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Originally posted by LNP

This is a great post. The G 2 band from Belgium Really gets it done,they kick butt.

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Uhhmm....G2 is from Sweden.....

There are great Belgian bands, but G2 is not one of them....

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Originally posted by pickNgrin

Post your favorite here.

 

Gittin' it done in the Netherlands!

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I already thought I was seeing a familiar face.

Jerry Gout can safely be considered the first Dutchman to come up with a fully developed, convincing Scruggs style banjo as early as the mid 1960-ies.

(there were others before him, but they never made it beyond a more primitive, Stanley style approach)

He's the only one I know here who can seamlessly switch from Scruggs to frailing and back.

From the time we played together in 'Skyland' - a Staghorn and a RB-1 :

Doesn't look as though he even switched his picks around.  That's a real capability, playing clawhammer with BG picks on...

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Originally posted by RB-1

Uhhmm....G2 is from Sweden.....

There are great Belgian bands, but G2 is not one of them....

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I think the performance must have been in Belgium.

-matt

As no one else has posted anything from the UK yet,I think a good clip would be to show an up and coming bunch of youngsters in the band Flats and Sharps, including talented banjo player Kirk Bowman. These lads are all 17-18 years old and are full of fun as well as very entertaining musicians!

Great thread!  I just posted to my blog an entry entitled "Bluegrass in Tokyo".  I saw the group "The New Apple Seed" just last night at Rocky Top in the Ginza in Tokyo.   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHL1poR2-1E&feature=plcp&context=C382b24bUDOEgsToPDskJ9cNFlOsKBDtKe9GQVk5cD 

Gittin it done in Sweden:  Viagrass

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Originally posted by TopCat

As no one else has posted anything from the UK yet,I think a good clip would be to show an up and coming bunch of youngsters in the band Flats and Sharps, including talented banjo player Kirk Bowman. These lads are all 17-18 years old and are full of fun as well as very entertaining musicians!

 

 

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Sorry Mate,

Last time I looked, Northern Ireland is in the UK. BTW, so is Scotland and Wales...

Cya!

Bob

Bluegrass is one of America's finest exports. When folks speak Bluegrass, that's all the language they need. I've had such tremendous experiences helping get it done in Russia where until a couple of years ago, almost nobody had really heard it played here. Thanks dmiller for posting that video with Pete Wernick. Here's another one from 2011:

sheesh. thanks for posting that video of G2 playing you don't know my mind. That's one of my favorite songs. And that's about as good a banjo playing on it as you'll ever hear.

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Originally posted by BDCA

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Originally posted by TopCat

As no one else has posted anything from the UK yet...

 

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Sorry Mate,

Last time I looked, Northern Ireland is in the UK. BTW, so is Scotland and Wales...

Cya!

Bob

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Hello Bob,

My apologies. David Miller captioned the clip as "Ireland" which to me denotes the Republic. I didn't actually watch that particular clip or I would have realised it was in Norn Iron. As I can no longer edit my post, please take it to read "England" or even "Cornwall" if you wish.

Not sure why the snide comment re: Scotland & Wales, as pior to my post there were no posts about Scotland or Wales either, hence my belief (since I read dmiller's post as referring to Republic of Ireland) that nothing with reference to the UK had yet been posted. 

Regards

Maria 

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Hello Bob,

My apologies. David Miller captioned the clip as "Ireland" which to me denotes the Republic. I didn't actually watch that particular clip or I would have realised it was in Norn Iron. As I can no longer edit my post, please take it to read "England" or even "Cornwall" if you wish.

Not sure why the snide comment re: Scotland & Wales, as pior to my post there were no posts about Scotland or Wales either, hence my belief (since I read dmiller's post as referring to Republic of Ireland) that nothing with reference to the UK had yet been posted. 

Regards

Maria 

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Not meant to be snide but for those on this side of the pond who a re geographically challenged There is a tendency to use UK and England interchangeably. An in fact, we should be known as United Statians as" Americans" technically encompasses the entire hemisphere.

And how many from the US know what a toad in the hole is??! 

Cya!

Bob

Hey - - My apologies to all if my "country labeling" of a previous post was erroneous.

Mea culpa.  Mea sola culpa!    

So here's Gittin - R- Done​ in France​  with BLUEGRASS 43.  

(The tune kicks in at 0:47 in the video, on the Monteleone mandolin.)  

Again - - - I'm sorry if I caused any confusion by my ineptness.   

HA!!!  Here they are again from 1984.  That fiddler looks familiar, eh?   

If it's a really hot fiddle, and an untucked shirt - - - it's gotta be Sam.  

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Not meant to be snide but for those on this side of the pond who a re geographically challenged There is a tendency to use UK and England interchangeably. An in fact, we should be known as United Statians as" Americans" technically encompasses the entire hemisphere.

 

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Fair enough Bob, I assumed you were "talking" to me on the matter of Wales and Scotland. Scotland might not be part of the UK for much longer though.... but let's not go there! I'll probably get complaints from Cornish nationalists too.  Sorry for the thread drift everyone.   

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Originally posted by pickNgrin
 

Gittin' it done in the Netherlands!

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There's more where that came from.... Two Americans and two Dutchies.

From L to R:  Jay Ellingwood, Patrick Russel, Jan Pals & yours truly.

We never played together before and I haven't done trad. Bluegrass in ages neither, but we had fun anyway.....

Videos were shot by Peter Noorman, who's a real Bluegrass Promotor, here in the NE.  Venue was his Northern Picking 2010

For some reason the last video got the wrong link. Here's what should have been there instead:

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Originally posted by BDCA

 

Not meant to be snide but for those on this side of the pond who a re geographically challenged There is a tendency to use UK and England interchangeably. An in fact, we should be known as United Statians as" Americans" technically encompasses the entire hemisphere.

 

Cya!

Bob

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Huh? Claiming "United Statians" might bother our neighbor to the south whose name includes the notion of United States as well... The United Mexican States or Estados Unidos Mexicanos. 

Canada (Montréal) : Notre Dame de Grass

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbJhYsym88c&list=UUfoNIqf0BaPjIDzZE3S9T0g&index=2&feature=plcp

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Originally posted by Guy Donis

Canada (Montréal) : Notre Dame de Grass

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbJhYsym88c&list=UUfoNIqf0BaPjIDzZE3S9T0g&index=2&feature=plcp

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Originally posted by TopCat

As no one else has posted anything from the UK yet,I think a good clip would be to show an up and coming bunch of youngsters in the band Flats and Sharps, including talented banjo player Kirk Bowman. These lads are all 17-18 years old and are full of fun as well as very entertaining musicians!

 

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Just knockout!

Thanks for posting, do you know where these boys are playing out of?

Here is my humble offering......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwBrfEX7C4M

and this;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmAYYOrkRP8&feature=related

 i know, its more country than bluegrass but who's counting :0)

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Originally posted by country frank

Here is my humble offering......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwBrfEX7C4M

and this;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmAYYOrkRP8&feature=related

 i know, its more country than bluegrass but who's counting :0)

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 Country Frank swings a mean axe... what else would you expect from a guy who rides that crazy mount? 

Fred you are far too kind!

The mootercycle is a Cowasaki :0)

quote: I use my ringfinger when I switch to clawhammer. Learned it from Don Stover!

Thanks for posting the video!

Jerry

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Originally posted by Brooklynbanjoboy

Doesn't look as though he even switched his picks around.  That's a real capability, playing clawhammer with BG picks on...

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