David Brose/Coal Creek March

Here's an informal video of David Brose playing "Coal Creek March" for my "Be a Banjo Star" workshop at the John C. Campbell School in Brasstown, NC.

Tommy Bledsoe/Cumberland Gap

Here's another Florida banjo player, Tommy Bledsoe. Although originally from Tennessee, he lives in St. Augustine, Florida and has performed and taught in Florida for many years. This was taped at the Florida Folk Festival a few years ago.

Banjoquest begins today!

Banjoquest begins with a field recording that I taped several years ago in the campground at the Florida Old Time Championships. Here is banjo builder, Lo Gordon, playing "Peach Bottom Creek" on his Cedar Mountain Banjo.
http://cedarmtnbanjos.com
My family has known Lo and his family for many years from Florida festivals. Now Lo and his family live in Brevard, North Carolina where Lo and Tim build his wonderful Cedar Mountain banjos, and Mary and Lo own Celestial Mountain Music.
http://www.celestialmtnmusic.com They host a wonderful jam for all to enjoy on Tuesday nights at the store. Lo taught me this tune a couple years ago, and we recorded it as a melody/ harmony duet, on two Cedar Mountian banjos, on our newest CD, "Florida Banjo." Lo's banjo tab to both the melody and harmony to this tune are in "Florida Banjo Tab Book"
http://www.maryzcox.com
Hope you enjoy hearing him play in the field as much as I have.
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Here's another North Carolina friend and banjoist that Bob and I have known and played music with for over thirty years. We played music and had great fun together when Bob and I lived in Cashiers, NC while Bob was at Western Carolina University. Today, John plays guitar and banjo in a band called the Cashiers Music Company.
http://cashiersmusiccompany.com
He and his wife, Marsha, and their lovely home, were just featured in the October 2008 issue of Southern Living.

Bob filmed this casual video of John playing Ragtime Annie on his new Chuck Lee Banjo. I join him on my new Goldtone 5 string Banjo cello in a jam in the little log cabin.