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The old-time tune Big Eyed Rabbit played on fretless banjo by Brian Scott.

If you are interested in learning this tune, there is a good tablature ...

I first heard this tune played by John Specker, of Andover VT.

"Let Me Fall," performed by Tommy Jarrell (fiddle and vocal); Chester McMillian (guitar); Frank Bodie (guitar); Ray Chatfield (five-string banjo) a...

Alan Kaufman - fiddle, Marc Horowitz- banjo, David Markowitz - guitar - recorded at Lake Genero, 2009

Stephanie Coleman, Adam Hurt, and Beth Williams Hartness play a medley of two old-time fiddle tunes, "Glory in the Meetinghouse" and "Squirrel Hunt...

Arkansas Trav

Joe Herrmann & Adam Hurt perform the traditional tune 'Cindy' at the Fiddle Summit concert, one event from the Upper Potomac Fiddle Retreat Weekend...

After a concert of ballads with Tim Eriksen, I asked Riley to play something lively from his old stomping grounds, Mt Airy, N.C. (he played Breakin...

Recorded on April 8, 2011 using a Flip Video camera.

Classic Old-Time Music from Smithsonian Folkways- this is probably my favorite song on the compilation.

Patty Loveless sings Pretty Polly

Awesome evening of music at The Front Hall with Old Sledge performing old time tunes. Old Sledge is Chance McCoy (fiddle, mandolin, banjo, vocals),...

David Holt performs "Pretty Polly" a song he learned from Dellie Norton from Sodom, North Carolina. This is one of the oldest English ballads.

Jeb Puryear and Joe Thrift on fiddles, Tara Nevins and Carol Elizabeth Jones on guitars, Andy Edmonstone on bass, Tom Riccio on banjo

Fred Cockerham - Fiddle

Kyle Creed - Banjo

Kyle Creed - Fiddle

Fred Cokerham - Banjo

Fred Cockerham - Fiddle

Kyle Creed - Banjo

Fred Cockerham & Kyle Creed playing "Pretty Little Girl" (Miss).

Fred Cockerham - Fiddle & Vocal

Kyle Creed - Banjo

Traditional old time Appalachian mountain stringband music with clawhammer banjo and rhythm guitar.

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Another clip from the same jam: Brien Fain & Jake Krack. World class musicians. You can almost hear the stage show and the audience applause up h...

There are a huge number of recordings of this tune on Youtube. I haven't seen one done in the clawhammer style, so I decided to try coming up with ...

Testing the sound of my new banjo... It's a Dobson model by Kevin Enoch converted to fretless with fret markers. I strung it with Nylgut strings, t...

Lois Short, vocal and banjo, performs "Banjo Pickin' Girl" at her home in Closplint (also known as Klondike or Rutherford), Harlan County, Kentucky...

James Leva & Purgatory Mountian at a house concert in Winchester, VA on Feb. 23, 2008. James is on the fiddle with Danny Knicely on the guitar, Al ...

Richard Matteson teaches you Banjo Pickin' Girl and a simple guitar solo. His painting of Banjo Pickin' Girl on display at the Kentucky Music Hall-...

Cari Norris joins the Bluegrass Messengers at Quills to play Banjo Pickin' Girl a song she learned from her grandmother Lily May Ledford of the Coo...

John Lairs Renfro Valley

The Coon Creek Girls were a popular all-girl "string band" in the Appalachian style of folk music (a precursor of country music) which began in the...

Played on the new Whyte Laydie Eastman banjo from Bernunzio's Up-Town music. Big Scioto (often spelled and/or pronounced Scioty or Sciota) is an Oh...

Guy Wolff playing another version of the Blackest Crow inspired by the playing of Bruce Molsky with Julie Fowlis but this time on Clawhammer banjo ...

This is a slowed down version of Cripple Creek in double C tuning but capoed up to the fourth fret and the fifth string brought down to E .I put it...

Guy Wolff playing Angeline The Baker on a wonderful Mike Ramsey Banjo in double C tuning gCGCD at second fret is in D for fiddle players .Great old...

Guy Wolff playing Cluck Old Hen learned from Dwight Diller playing with his son at groundhogpeggy's here on YT . Sawmill tuning way down in E flat...

Flatpick Guitar arrangement of the traditional fiddle tune "Big Sciota".

Tablature available here (http://flatpickapprentice.blo­gspot.com) in case ...

This is off the Album Troubles up and Down the Road. Very cool song IMO.

The pic in the video is some water at my parents place during the fall....

Performer - Frank Proffitt

This great North Carolina old-time music artist and clawhammer banjo specialist was the source of the folk chestnut "Tom Dooley" as well as some 50...

It's not commonly known that there were many southerners who fought for the union during the Civil War. Most of them were from the mountains.This s...

On Sunday November 4, 2007 I had the chance to go flying with Paul Farber in his T-6 Texan. We flew near the shores of Northport (including the sm...

Tommy Jarrell and string band at the Edwards-Franklin House during the annual Sonker Festival, Mount Airy, North Carolina, July 23, 1983. Jarrell (...

Beth Williams Hartness sings a little Cider, Clifftop 2010

This song was written by Bascom Lamar Lundsford & Scotty Wiseman. It was one of Grandpa Jones' signature songs.