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For folkies, retro-folkies, pseudo-folkies, proto-folkies, neo-folkies - whatever.

80 Members, Created 8/26/2011 -

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Moonshiner (Clawhammer style)

Here's my take on Moonshiner. Moonshiner
From YVBanjo 8 years ago
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Okay, I posted about this on the Open MIc group site, but here goes. Saturday I played a benefit for the local Musical Instrument Lending Library. There were venues all over town, each for a... Read More
From Paul R 8 years ago
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Stan Francis, UK Luthier passes...

Thought people may like to know that Stan Francis a much respected luthier from Liverpool UK has died, Stan designed and built one of Petes 12 string guitars which had the odd shape sound hole (later... Read More
From Banjowen 9 years ago
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Fifty Years

In September 1965 a friend dragged me to a "meeting" of the Folk Music Society at Loyola College in Montreal. I was beginning my third year. The meeting consisted of people standing around... Read More
From Paul R 11 years ago
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Not a banjo player, but ...

... John Sebastian comes from the folk tradition. I saw him on 28 June (yeah, this post is quite late) and he put on a great show (I got to photograph and talk with him at the sound check, and talk... Read More
From Paul R 12 years ago
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Blog Entry: Florida Folk Festival 2014 this weekend :) Linked by maryzcox 12 years ago
	Golden Bird (live) Linked by Marc Nerenberg 12 years ago: This is a song by Happy Traum that I learned many decades ago from a record that by now has long been out of print.
	FISHING BLUES - Marc Nerenberg Linked by Marc Nerenberg 12 years ago: Fishing Blues - with all the spicy verses you never hear.
	LE STOMP DU BOSCO (THE BOSCO STOMP) Live, with accordion Linked by Marc Nerenberg 12 years ago: A live version of Bosco Stomp, my best known arrangement by virtue of being in Ken Perlman's Clawhammer Banjo book, clawhammer banjo with accordion.
	TALKING POTATO Linked by Marc Nerenberg 12 years ago: I wrote this when I was in high school - and revived it to perform at a concert on (approximately) my 65th birthday.
Forum Post: (untitled) Linked by raharris 12 years ago
	NOTHING LEFT TO DO Linked by Marc Nerenberg 12 years ago: This is a new arrangement of a song I worte about 5 years ago.
	YOU AIN'T GOIN' NOWHERE Linked by Marc Nerenberg 12 years ago: Here's a version of this old Dylan song that combines verses from two very different versions that he recorded many years apart.
Forum Post: (untitled) Linked by maryzcox 12 years ago
	TOBY (Live, clawhammer banjo, with accordion & violin) Linked by Marc Nerenberg 12 years ago: A live public performance, with accordion and violin players sitting in, of a song I posted last week in a solo version.