Benton Flippen plays "Sally Ann" 10/14/07

Benton Flippen, fiddler of Mount Airy NC, plays "Sally Ann" with his band The Smokey Valley Boys, which at this event includes Frank Bode on guitar and vocals and Andy Edmonds on banjo. Frank introduces the tune as the "Surry County [North Carolina] National Anthem." Read a little about Benton at http://www.unctv.org/folkways/fiddle/bentonflippen.html and search online for his two CDs. Recorded at the NC Museum of History, Raleigh NC, on October 14, 2007. The performance was part of the "Music of the Carolinas" series sponsored by the Museum of History and Pine Cone, the Piedmont Council of Traditional Music.

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• Benton
• Flippen
• Smokey
• Valley
• Boys
• Frank
• Bode
• Andy
• Edmonds
• Sally
• Ann
• fiddle
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• Music

[Lostmychops]

Thank you so much for uploading this marvelous footage. Mr Flippen is one of my favourite fiddlers, and Sally Ann is one of my favourite fiddle tunes, so stumbling upon this was a real godsend! I don't care that it's out of sync and ends abruptly, it's just great to see the man in action- and the other videos are fantastic too, by the way. Thanks again.

[msouthern9763]

Thanks for your comment. I'm hoping to get the sync problem corrected, and I have a few more of Benton's tunes to post once I do. My camera (Casio z77) is supposed to be optimized for YouTube, and YouTube tells me I have an incompatible video or audio codec. Frustrating.

Mike

[Yaddahay]

Indeed, a/v recordings like these are absolute treasures for those learning. Its one thing to hear a recording of a tune. Its something else to see what the fiddler is doing whilst playing the tune. Absolutley invaluable. I really wish that more old timers would take the time to make a/v recordings of theirselves playing their tunes so we can see what their fingers are doing and how they use the bow.

[xanther97]

I was at this event. Remember it well. Check out my own Old Time videos on YouTube--xanther97

PS--someone should comment on the all-night square dancing at Mt. Airy on Saturday after the competiotion is over.

[FancyGapClawhammer]

This man is an amazing fiddle and banjo player! Best two finger banjo player I know!

[Blondes123]

So am I!

[huttincotton1]

i'm from this city!!

[colindominy]

Very nice !! A lovely genuine old-time rendition of this most famous of old-time fiddle tunes. Played in the good old way. Sublime.

[bluridgegal]

I saw Ora Watson play about 4 years ago. she was great, and well in to her 90's then. Doc Watson played after her, and mentioned that she'd been married to a cousin of his, I believe, Mr. Willard Watson.

[johneee3]

Loved this. Do you know of a lady named Ora Watson who used to play fiddle and dance when she was in her 80s?