"Hello there, Russ. I am deeply touched by the all-round jubilation at my return to the banjo world after an absence of 11 years or so. Coincidentally, your name had crept to the top of my ‘to message’ list as a little bird told me that…"
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Melancholy tunes...
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Transatlantique by Tarrent Bailey Junior
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A couple of Christmas tunes...
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"I should just like to join in the general delight in seeing you again, Liz!
In addition to the rallies BMG summer school is still going. This year its 13th to 15th June at Halsway Manor. Danielle is the teacher. Would be awesome to see you…"
""By using the Plectrum one can play on the Banjo most of the music written for the Violin, Mandolin or Piano."Piano seems a bit optimistic!"
"Joel is of course right about the "Shakey's Pizza" plectrum style. We didn't have the pizza parlour tradition so much in the UK, or at east we didn't call it that but we had bands like Shep's Banjo Boys who were hugely…"
"It's certainly a fantastic method in my opinion. When I wanted to improve my reading a couple of years back I got my local copy shop to print and spiral bind the original and went through it and it works really well.
I didn't know he…"
"When I ran Aaron Jonah Lewis at the Nether Edge Folk Club a couple of years ago a few locally based classic players (including our Richard) turned up.
Jonah observed "there must be an actual percentage of the world's classic players…"
"Syncopatin' Shuffle is a great idea!"
"£11K! Gotta be some kind of money laundering thing I should think."
"A good tune to drop in is Blaze Away which was at least arranged by Grimshaw.
It used to be used as the theme tune to a Saturday morning kids cinema club so folks of a certain age will tend to break out in a big grin and sway along when they hear…"
"My take on this is that if I'm playing the tune out to a general audience I just change the title.
There's a long tradition of this - Morleytown and so on. If I play A Darkie Chuckle at a gig or folk club I call it "Joe's…"
"This funeral March should be performed tempo grave I think"
"It's a funeral March. Interesting."
"This march seems dramatic and a bit melodramatic too but it doesn't make me feel sad. It is sombre, subdued, formal. More like grief repressed than expressed. Good banjo tune though! I like the hornpipe as well."
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A Joe Morley Pilgrimage
I took advantage of a trip to a client in South London today to pay a visit to Joe Morley's grave.
I've written it up in a post on my blog at Walthamstow Folk Club - http://www.walthamstowfolk.co.uk/blog/?p=206
The accompanying text is probably of limited interest to you specialist expert types here but thought I'd share it anyway!…
I've written it up in a post on my blog at Walthamstow Folk Club - http://www.walthamstowfolk.co.uk/blog/?p=206
The accompanying text is probably of limited interest to you specialist expert types here but thought I'd share it anyway!…
Posted on September 29, 2009 at 18:07 — 1 Comment
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- At 19:58 on September 7, 2014,
Hal Allert said…
Thanks for considering me your friend, Russ.
- At 13:39 on February 26, 2023,
Jake Glanville said…
I wonder if there is any truth in the family legend that my distant relative Alfred Peck Stevens aka Alfred Glanville Vance aka The Great Vance, played a William Temlett Snr. zither-banjo shortly before his death on stage at The Sun Music Hall in 1888?
Black Jake of Norwich.
- At 7:48 on February 28, 2023,
Richard William Ineson said…
Wikipedia : Vance suffered from heart disease, and died on 26 December 1888, at the age of about 49, while performing on the stage of the Sun Music Hall, Knightsbridge.[1][3] He is buried in Nunhead Cemetery, although his headstone no longer exists.
- At 15:32 on May 6, 2025,
Hello there, Russ. I am deeply touched by the all-round jubilation at my return to the banjo world after an absence of 11 years or so. Coincidentally, your name had crept to the top of my ‘to message’ list as a little bird told me that you would be at Halsway Manor this year – as indeed am I. Long story (which I can bore you with when we meet 🥱) but Sandra exercised her renowned powers of persuasion to lure me into joining the fun.
After such a long gap, getting back into it is challenging but I’m enjoying the journey; all of the music for our group is new to me so that’s proving an interesting exercise, but I understand that a couple of Danielle’s beginner-level students will be on the course so I won’t be completely alone. Whatever happens, it’ll be fun.
Looking forward to seeing you again x
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