In fact, for this session, Nicolay brought out both a banjo and an accordion.
Following signs marked with a banjo, I pass the evocatively-named Great Dismal Swamp, a national wildlife refuge.
Ms. BEV WESLY (Ukulele quartet member): I'm excited because I just ordered a banjo uke from eBay and it's just so exciting and here it is.
From this natural narrative flow, Balmorhea proves that a cello and a banjo are just as capable of expressing ideas and emotions as a group of words on a page.
Today we audition a sax, a tuba, and a banjo, but sax and banjo keep hogging the stage and tuba covers her ears as soon as we start to play.
"One day he brought (a banjo) to me and put it in my hand and said, 'Son, I want you to learn how to play this thing real well, " Watson told National Public Radio's Terry Gross in 1988.
Watson, whose mother sang around the house and whose father was a banjo player and vocalist who led the singing at their Baptist church, was a fingerstyle player who used a thumbpick for bass and a fingerpick for the treble strings -- a "two-finger" style that was self-taught.
The first thing one notices on the majority of the 171 tracks here is the way the band swings as a whole, whether in the syncopated two-beat of the 1929-30 sessions, which employ a banjo and tuba in the rhythm section, or in the more smoothed-out solid-four grooves of the band in the war years, propelled by guitar and bass in addition to Hines himself.
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Mr. Watson first learned to play a fretless banjo made by his father that was sheathed in cat's skin.
And, indeed, all it takes is a twist of a knob to go from a six-string Martin to a 12-string Guild or even a Gibson banjo.
Dr Mike Butera, the firm's founder, was keen to explain to us that this is intended not to replicate one specific device (though it does a great job of guitar, violin, banjo and more), but rather to enable musicians to be able to work in a way they want to.
The Lone Bellow has been on something of a run since releasing its self-titled debut album in January, distinguishing itself from the banjo-toting crowd in Brooklyn with a big sound that's drawing a lot of attention.
She is a Singer, songwriter, clawhammer banjo player, and recording artist who tours the world performing in both English and Chinese.
The song's lazy banjo and junkyard rhythms effectively paint a portrait of hot workdays in the sun and Hooverville-inspired landscapes.
Watson's mastery of flatpicking helped make the guitar a lead instrument in the 1950s and 1960s, when it was often considered a backup for the mandolin, fiddle or banjo.
He was already a seasoned local and regional performer, playing both old-time music and what he called "rockabilly and pop standards, " when the folk boom of the 1960s put him in front of a new set of audiences with his voice, banjo and acoustic guitar.
Before leaving for law school in China I jumped in my little red truck, threw my newly bought old-time banjo in the back, and went on a road trip through Appalachia to learn some old-time American music.
Blinded by an eye infection before his first birthday, he learned to play the banjo at the age of five before picking up a guitar in his early teens.
" They also continue to make traditional music sound fresh and exciting with their inventive arrangements, which give each musician a chance to show off some impressive skills: Check out the fiddle and banjo solos, performed by Brittany Haas and Gregory Liszt, respectively, in "The Golden Vanity.
"Remembrance, " for instance, begins with softly plucked notes on the guitar and slowly incorporates the banjo, strings section, and drums until all the instruments energetically meet in a climax before breaking back down into the song's quiet resolution.
Davison won't disclose how many people have signed up for Highlight to date, but our tests in London this week revealed a relatively thin pool of users. (For context, another fledgling rival, Banjo, hit 1 million users in April.) He appears to be some way off from the fabled "critical mass" at which a network becomes an attractive user destination.
And I see the power of music when I'm on stage in China: I start a Chinese song and the audience roars with delight that the blond, curly-haired girl with the banjo can sing their music.
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