Benton Flippen plays "Breaking Up Christmas" 10/14/07

Benton Flippen, fiddler of Mount Airy NC, plays "Breaking Up Christmas" with his band The Smokey Valley Boys, which at this event includes Frank Bode on guitar and vocals and Andy Edmonds on banjo. 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
• Breaking
• Up
• Christmas
• fiddle
• Old
• Time
• Music

[keyshop41]

I love this song. Ican listen to Christmas music all year 'round.

[colindominy]

Mr Flippin sounds as good here as he did when he recorded on Rounder Records back in the late 70s. It's great to learn that he has this year released yet another collection of great-sounding old-time numbers. Play it sweet, boy ...

[fiddlinandy]

Thanks.  That just made my day! :-)

[buckhendrix]

A North Carolina legend and Andy Edmonds has what it takes to fill those shoes.