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- 'Dueling banjos' scene
Dueling banjos' scene
One of the Banjo Greats
- Banjo for beginners Cripple Creek
Includes: introducing the 5-string banjo to the complete beginner, identification of all the parts, how to tune, basic chord formations, how to read banjo tablature, wearing your picks, 5 roll patterns, and he teaches you to play 4 tunes in complete detail. Tunes include: Cripple Creek, She'll be Comin Round the Mountain, Oh Susannah, and Cumberland Gap (two variations: regular and up-the-neck). (more) (less)
- Banjohangout
The Banjo Hangout news and veiws worldwide jammimg on the Banjo
- Bluegrass (open-air Ulster American Folk Park)
17th Annual Appalachian & Bluegrass Music Festival
05 September 2008 until 07 September 2008
Join thousands of visitors for Europe's premier bluegrass music event in the stunning setting of the open-air Ulster American Folk Park. Experience the electric atmosphere of a concert in the park or a stroll through the museum for an afternoon of traditional and contemporary bluegrass music as musicians and dancers from all over the world perform to hugely appreciative audiences! International and award winning artists already booked for the 2008 festival include Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, Dan Paisley & The Southern Grass from the USA and the G2 Bluegrass Band from Sweden.
Full information on our 2008 event will soon be available at www.bluegrassomagh.com. In the meantime why not check out some of our photographs from last year's festival on the news page of bluegrassomagh.com!
- Bluegrass activities in Ireland.
The aim of this site is to coordinate information on Bluegrass activities in Ireland. In order to provide the most up to date information, Links are provided to the websites of Irish Bands, Festivals & Promoters.
- Bluegrass Omagh
- Comprehensive and up-to-date news of bluegrass and old-time music events in Ireland
- Earl Scruggs was born and grew up near Shelby, North Carolina in Cleveland County.
The Worlds Best can you say anymore
- Men with Banjos and they know how to use them
Men with Banjos and they know how to use them
- Mountain Heart is blazing new trails for bluegrass
Once again, Mountain Heart is blazing new trails for bluegrass and acoustic music with the March 5th music video release of the title track from the ROAD THAT NEVER ENDS (The Live Album) on Rural Rhythm Records. This is Mountain Heart’s first music video and was produced by Josh Shilling and directed by Scott Hansen from Renown Studio. AristoMedia will distribute the video to National and Regional music video outlets in addition to their Internet and Closed Circuit panel. Jessica Bilak Porfirio, Manager of Video Marketing & Promotions with the company enthusiastically stated, “We are happy to be working with Rural Rhythm Records and Mountain Heart on this new project. We are looking forward to taking this high energy and well produced music video to our panel of outlets where we anticipate a great response.”
- The band performed over 300 live dates
From the fertile valley of Deer Lick Holler, deep in the heart of Appalachia, comes a sound that is old yet new
- They are the Hackensaw Boys—and they are in your town.
You see them in the early hours of the morning walking hotel corridors, or boldly traversing rush hour streets. They are sincere, polite but talkative men with instrument cases. They admire the local scenery and appear unfed. By day they seem incapable of action but at night they step onto a stage and with taut fiddle bows, worn cutlery and dirty strings bring you a focused, vibrant and joyful sound. They are the Hackensaw Boys—and they are in your town.
- UK Bluegrass
News and information about the British bluegrass music scene
- Ulster-Scots community
Ulster-Scots Online community website
- Welcome to the brand new Ulster-Scots Online community website.
THERE are few forums in Northern Ireland that bring together groups as polarised as the Orange Order and the Gaelic Athletic Association.
But at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival they will be rubbing shoulders as part of a unified bid to sell the Province as a must-see destination for travelling Americans
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