G'Day All, The Midlands-North Regional Banjo Rally under the auspices of The International Banjo Circle. Venue is Ridgeway Village Hall, Ridgeway, near...
A brief information about Gambia for those planning to come for the conference and festival July 14th to 16th 2006. The Gambia is located in West Africa...
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... really big ... up just ... be ... If you wish to compile the thousands of entries and establish categories that are objective that all can agree upon and...
Say, Rhiannon, As I skim through all the help you are getting, I have the thought to say that IMHO, you are the one who gets to define what's helpful and what...
Banjo From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Old 6-string zither banjo For other uses, see Banjo (disambiguation) The banjo is a...
NPR featured a program on the Edison Cylinder Restoration Project being conducted at the University of California at Santa Barbara... In addition to...
... unmentioned idea, goes well for you. BE sure to mention every single type of banjo player...ever. ... I was just responding to what this individual was...
Thanks for your post. We prefer that persons with information available on other sites, simply post the link which is much easier than seeing an entire post...
... There are several archives of cylinder recordings online that contain extensive banjo recordings. I am going to set up section in the links to put them...
... If you had problems figuring this out or only got a blip from one song the actual link is here http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/blackartists.php This is...
At http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/cakewalks.php the UCSB cylinder program has a "Cylinder Radio" program focusing on Cakewalks and Rags. It contains some...
Rhiannon and I have been working together offlist to design the most efficient way that we can build this database. Pretty soon Rhiannon will be emailing the...
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftvhtml/ftvhome.html Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 consists of approximately one...
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/title.html Audio recordings of Black former slaves interviewed from the 1920s to the 1970s on library of...
... I just this week ran across a real jewel of that genre (which I had not heard anywhere before), among the "ex-slave narratives" on the LOC site-- "Blow...
Hey, Rhiannon: I'm delighted to see something like this developing. I know it will help someone like me-- being new to the string band culture. I have a 2 CD...
Hi, I think I am sending this to a Heath? I saw a reply/inquiry to my post about this CD on the Yahoo mail page but somehow, I must have deleted it? If I have...
Just a reply to Œceltic traditions¹ in the Appalachians  depends on how you are defining Œceltic¹ - if you are saying that is the Œpan-british isles ...
Well Celtic could also mean people whose ancestors spoke a Celtic language - lots of those in the Appalachians. Losing your language to oppression does not...
... But Allen wrote "Appalachian mediated Celtic traditions, which should cause no problem, with your strict (and accurate) definition, I think. Joel...
well, that's a good question; it's all a question of definition. but then you get into-- if we're talking generations removed, does it still count? If my ...
If we're talking about music, the real question would be, is the musical tradition intact? or, is the current musical tradition recognizably influenced by x...
That's totally true...i've recently read an excellent article written about the celtic influence of appalachian fiddling (also talks about the african ...
Hi Sule  here with Talitha McKenzie, who used to do lots of sea shanteys; she says (forgive me if this has already been suggested) look for W.B. Whall ...
Sorry if I go on a rant but this topic is one that I am particularly interested in. The Appalachians were settled by all sorts of people, the minority of...
Thanks to all who inquired about my banjo for sale, but it's now sold. Now back to the forum I go! Turbo ... New Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Call regular...
