Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Clawhammer and Old-Time Songs

Here's a poor quality snippet of a dance we played. I understand it was recorded on a hand held device from a table alongside the dance floor.

A nice Celtic tune used as a contra dance tune here in America, it is in Em and only uses two chords (also a D, but it has a dramatic, catchy melody.

Banjo - aDAde Learned from my fiddle version of the transcription in Sameul Bayard's "Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife". A copy of the notation can be found at: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Cheat_River_(The)

Banjo - aDAde Hobo Pie (Barbara Johnson and Carl Baron - fiddles, Ray Frick - banjo and Bob Woodcock ? guitar) in a medley with a Ray Frick original ?Cricket in the Wood? (recorded at Gwynedd Friends Coffeehouse in April, 2003) and on the CD "we might as well be live".

Chords strummed/picked in 4/4 time

Chords strummed in 3/4 time

Sound sample of Minstrel banjo #068

It's not French and it's not a waltz. But it's the TOTW and it has some history and a story. Fun to play, though hard to play it just right!

on a resonator banjo of the third kind

My version of Clyde Troxell's "French Waltz" in gBbFBbD

An old Kentucky Tune

An appropriate time to play Thanksgiving Waltz, just at the end of this memorable national holiday and family gathering.

A current Tune of the Week, I remembered learning it a while back in a lesson with Adam Hurt. I realized I hadn't done my complete homework at that time (or at least don't have a record of it), so here's my effort starting from scratch by arranging it and taking the A part up an octave. I remember now why I like being a graduated student of Adam. His lessons were tough!

I learned this C tune from a 1931 Okeh recording of the Mississippi old time string bad the Newton County Hillbillies, featuring Alvis Massengale on fiddle. It's a practice recording from a few years ago, uploaded for the 11/11/22 Old Time TOTW. I am three finger picking my 1928 Vega Tubaphone with a semi-fretless conversion neck, in double C tuning (gCGCD)

Another tune from the great Kentucky fiddler J.P. Fraley. I worked this up and uploaded it for the Old Time Tune of the Week for November 4, 2022. I am picking my 1922 Vega Whyte Laydie with a short scale semi fretless conversion neck, in an A variant tuning (aEABE).