"I'm glad to see someone besides me getting good-sounding tremolo with something other than the index. My middle finger does it better."
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Abide With Me played tremolo style...
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Classic banjo in the Music Hall
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Baffling tremolo diagram
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"Great to hear duo and tremolo-style being played on 5string banjo - that was a highlight of the rally."
Abide With Me played tremolo style...
I've been working on getting the tremolo technique down.Not there yet, but I thought my rendition of Abide With Me at Clowne the other week was worth sharing.Comments and tips welcome!Thanks to Carrie for the video.See More
"Yes, there are inevitably are many banjo-playing musicians who left no identifiable footprint in the archives. That is somewhat inevitable when the focus of research is people who were not in the glare of the professional limelight. What we can…"
"Thanks Mike - I always keep a look on Ebay in case any interesting sheet music or other items turn up. There must be a lot of performers who played and sung with banjo who are lost to history."
"Fascinating to read about Madeline Rossiter, Carrie. Thank you."
"Russ, my (hopefully helpful) inclination would be to not predetermine the nature and parameters of your research. I'm not sure I understand a meaning for the 'role of classic banjo played in the music hall'? We can too easily go down…"
"Hi Carrie, we are slowly but surely gaining an increasingly nuanced and detailed understanding of the banjo shaped by it's diverse Victorian contexts and influences. Interesting that you widen that and mention the British Empire - we know that…"
"My copy of her cakewalk has a different title sheet.
https://archive.org/details/douglas-cake-walk-madeline-rossiter"
"Hi Mike - wouldn't it be great to have more of a documented history of the banjo in Britain (and the broader British Empire). As a banjo player, I feel we have a forgotten history and there is so much to learn about performers in music…"
"I would love to be able to provide an off-the-peg list of resources that will unlock the narrative of all aspects of the early English banjo or even just the banjo in a music hall setting. The hard fact is that no large cache of banjo primary…"
"In regard to resources the British Newspaper archive is a good starting point. Your follow-up sources will be very likely be prompted and dictated by initial print references.
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
With the usual reminder about…"
"The banjo appeared in this context from the very earliest cellar bars and tavern hall venues in the 1840's that were the precursors of the later music halls. It is quite a wide period, with many, many performers in all regions. Which dates and…"
"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…"
"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…"
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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,
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.
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