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New CD. Girl With the Banjo Tattoo!!! "You've simply got to appreciate how the vivacious drive and charismatic magnetism of Mary Z Cox's banjo and dulcimer playing draw us right into her old-timey music. " --Review in Sun209(Jan 2, 2012) by Joe Ross ************************************************************** Mary's 3 most recent cds, Girl With the Banjo Tattoo, Drumming On the Edge of Banjo, & Florida Banjo have all been added to the Pandora World Music Genome and are available for listening on Pandora radio. ***************************************************************************** Mary Z. Cox, a banjoholic with 17 banjos, has been playing since she was 12, and is a two time Florida champion. She has won old time music competitions on banjo, dulcimer, and string band in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina and Tennessee and was chosen by Banjo Newsletter readers in 2006 as the fourth favorite clawhammer banjo player in the world. She has recorded 7 CDs, has written 6 banjo tab books, and has been published in Banjo Newsletter, Studio Magazine, Old Time Herald & Dulcimer Player News. Her music has been played on BBC and NPR's All Song's Considered, Thistle & Shamrock and is available on itunes worldwide. *************************************************************************************************************** Mary Z. is also a dulcimaniac with 12 mountain dulcimers, a Florida mountain dulcimer champion, as well as the first place winner in the 2006 Uncle Dave Macon Days in Tennessee and the first place dulcimer champion at the 2006, 2007, 2009 & 2011 Transylvania County (North Carolina) Old Time Music Competition. New in 2009--"Easy String Band Method for Mountain Dulcimer" instruction book with tab and audio cd.*********************************************************** New in 2010--Drumming On the Edge of Banjo--with master drummer, Yazid and George Clinton *********************************************************************************************************** Mary Z. and guitarist husband, Bob, have entertained audiences with dulcimer and banjo concerts and workshops from coast to coast. Mary Z. and Bob enjoy introducing students of all ages to new tunes, techniques, and the dulcimer and banjo life. ************************************************************************************************************ TheGirl With the Banjo Tattoo Banjo Tab book is now available with banjo tabs to all the tunes on Girl With the Banjo Tattoo & Drumming On the Edge Of Banjo CDs : ************************************************************************ "If you suspect you need a new banjo--you do. Trust your musical instincts. If an instrument calls to you to buy it, don't fight destiny. It was meant to be :) "