Each year at Remembrance Day I think of the stories my father used to tell me about him and his buddy Freddie as rapscallion kids, and what happened to each of them during the Second World War. I’ve told many people at least parts of… Read More
The 27th Street Book Box has been stuffed full of books the last few days. There are some excellent selections. If you’re in Long Branch and you want a good book to read, stop by. You can take some books – to borrow or keep.… Read More
I think we all need something to get our minds off the American election. I haven’t shared much button accordion music lately, so I’d like to remedy that today. Here’s the excellent Acadian player Roger Lanteigne tearing it up. Might fine, mighty fine. I believe… Read More
Here’s Buddy Durham performing his Durham’s Bull. I’ve been working on playing this one on the banjo….still not where I want to be with it though. Practice, practice, practice.
At the front of our house there is a screen door and a wood door. This afternoon I had the wood door open and the window in the screen door open to get some fresh air in the house, since it was such a beautiful… Read More
I learned this tune from Bob Carlin at Midwest Banjo Camp back in June. It seems a lot of clawhammer players who play this one learned it from Bob, either at one of his workshops or from his fine recording of the tune on Banging… Read More
This performance was shared by someone on one of the facebook banjo groups. I liked it a lot so I thought I’d share it here as well. It’s a mighty sad tune about coal mining by two women from Kentucky. Beautiful performance! Here’s a link… Read More
I’ve been making some new work in the studio – let’s call them constructions. Some of you may have seen this one the other day. Here’s another – this one is small, just about 10″ wide. It’s way to early for me to talk about… Read More
From the shameless self-promotion department: For those who have missed it, I’ve published a group of stories (15 and counting) in serial format at a blog site, eugeneknapikstories.com. These are short-short fiction under the title The Lazy Allen Stories. They are set in 1982 in… Read More
Here by the shores of Lake Ontario, it might be argued there are 2 seasons, not 4, defined by two weekends each year – the weekend they pull all the sailboats from the yacht club in Sam Smith Park – and the weekend they put… Read More
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