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Name: Andy Cohen Country: United States State/Province: Tennessee City: Memphis Interests: performing (professionally), teaching (professionally) Instruments: guitar, National, Dolceola, Piano, 5-string Email: rivnrev  earthlink.net Phone: 901-725-6976 |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Piedmont style blues/gospel; blues, classic ragtime, boogie & dance band piano styles, including very archaic ones; the music of Gary Davis, Big Bill Broonzy, John Hurt, Bukka White, Henry Spaulding and other blues and gospel guitar and piano players, white and black, too numerous to mention.
Entered: 12/10/06 16:36:55 EST
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Name: Gordon Berley Country: United States State/Province: Arizona City: Mesa Interests: Finding othes to jam with Instruments: Vocals, mandolin, autoharp, 12 string guitar - others Email: kyreeler1946 yahoo.com Phone: 480-834-3769 |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Brunett & Rutherford, Charlie Poole, et al, Grayson & Whitter, Highwoods String Band, Mainer's Mountainers, New Lost City Ramblers, Ralph Stanley, Riley Puckett, The Carter Family, The Skillet Lickers, Uncle Dave Macon (and that's on the American side of the fence) - note the only instruments I currently have in (actual) working condition are a mandoline and a 12-string guitar...also it's been 20+ years since I played with real people.
Entered: 12/10/06 16:35:25 EST
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Name: Joe Newberry Country: United States State/Province: North Carolina City: Durham Interests: Jamming, Socializing Instruments: Banjo, Guitar, Fiddle Email: js.newberry gmail.com Phone: (919) 672-3545 |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Late, Great - Taylor McBaine, Bookmiller Shannon, Ollie Gilbert, Tommy Jarrell, Holly Carlson, Dee Hicks, Jimmy Driftwood, Albert Hard, Fred Cockerham, Ralph Blizard, John B. Newberry, Steve Newberry, Odell Thompson, Tommy Thompson, Will Keys, Grandpa Jones, Original Carter Family, Wade Ward, Fields Ward, Norm Edmonds, John Salyer, Arthur Smith, Robert Sykes, Kyle Creed, Janette Carter, Paul Sutphin, Ernest East... Still Here - Jim Collier, Kenny Jackson, Bobb Head, Paul Brown, Marvin Gaster, Joe Thompson, Mike Bryant, Bob Atchison, John Murdock, Chris Germain, Heinrich Leonhard, A.C. Overton, Wayne Martin, Margaret Martin, LaNelle Davis, Gail Gillespie, Dwight Rogers, Mike Seeger, Bruce Molsky, Jim Newberry, Brett Riggs, Pandora Riggs, Jim Nelson, Bill Hicks, Mike Craver, Jim Watson, Frank Bode, J.P. Fraley, Andy Cahan, Rafe Stefanini, Bruce Greene, Bob Herring, Jim Lansford, Kim Lansford, Cathy Barton, Dave Para, Joel Zimmer, Bill Rogers, Mac Benford, Jim Ruth, Lee Ruth...
Entered: 12/10/06 16:03:34 EST
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Name: Jim Garber Country: United States State/Province: New York City: Yorktown Heights Interests: some of the above Instruments: Fiddle, mandolin, guitar, ukulele, banjo, bass Email: jimg paperclipdesign.com Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Skillet Lickers; John Salyer; Kenny Baker; Buddy Thomas; Ed Haley; just about any fiddler from Kentucky; also, varied mandolin styles: old time (natch); blues; rags; parlor styles; Italian and other ethnic styles
Entered: 12/10/06 15:01:51 EST
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Name: Barry Cooper Country: United States State/Province: North Carolina City: Asheville Interests: more play, less talk Instruments: fiddle, guitar, banjo, mandolin Email: fidlplyr swbell.net Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Styles: Melodies. Almost anything oldtime except Round Peak; Tunes in G predominate my repertory. I'm somewhat of a tune slut Influences: Buddy Thomas; Melvin Wine; Wilson Douglas; Henry Reed;Oscar Wright. Many of the Kentucky fiddlers collected by Bruce Greene, Mark Wilson & Whit Meade.
Entered: 12/10/06 14:00:09 EST
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Name: Dave Hall Country: United States State/Province: Connecticut City: Deep River Interests: socializing, jamming Instruments: banjo, guitar Email: dhall08 snet.net Phone: |
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Entered: 12/10/06 11:51:51 EST
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Name: Tony Thomas Country: United States State/Province: Florida City: Sunny Isles Beach Interests: jamming, discussing old time music, discussin African American traditional music, discussing Instruments: guitar, five string banjo Email: writerrad aol.com Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Been playing old time guitar since mid 1960s, started playing banjo in 1998o, fiddle not ready for prime time. I play clawhammer and have begun to play two fingered and Gus Cannon's three and four-finger styles. My big influence has been the Black banjo players like Gus Cannon (he made some great clawhammer that is never been made public), Dink Roberts, and Josh Thomas as well as a broad number of European American old time players especially players from West Virginia and Kentucky. I rarely listen to contemporary old time players but I treasure Paul Brown, Allen Hart, Pete Peterson, Walt Koken, Bob Carlin, Clarke Buehling, Bob Winans, Greg Adams, and George R, Gibson. I must say my banjo playing has been helped by the inspiration of a number of non-banjo playing (or closet banjo playing) musicians like Kerry Blech and Alice Gerard (both can play banjo better than I may ever play it even though both are primarily known as fiddlers nowadays and Alice is known as a singer). Course I would not be here today if it wasn't for local players Don Seneti in Hartford in the 1960s and today, Larry Crismond in South Florida. We all include the NLCR in getting this all going. I must say after decades of fan worship, I have Mike Seeger and Tom Paley to be great and elegant people to pick with and to study with answers on bigger things than music. I arely play in bands, most of my work is solo. I organized the Black Banjo Then and Now Web group and the 2005 Black banjo gathering. Since then I have gotten more and more into scholarship, research and writing about the history of the banjo in general and the history of African American banjo playing in particular. I have two chapters in two different scholarly anthologies somewhere in the process of publication, one on the banjo playing of Gus Cannon and another about the end of the Black banjo tradition. I am looking for any kind of contact with any person interested in the banjo from any perspective, though I would love to find people to hang with and pick with. I won a beautiful Mike Long Dreadnaught at a Bluegrass festival this spring and have accentuated my guitar playing, so I can back other banjoists and fiddlers as well as pick one of my five banjos. Tony I am particularly interested in meeting anyone in the Miami or Fort Lauderdale area who plays old time music who would like to get together and play some music
Entered: 12/10/06 10:24:40 EST
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Name: Eli Smith Country: United States State/Province: New York City: New York Interests: jamming, teaching Instruments: banjo, harmonica, guitar, fiddle, autoharp, tub bass Email: eli_Smith hotmail.com Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Roscoe Holcomb, Rufus Crisp, Pete Steele, Dock Boggs, Bascom Lunsford, Samantha Bumgarner, Banjo Bill Cornett, Deroll Adams, Mike Seeger, Odell / Nate Thompson, Dink Roberts, Doc Watson, Gaither Carlton, Clarence Ashley and many more.
Entered: 12/10/06 09:14:24 EST
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Name: Mike T. Country: United States State/Province: Arizona City: Glendale Interests: Jamming, socializing Instruments: clawhammer banjo Email: mt897 hotmail.com Phone: |
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Entered: 12/10/06 08:12:33 EST
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Name: Jeff Menzies Country: United States State/Province: Ontario City: Toronto Interests: Making banjos, playing old-time music........ Instruments: Banjo, Upright bass, guitar, ukulele Email: jeffsbanjer yahoo.com Phone: |
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Entered: 12/10/06 07:32:43 EST
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Name: James Country: United Kingdom State/Province: Other City: London Interests: Jamming, socializing Instruments: Banjo, Fiddle & Guitar Email: bicycle_repair_man85 yahoo.co.uk Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Uncle Dave, Fiddlin John, The Holy Modal Rounders, sacred harp, Roscoe Holcomb, Dock Boggs, Fuzzy mountain string band...square dances, hoedowns, moonshine, intoxicated dancing, silly lyrics, foot stomping...you get the idea- basically anything old-timey!
Entered: 12/10/06 06:04:14 EST
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Name: Mike Gemberling Country: United States State/Province: Texas City: Sherman Interests: jamming, socializing Instruments: guitar, banjo, mandolin etc. Email: wrangler jerusalemridgeranch.com Phone: 214-564-8955 |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: clawhammer, round peak, bluegrass, folk, 2 finger. I learned initially from western N.C. musicians.
Entered: 12/10/06 06:02:22 EST
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Name: Maximilian Hult Country: Sweden State/Province: City: Stockholm Interests: jamming, socializing Instruments: clawhammer banjo Email: max hult.com Phone: |
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Entered: 12/10/06 02:46:42 EST
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Name: Melanie Biltz Country: United States State/Province: Kansas City: Mulvane Interests: jamming, socializing, catching the music Instruments: banjo Email: Melanie_Biltz webs-home.net Phone: 316-777-4535 |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: I have a sweet old Kay that my kids gave me, strung with Nylguts and I aim to play Old Time. I've been influenced by my Teacher, Bill Murray of OTC Varmitz, Mary Z. Cox, Uncle Dave (I think I'm in love), and the Winfield Bluegrass Festival
Entered: 12/10/06 02:42:41 EST
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Name: Nicola Leather Country: United States State/Province: Wisconsin City: Milwaukee Interests: Jamming!!, socializing Instruments: Banjo, Tin Whistle, guitar and working on accordian Email: nleather gmail.com Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Hobart Smith, Doc Watson, Roscoe Holcomb, Mary Cox, Dock Boggs, Mike Seeger ...
Entered: 12/10/06 02:23:01 EST
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Name: David Brooks Country: United States State/Province: Kentucky City: Louisville Interests: Jamming, learning, some teaching, performing Instruments: Guitar, banjo Email: brooksdav bellsouth.net Phone: 502-454-4421 |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: In 2001 or so, I started playing my guitar and banjo again after very infrequent playing for more than 15 years (hippie flashback?). My Vega longneck from 1969 quietly told me that it would prefer clawhammer to the folk/bluegrass I played pn it years ago. So I found an old edition of Ken perlman's "Clawhammer Banjo" I had gotten years earlier and began buying more of Ken's materials, mostly off Ebay. More recently, I have been learning from Dan Levenson's books and workshops. A friend suggested that I began sitting in on the volunteer band at the Louisville Contra Dance Society's Monday night dances. That opened the world of oldtime music up to me. Playing with fiddlers was great -- even if I could just barely keep up! Oldtime music is infectious, and I feel like the journey has just begun for me.
Entered: 12/10/06 02:03:18 EST
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Name: Mary Z. Cox Country: United States State/Province: Florida City: Tallahassee Interests: Teaching banjo camps and workshops, concerts, festivals Instruments: banjo, gourd banjo, cigar box banjo, mountain dulcimer Email: maryz maryzcox.com Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Mary Z. Cox, a banjoholic with 13 banjos, has been playing since the age of 12, and is a past 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 five CDs, has written four banjo tab books, and has been published in Banjo Newsletter, Studio Magazine, and Old Time Herald. Her music has been played on BBC and National Public radio and is available on itunes worldwide. Mary Z. is also a dulcimaniac with seven mountain dulcimers, a past 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 Transylvania County (North Carolina) Old Time Music Competition. Her "Dulcimer Fandango" CD, with its string band style dulcimer remains a favorite with dulcimer and banjo enthusiasts. 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.
Entered: 12/10/06 01:43:45 EST
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Name: Tom Collins Country: United States State/Province: Massachusetts City: Salem Interests: jamming, teaching, socializing Instruments: banjo, mandolin, banjo uke Email: fivemiles gmail.com Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers, Dyke's Magic City Trio, Skillet Lickers, Uncle Dave Macon, Brad Leftwich, Walt Koken, John Specker Please visit my band's site http://newhottimes.com for red hot old time music and a performance schedule! Cheers! Tom
Entered: 12/10/06 01:04:39 EST
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Name: Gary Hall Country: United States State/Province: Maine City: Farmington Interests: jamming with other old-time players Instruments: mandolin, clawhammer banjo Email: turquois midmaine.com Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Play mandolin and clawhammer banjo with a group called Narrow Gauge String Band, playing tunes that range from old country to pre Civil War tunes. Now working on a new cd that will be all French Canadian fiddle tunes.
Entered: 12/09/06 23:22:58 EST
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Name: Paul Kemner Country: United States State/Province: Ohio City: Toledo Interests: performing, jamming, learning, etc Instruments: Ukulele, Bass, Autoharp, 1-key flute, etc Email: pkemner bright.net Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: CD reissues of old scratchy field recordings. What I remember of old Black Swamp fiddle players.
Entered: 12/09/06 22:53:31 EST
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Name: Michael Long Country: United States State/Province: Oklahoma City: Tulsa Interests: Jamming Instruments: Banjo Email: malong aol.com Phone: |
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Entered: 12/09/06 17:21:49 EST
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Name: David M. Allen Country: United States State/Province: Texas City: Dallas Interests: jamming and teaching Instruments: fiddle, banjo and guitar Email: frfiddle hotmail.com Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Hirma Stamper, Estil Bingham, Joe Birchfield, Norman Edmonds, Isham Monday, Burl Hammons, Melvine Wine, Bruce Greene and all his sources
Entered: 12/09/06 15:56:44 EST
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Name: Ned Banta Country: United States State/Province: Colorado City: Littleton Interests: jamming Instruments: clawhammer banjo, fiddle Email: nbanta comcast.net Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Old time, New England, French Canadian. For info on monthly jam in Denver area: http://www.bantagallery.net/oldtime
Entered: 12/09/06 12:09:28 EST
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Name: Fred Keller Country: United States State/Province: Minnesota City: Sandstone Interests: jamming, socializing, teaching, performing Instruments: mandolin, beginner fiddler Email: fkeller (at) scicable (dot) net Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Everything! Fraleys, Haleys, Stampers, and Gellerts; Weasels, Stompers, Sheiks, and Bogtrotters. I like Wine, Carpenter, Jarrell, and Cockerham--from Field Recorded stuff to contemporary players.
Entered: 12/09/06 08:41:11 EST
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Name: Don Sutley Country: United States State/Province: Florida City: Pensacola Interests: Jamming and socializing. Instruments: Banjo, guitar and fiddle. Email: dbsutley yahoo.com Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: I play mostly clawhammer style banjo. I guess my biggest infuence is Grandpa Jones, although seeing Leroy Troy play was what made me get a banjo. I pretty much just bang away on it. It's not very intricate or pretty. I like old time and bluegrass music, but I play mostly gospel. There's not much of an old time scene in this area, but several of the local churches have "singings". I'm also a member of the local bluegrass association. I'm easy to spot at one of the singings or bluegrass meeting: I'm the only guy playing clawhammer and/or an open back banjo.
Entered: 12/09/06 08:28:38 EST
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Name: Bill Eickmeier Country: United States State/Province: Tennessee City: Nashville Interests: Sure, all of those, mainly learning and improving Instruments: 2005 Lee Rose Hill 12 inch openback; 2006 Romero 13 inch custom walnut openback Email: eickmewg comcast.net Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Clawhammer, Round Peak and other styles.
Entered: 12/09/06 08:12:58 EST
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Name: Justin Holt Country: United States State/Province: Texas City: Fort Worth Interests: Jamming, etc... Instruments: Mandolin Email: robertjustinholt yahoo.com Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Monroe Brothers, Foghorn Stringband
Entered: 12/09/06 08:03:25 EST
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Name: John Minier Country: United States State/Province: New York City: Highland Mills Interests: jamming, learning Instruments: guitar, banjo, mandolin, a little fiddle (4" long) Email: johnminier yahoo.com Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: W Va roots. Played with LJ Slavin, Chuck Anton and Bill and Nancy Sluys in So. Fla. in the 80's. Maggie Hammonds called us the "Florida boys". Now jam in the Philly area. Great people there. Very paitent with beginners. They are my influence more than anything.
Entered: 12/09/06 07:18:51 EST
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Name: David Algeo Smith Country: United States State/Province: Wisconsin City: Oshkosh Interests: teaching, jamming, recording, and traveling to fiddle contests Instruments: fiddle Email: algeofiddle yahoo.com Phone: 920-230-6503 |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: I like lots of fiddlers including Tim Foss, Rhys Jones, Dennis and Kimber Ludiker, the Clarridges, and many others. I enjoy both listening to and playing the "old-timey" styles as well as the "progressive," contest styles. Currently, I teach Suzuki violin/fiddle at the Oshkosh (WI) Suzuki Music Program. I also have lots of fun "playing" with my website: http://www.thisbigstringband.com
Entered: 12/09/06 06:06:29 EST
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Name: Les & Lou Ann Preston Country: United States State/Province: Arizona City: Peoria Interests: performing,jamming,teaching Instruments: guitar,mandolin,banjo,bass Email: les.preston cox.net Phone: 623 824-5342 |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: old-time, folk and bluegrass.
Entered: 12/09/06 04:52:32 EST
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Name: Bob Taylor, aka Robert Love Taylor Country: United States State/Province: Virginia City: Independence Interests: old-time waltzes, breakdowns, raggy tunes, blues, early country, jamming, playing for dances, festivals, fiddlers conventions Instruments: fiddle Email: rtaylor bucknell.edu Phone: 276-655-4344 |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: I play with the Buck Mountain Band, based in Grayson County, Virginia. Some influences and favorites: J. P. Fraley, Ralph Blizzard, Ed Haley, Melvin Wine, Richard Bowman, James Burris, Greg Hooven, Eddie Bond, Betty Vornbrock, Benton Flippen, Tommy Jarrell, Arthur Smith, John Carson, G. B. Grayson, Art Galbraith. website: http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rtaylor
Entered: 12/09/06 04:22:32 EST
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Name: Randy Adams Country: United States State/Province: Nebraska City: Lincoln Interests: old time music Instruments: banjo, guitar, mountain dulcimer Email: randy littlebrownjugband.com Phone: 402-610-3816 |
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Entered: 12/09/06 04:20:59 EST
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Name: Diane Sanabria Country: United States State/Province: Massachusetts City: Florence Interests: Teaching, jamming, gigs, etc... Instruments: Most fretted instruments, clawhammer banjo and guitar specialty Email: queenee banjoqueen.com Phone: 413 584-8769 |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: I am influenced by everything I 've heard. I teach music lessons and transcribe all kinds of music for clawhammer banjo and guitar. I also play music for a living.
Entered: 12/09/06 04:15:47 EST
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Name: Michael Mendelson Country: United States State/Province: California City: Santa Ynez / Santa Barbara Interests: composing, performing, teaching Instruments: fiddle, guitar Email: michael slidingscalemusic.com Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: - contra, swing, bluegrass, old-timey, Scottish - influences: Benny Thomasson, Tiny Moore, Clarence White, Doc Watson, Bob Wills, Svend Asmussen, Natalie MacMaster, Rodney Miller - I'm working on a new CD of original tunes - check out the web site: http://www.slidingscalemusic.com/
Entered: 12/09/06 04:12:50 EST
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Name: John Fabke Country: United States State/Province: Wisconsin City: Poynette Interests: playing, teaching, gardening,canning Instruments: banjo,mandolin,guitar Email: johnfabke(at)hotmail.com Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Pre-war blues, cajun and string band music. Brother Duets. Trad bluegrass.
Entered: 12/09/06 04:07:13 EST
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Name: Joe Cline Country: United States State/Province: North Carolina City: Charlotte Interests: Contra dance music, performing o-t, BG, swing, acoustic country Instruments: guitar, mandolin, URB Email: kilocycles gmail.com Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Thirty-five years with the same Bluegrass band; influenced by Kyle Creed, Joe Stuart, Bill & Charlie Monroe, Reno & Smiley, Clark Kessinger & Gene Meade.
Entered: 12/09/06 03:31:22 EST
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Name: Janie Rothfield Country: United States State/Province: New York City: Schenectady Interests: Performing, teaching, jamming, Instruments: Fiddle and Banjo Email: janerothfield nycap.rr.com Phone: 518-522-7445 |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Old Time Fiddle and Stringband, Celtic, New England. I am also a tune "maker" of sorts and have a new CD out on 5-string productions called "In the Moment".
Entered: 12/09/06 03:30:24 EST
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Name: Gail Gillespie Country: United States State/Province: North Carolina City: Carrboro Interests: small sessions & socializing Instruments: banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle Email: gailg64 mindspring.com Phone: |
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Entered: 12/09/06 03:09:45 EST
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Name: PETE EASTON Country: United States State/Province: Florida City: ORANGE CITY Interests: JAMMING,SOCIALIZING,CONTRA Instruments: FIDDLE, BANJO, MANDOLIN, GUITAR Email: FIDDLE638 AOL.COM Phone: 386-795-1730 |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: SOUTHERN MOUNTAIN STYLE. TOMMY, FRED, KYLE,AND EVERYONE FROM MARS HILL OLD TIME MUSIC WEEK
Entered: 12/09/06 02:08:11 EST
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Name: Kathryn Forester Country: Canada State/Province: Ontario City: London Interests: family, learning, computers, socializing Instruments: banjo, mandolin, guitar Email: onaroll sympatico.ca Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Styles: clawhammer, bluegrass Influences: Donald Zepp, Mark 'bluehammer' Johnson
Entered: 12/09/06 01:48:07 EST
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Name: Jim Pankey Country: United States State/Province: Georgia City: Chatsworth Interests: Jamming, Socializing Instruments: Banjo Email: wildjimbo wildjimbo.com Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: I play a variety of banjo styles including clawhammer.
Entered: 12/09/06 00:53:32 EST
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Name: Terri Lukacko Country: United States State/Province: New York City: Albany Interests: Jamming, tune collecting, proselytizing; festival organizing and internet support. Available for workshops and slow jam leading in the U.S. or Australia. Instruments: fiddle; dabbling on banjo, mando, and uke Email: fiddlejammer fiddlejammer.com Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Rayna Gellert, countless festival mentors. Info and advice for novice fiddlers at http://fiddlejammer.blogspot.com
Entered: 12/09/06 00:02:58 EST
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Name: Steve Kendall Country: Canada State/Province: Ontario City: London Interests: jamming, socializing Instruments: banjo Email: skendal rogers.com Phone: 519 433 2982 |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: clawhammer banjo. I'm a refugee from '60s folk scare who eventually got into old time music.
Entered: 12/08/06 23:38:21 EST
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Name: Mike Iverson Country: United States State/Province: Utah City: Harrisville Interests: Teaching and performance Instruments: Clawhammer banjo Email: mike bluesageband.com Phone: (801)782-0534 |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Play 'western' version of old-time and folk music with my Blue Sage Trio. Also have a popular website with high quality clawhammer banjo tabs. Check it out at: http://www.banjoutah.com
Entered: 12/08/06 20:55:21 EST
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Name: Howie Meltzer Country: United States State/Province: Washington City: Bellingham Interests: fiddling, skiing, festivals Instruments: fiddle, some banjo and mandolin in the closet Email: hmmeltz hotmail.com Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Love playing for square, contra and ceili dances but don't do it as much as I used to. Road trips to festivals is hard to beat. Having fun playing in several bands, one (or more) old-time, one playing Celtic vocal oriented folk-rock and another playing some Western Swing/rock-a-billy and what I can only call mutant bluegrass! I like playing French tunes when I get the chance. Will play for food and/or ski lift tickets!
Entered: 12/08/06 18:22:17 EST
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Name: Michael Springer Country: United States State/Province: California City: Chico Interests: jamming, socializing, teaching Instruments: fiddle, clawhammer banjo, backup guitar. Email: springerms1 juno.com Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: On "hornpipey" (melodic) tunes, Franklin George, French Carpenter, Luther Strong and William Stepp are influences. Tommy Jarrell is the main influence on hoedowns. Bowing surprisingly resembles Melvin Wine's although I wasn't listening to him when I was learning. (Downbow multipattern bower) Clawhammer Banjo playing is about 1/2 Round Peak influence, 1/4 Hobart Smith, and 1/4 Wade Ward. I use drop thumb as much as a rhythmic device as anything else. ezfolk page: http://c1.ezfolk.com/bands/1088/index.php
Entered: 12/08/06 17:04:32 EST
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Name: John Flynn Country: United States State/Province: Missouri City: St. Louis Interests: jamming, getting a regular stringband going Instruments: mandolin, guitar, harmonica Email: jflynncsc aol.com Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Influences: Curtis Buckhannon Skip Gorman Clyde Curley Billy Mathews There is a large, active OT community in St. Louis. We have the St. Louis Folk School that teaches OT music to dozens of students of all ages every term. We also have some top notch artists: The Buckhannon Brothers, The Ill-Mo Boys, Dave Landreth, just to name a few. This region has a rich history of OT music and a style all its own.
Entered: 12/08/06 15:52:19 EST
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Name: glenn patterson Country: Canada State/Province: Quebec City: Montreal Interests: jamming, socializing, teaching, performing Instruments: fiddle, clawhammer banjo, flatpicking guitar Email: captain_fingers canada.com Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Fiddle: Currently, I'm studying the northeastern Kentucky repertoire of players like Buddy Thomas, George Hawkins, Roger Cooper, and Alfred Bailey. I have also learned a bit of the WVa styles (Edden Hammons, Melvin Wine, and Wilson Douglas) and the NC stuff (Tommy Jarrell and Benton Flippen). Buddy Thomas is probably my single biggest influence and I've learned many of his tunes. I probably know more tunes from Kentucky than other states thanks to a workshop with John Harrod that opened me up to a vast world of fiddle music. Banjo: I played banjo prior to learning fiddle. I don't know what specific clawhammer style I play in, but I can transfer most of my fiddle tunes to banjo on the fly without to much hassle. I don't play too melodically, just the occasional drop thumb or galax lick. My influences are Gaither Carlton, Hobart Smith, Clyde Davenport, and Tommy Jarrell.
Entered: 12/08/06 14:28:41 EST
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Name: Ben Bateson Country: United States State/Province: Tennessee City: Murfreesboro Interests: Jamming, Teaching, Socializing Instruments: Banjo Email: London1666 gmail.com Phone: |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Dwight Diller and other West Virginia pickers (my home state). Adam Hurt more recently.
Entered: 12/08/06 13:53:03 EST
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Name: Fritzi Wisdom Country: United States State/Province: Pennsylvania City: Bryn Mawr Interests: jamming, socializing, singing, teaching beginners Instruments: fiddle (also guitar, ukulele, piano) Email: fritzi unconventional-wisdom.com Phone: 610-527-7080 |
Styles/Influences, Other Info: Primarily NC; also WV, VA. Influences: Norristown (PA) School District, Palmer Loux, Byard Ray, Sheila Kay Adams (singing) My husband Bill and I host an open strictly OT jam at our home from about 8 to 12 on the first Friday of every month from October through May. Musicians of all levels welcome, as well as listeners. Write or call for information and directions.
Entered: 12/08/06 13:15:14 EST
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