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Edie Brickell and Thao Nguyen - New Yorker (blog)
New Yorker (blog)
Edie Brickell and Thao Nguyen
New Yorker (blog)
Clawhammer is older, a mountain style that's more spare, moodier, and a little more plaintive, and is typically played more slowly than Scruggs style. It's the style that Pete Seeger helped make popular on his long-neck banjo. Brickell is perhaps not ...
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Discover roots in Ballina - Mayo News
Discover roots in Ballina
Mayo News
... octave fiddle and lead vocals Rory Butler on guitar, and lead vocals; Chris Purcell on guitar, harmonica and lead vocals; Ailig Hunter on double bass; Pat McGarvey on five-string banjo, guitar and vocals; and Jed Milroy on clarinet, guitar ...
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Bluegrass master Ralph Stanley delivers heart and soul at Old Town - Chicago Tribune
Bluegrass master Ralph Stanley delivers heart and soul at Old Town
Chicago Tribune
Stanley played a vigorous clawhammer banjo on "Rocky Island," but mostly stuck to vocals. Even when he didn't sing at all, and instead let his ace backing band take the spotlight, he remained the easy-going patriarch standing centerstage. The house ...
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Concert listings for Feb. 3 - Toronto Star
Concert listings for Feb. 3
Toronto Star
Annual celebration of the humble banjo is into its 13th year, featuring a variety of styles played by four masters of the instrument: Ireland native Brian Taheny's tenor, clawhammer players Arnie Naiman and Chris Coole, and bluegrass specialist Chris ...
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Kathy Mattea - "Hello...My Name is Coal" - Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News
Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News
Kathy Mattea - "Hello...My Name is Coal"
Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News
She's always had a profound respect for traditional folk music—her ancestors played it, and in college she even took clawhammer banjo lessons and formed a bluegrass band—but she only recently came to accept that the music is in her blood. “I had to ...
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Arts center overflowing with success - The Harlan Daily Enterprise
Arts center overflowing with success
The Harlan Daily Enterprise
Before the evening was over, Sam had demonstrated an intimate, easy and comfortable proficiency with the claw-hammer banjo, mountain fiddle, flat-top guitar and an amazing autoharp that he, himself, had built from scratch. There was not a minute during ...
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Blue Warblers sing for the love of music - Prince George Free Press
Blue Warblers sing for the love of music
Prince George Free Press
Edelson has sung backing vocals for Beggs on several tours and recordings and recently she discovered the clawhammer banjo. She has been nominated for three Western Canadian Music Awards and a Canadian Folk Music Award for her solo work and ...
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Paint Lick arts center provides good music - Richmond Register
Paint Lick arts center provides good music
Richmond Register
Before the evening was over, Sam had demonstrated an intimate, easy and comfortable proficiency with the claw-hammer banjo, mountain fiddle, flat-top guitar and an amazing auto-harp that he, himself, had built from scratch. There was not a minute ...
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Hidden treasures: Leroy Troy – The Old Grey Mare - The Guardian (blog)
The Guardian (blog)
Hidden treasures: Leroy Troy – The Old Grey Mare
The Guardian (blog)
For instance, he was apparently national old time banjo champion in 1996, and his unique style is a product of the clawhammer school of banjo playing – where you strike the strings downwards as opposed to the more common style patented by Earl Scruggs ...
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Concert preview: James Hill pushes into new territory - Edmonton Journal
Concert preview: James Hill pushes into new territory
Edmonton Journal
It's the same with the clawhammer banjo technique, which I've adapted into my style. You can become myopic, just focused on one thing, but in the past few years I've opened my eyes to so many things I can do with the instrument.” After so many years ...
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Concert preview: James Hill pushes into new territory - Edmonton Journal
Concert preview: James Hill pushes into new territory
Edmonton Journal
It's the same with the clawhammer banjo technique, which I've adapted into my style. You can become myopic, just focused on one thing, but in the past few years I've opened my eyes to so many things I can do with the instrument.” After so many years ...
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Local CD Review: The Lonetones - Knoxville Metro Pulse
Local CD Review: The Lonetones
Knoxville Metro Pulse
He plays a swarming rock electric guitar on one track, “Alone,” then opens the next one, “Shame,” with a clawhammer banjo riff that might have been borrowed from a 1920s 78. (He also plays mandolin and keyboards.) But most of the songs—eight and a ...
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Annie Lou keeps crowd spellbound - Agassiz-Harrison Observer
Annie Lou keeps crowd spellbound
Agassiz-Harrison Observer
... on guitar, vocals, and banjo, with New Country Rehab's John Showman on fiddle, Kim Barlow on clawhammer banjo, Max Heineman (Foggy Hogtown Boys) on upright bass, Frank Evans (Kitgut Stringband) on banjo, and Collins weighing in on mandolin.
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Modern artist rooted in tradition - ThisWeekNews
ThisWeekNews
Modern artist rooted in tradition
ThisWeekNews
“I play banjo on some of my songs, but not in a traditional way,” She said. “So, when I see someone going to town playing clawhammer banjo, I start to think I shouldn't be getting mine out any time soon, and I hope they don't come see me play,” she joked.
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