Yesterday was delivery day for Basketeers. Basketeers is a volunteer organization providing some of the simple necessities and niceties of life, bundled in a basket and gifted to women transitioning out of a shelter to the next chapter in their lives. Tuffy P has been… Read More
Here’s Jack Antler again, this time performing Greasy Coat. This was at our local open mic last night at Fair Grounds Coffee – right here in Long Branch. Ted Myerscough on Guitar and me on clawhammer banjo.
Jack Antler played for the first time in front of an audience at our local open mic at Fair Grounds Coffee tonight. Here’s a video of one of the tunes we played, Cold Frosty Morning. It was an appropriate tune, given the cold temperatures we’ve… Read More
Today’s nature walk with Miles Hearn was at Scarborough Bluffs. It was a cold morning – I wore long johns and a warm coat as well as toque and mittens. As it turned out, the temperature rose a little during the walk and there was… Read More
Last month when I played some tunes at the Fair Grounds Open Mic here in Long Branch I met a fellow named Ted Myerscough. Ted responded to my clawhammer playing and told me he played some guitar, so I suggested we get together and jam… Read More
Here are Cathy Barton and Dave Para on the Paul Pepper radio show, performing Pap and Jenny, a song I’m familiar with from their 2010 Sweet Journeys album.
The Earl White Stringband on the Floyd Radio Show
That’s John Herrmann on banjo and vocals, Steve Rosen on guitar, Erynn Marshall on fiddle. Roy Andrade on the other fiddle. The bass player’s name is on the tip of my brain….Tom….? I didn’t make it to the 2018 Midwest Banjo Camp, but I hope… Read More
Yesterday I was convinced winter had arrived, but today is much more pleasant. Still cold, but not AS cold. For our Newfs, that means it’s party time again! We even saw a big fat robin…
Earlier I posted Mac Beattie’s Log Driver’s Song. Reg Hill played fiddle in Beattie’s Ottawa Valley Melodiers. Here he is doing a piece with a title on the same theme, The Timber Raft Jig.
27th Street 