Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Clawhammer and Old-Time Songs

Sawmill tuning (gDGCD). Based off the playing of David Bragger (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar3bkLux3-g) which is based off the playing of Hobart Smith. The tune itself is thought to be traditional.

A banjo and fiddle duet, a new old time song.

From the Kentucky fiddler Kelly Gilbert. Banjo tuned gEADE.

Double C tuning

A classic Celtic/British/American fiddle tune, played on the Night Sky banjo

This is a demo of the Night Sky banjo, accompanying my vocal of this great Stephen C. Foster tune. I apologize for the roughness of both the playing and singing. I was recorded on a Monday morning, need I say more?

First piece from suite Important Birds

For the old-time Tune of the Week, 2/24/17, Erynn wrote this song after earning an Appalachian Fellowship Award and spending time in Kentucky to research the music. The tune was her thank you to the local folk with a little "wistfulness thrown in" for her departure.

I'm playing on a Gold Tone cello banjo using 2-finger picking style. I'm playing AB rather than AAB. The tuning is comparable to double C, but tuned down and the key comes out in G, just like Erynn's recording on her CD "Meet Me in the Music."

Jake Phelps was a Kentucky fiddler who is known for the "unusual tunes" he played. This recording is multi-tracked with cello banjo accompaniment. I find Across the Plains enchanting and think of the Westward Ho pioneers beginning their journey, before the problems set in....