - Ithaca Journal
Stearns, Newton team for 'Tractor Beam' CD
Ithaca Journal
For the past four years, banjo maestro Richie Stearns and fiddler Rosie Newton have worked together in a variety of projects, including the Evil City String Band and Rockwood Ferry. Last year ... I think my clawhammer style was a relief after all that ...
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Abigail Washburn on 702 Drive - ABC Online (blog)
Abigail Washburn on 702 Drive
ABC Online (blog)
She dropped her plans to study law in China and took up the Banjo. It was not long before a keen eye spotted her and offered her a record deal. Abigail plays claw hammer style banjo which is the "first form of banjo playing brought over by the slaves ...
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John Reischman in concert - Islands' Weekly
John Reischman in concert
Islands' Weekly
Eli West is one half of the Northwest duo Cahalen Morrison and Eli West. Based loosely out of Seattle, West is an unconventional acoustic musician, pursuing an angular and syncopated pattern language on guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, and clawhammer banjo ...
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Get ready for fast fiddling: Verch celebrates Canadian, Appalachian sounds at ... - Republican Eagle
Get ready for fast fiddling: Verch celebrates Canadian, Appalachian sounds at ...
Republican Eagle
The April Verch Band includes bassist and clawhammer banjo player Cody Walters and guitarist Hayes Griffin. The show's grand finale will feature Verch fiddling and step dancing, often executing two entirely different intricate rhythmic patterns at once ...
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Sounds of the Albion with folk duo at club - Boston Standard
Boston Standard
Sounds of the Albion with folk duo at club
Boston Standard
He promises story songs with emotion and intensity and plays a variety of instruments including guitar, concertina and clawhammer banjo. Gavin will be joined by fiddle player Tom Kitching, this remarkable musician has performed over 700 times in five ...
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Red Tail Ring - Isthmus
Red Tail Ring
Isthmus
Red Tail Ring has made haunting, close harmonies a centerpiece of their performances, which they support with a bed of intricate instrumentation on fiddle, clawhammer banjo, mandolin, and guitar. Michael Beauchamp and Laurel Premo have traveled ...
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Chapel revels in the English folk revival with gigs - This is Bath
This is Bath
Chapel revels in the English folk revival with gigs
This is Bath
A multi instrumentalist, capable of playing acoustic guitar, anglo concertina, cittern, mandolin, clawhammer banjo and more, Gavin is also a compelling and impressive unaccompanied singer capable of holding an audience rapt through the twists and turns ...
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UA's Sonic Frontiers series presents avant-folk music - Tuscaloosa News
UA's Sonic Frontiers series presents avant-folk music
Tuscaloosa News
... manipulating programming language embedded in a computer interface that allows him to process the music on the banjo in real time, and provide sonic textures that add an often surreal and expansive ambience to his more traditional clawhammer style ...
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UA's Sonic Frontiers series presents avant-folk music - Tuscaloosa News (subscription)
UA's Sonic Frontiers series presents avant-folk music
Tuscaloosa News (subscription)
... manipulating programming language embedded in a computer interface that allows him to process the music on the banjo in real time, and provide sonic textures that add an often surreal and expansive ambience to his more traditional clawhammer style ...
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New Spring Valley Boys at The Crooked Road Youth Music Series Concert - Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News
Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News
New Spring Valley Boys at The Crooked Road Youth Music Series Concert
Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News
The band's distinctive style merges the driving sounds of the Galax, VA, fiddle styles; the Round Peak, NC, styles of clawhammer banjo; and the rhythmic sound of old time guitar. Fiddler Levi Funk's main goal is to keep some of the old Galax, VA ...
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Entertainment briefs - March 7 - Brainerd Daily Dispatch
Entertainment briefs - March 7
Brainerd Daily Dispatch
Her band includes bassist and clawhammer banjo player Cody Walters and guitarist Hayes Griffith, two guys as fluent in folk traditions of Canada and Appalachia as their award-winning leader. This is a trio assembled just over a year ago, reconfigured ...
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