"The Boatman Dance" with banjo & fiddle

"The Boatman Dance" is an old minstrel song dating back to 1843 and credited to Dan Emmett.Its celebrating the life of the Ohio river boatmen.It reminds me of the kind of songs Uncle Dave Macon used to play and it's a little hommage to this great man. I play it with a G tuning but i'm tuned low to E to fit my voice. I added a fiddle part and that's the first time i had to play in the key of E and so it sounds, but i loved it enough to keep it like this.

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• Boatman
• dance
• dan
• emmett
• banjo
• fiddle
• uncle
• dave
• macon

[kevinboue1]

Great tune and great playing!!

Thanks for posting this video, i'm trying to learn this tune and that's definitely going to help ;)

What banjo are you playing? it has a great tone and sounds real good!

Are you using nylon or nyglut string ? (seems to me these are not steel strings...).

Congrats!!

[dasilvaec]

The other day i was thinking of this particular type of music, when I came to a realization that I am sure everyone who has ever played this music has come to as well, this music is older than any living person alive. It takes a historian to talk about the past, but it takes a musician to make it come alive.

[FlatfootJohnny]

woooyeah!