The
Banjo Clubhouse
Resources for Early Banjo
Hosted by Tim Twiss
The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles, and slate pencils. But give me the banjo. . . . When you want genuine music — music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strycnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth’s pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose — when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo.
Mark Twain, “Enthusiastic Eloquence,”
San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle, June 23, 1865.
Early American Music 1830-1865 by Daniel Partner
The Banjo Database by Greg Adams and George Wunderlich
Bob Winans on Syncopation from the Early Banjo Gathering 2006
Greg Adams Vocal Music and the Minstrel Banjo:Expanding the Repertoire from the Early Banjo Gathering 2006
Chuck Krepley on 19th Century Fiddling from the Early Banjo Gathering 2006 Part 1 Part 2
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Audio
Songs are listed by tutor. Just click the book to find the tunes and hear them played by various members of the Early Banjo Community. This is the single greatest source of Early Banjo Music available for your listening reference. There are over 200 songs to hear.
Send your audio file to banjosnapper and share your songs. Home recordings are fine. Another version of one already up here is okay....even encouraged. We want to hear everybody.
Post your thoughts and comments on the Briggs Site http://groups.google.com/group/Tom-Briggs
All files are WMA. Mac users can download a free Windows Media Player at http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/otherproducts.aspx?pid=windowsmedia
Don't miss the next Early Banjo Gathering schedules for Sept 12, 13, 14 2008 at Antietam. Learn, play, share, and have a great time. All levels of players welcome. Just bring a passion and curiosity for this music.
Since January 2006
