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Triple banjos on PHC
Here’s video of Bill Evans, Noam Pikelny and Joe Newberry’s triple banjo version of Arkansas Traveler from last Saturday’s edition of A Prairie Home Companion. There are some further audio clips from the show, including an Earl Scruggs medley, on the PHC web site.
Banjo… banjo… banjo on Prairie Home Companion
A Prairie Home Companion will on this week’s radio show be presenting three individually distinctive banjo players; Bill Evans, educator, composer and author; the progressive Noam Pikelny; and innovative old-time picker Joe Newberry. Also on the show are traditional county music singer Suzy Bogguss and [...]
NCBS Film Festival to screen The Porchlight Sessions
The Porchlight Sessions, produced by Nashville and Los Angeles documentary filmmaker Anna Schwaber, will be screened in Redwood City on Sunday, January 27, as part of a free afternoon bluegrass film program. The Northern California Bluegrass Society will present the NCBS International Bluegrass Music Museum [...]
Fundraiser for Joe Briggs
Joe Briggs is a bass player who has worked for many years in and around the acoustic, bluegrass and roots music scene along the east coast. He started out in Richmond, VA though he has made his home in Pittsburgh, PA for some time. In [...]
PopMatters – Best of Bluegrass 2012
It’s that time of year again, where pundits assess various aspects of the past 12 months. One of the first to do so and publish their list of favourites is PopMatters, the international magazine of cultural criticism. PopMatters’ bluegrass Top Ten listing includes a good [...]
Bluegrass for the Rockaways
California is about as far from New York as you can get in the US, but people there were as struck by the personal tragedies following Tropical Storm Sandy as were the rest of us who escaped unscathed. A group of California bluegrass artists have [...]
Bill Evans and the History of the Banjo
West coast banjoist extraordinaire Bill Evans shared this video he shot for the folks at The Fretboard Journal back in January of this year, which is only just now available online. In it, Bill offers a short history of our beloved five string banjo, presenting [...]
Kaleidoscope – Snap Jackson
Antonio Borrego III just doesn’t have the right ring for a bluegrass/old time performer, even in northern California. So the young man who developed a fascination with the music just six short years ago became Snap Jackson, and has released a second CD of original [...]
Blue Yodel #38 – Ask Mr. Blue Grass Smarty Pants
Guest Trivia Master – Bill Evans This month’s guest is banjo maven Bill Evans, who again received second-place in the Most Famous Bill Evans in the World contest at the People Named Bill Evans conference held annually in Evansville, Indiana. (There is some reason for [...]
Bill Evans on with Katy Daley
Bill Evans will be a guest on Wednesday morning’s Katy Daley Show on WAMU’s Bluegrass County. He’ll be on with Katy at 9:00 a.m. to talk about his appearance at the 5th Annual Mike Seeger Old Time Banjo Festival at The Birchmere this Saturday (7/14). [...]
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