Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Clawhammer and Old-Time Songs

As played by old-time Virginia fiddler Emmett Lundy. It's a beautiful little tune.

The Tune of the Week for Christmas was a unique performance of an old hymn set to a melody from a Johnson Boys version. This arrangement is base on the vocals, as sung by the great presenter Andy Alexis.

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.

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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)

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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!