North Carolina School of Traditional Music

06/21/2024

07/04/2023

08/18/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNDMNGFLzXU

I did this with my teacher, Mark Weems. https://www.youtube.com/user/markweems1

08/02/2022

08/02/2022

12/12/2021

https://www.facebook.com/1374246198/videos/1858610654331675/

07/09/2021

Cover of one of my favorite Jimmie Rodgers songs. Don't know why it is out of sync.

05/14/2021

Composed on the 4 string gourd in honour of my dad on his 82nd birthday.

02/28/2021

Frank Lee was a big influence on me wanting to play banjo.

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10/26/2020

Ryan Navey of Carolina Banjo Co. just released a new model of mountain banjos that sound and look great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezgg1Zq8RJs

played on a new mountain style banjo. steel strings. https://www.carolinabanjoco.com/

10/21/2020

Mississippi drum and cane flute tradition. Love it!

09/05/2020

https://vimeo.com/376467798

Created for a school project on the preservation of folk music in North Carolina. The rest of the story can be found at andrewdundas.com Featuring Mark Weems of…

07/19/2020

Students Bradsher and Jesse Wilkins with their Carolina Banjo's!

07/19/2020

https://www.facebook.com/james.pentecost.161/videos/2833805966836247/

06/20/2020

First song I've written in years. Who knows where these things come from.

06/13/2020

I acquired this sheet music a few years ago. It is found only in a few libraries and has never been digitized online. It comes from the Spring of 1843 when T...

06/05/2020

Felt like some Lefty!

A little vocal tribute to one of the best honky-tonk stylists ever.

06/04/2020

05/27/2020

First printed in 1837 as a quadrille, this version comes from Elias Howe's Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1848).

05/16/2020

My reworking of an old blues song I first heard sung by Dillard Chandler, North Carolina ballad singer extraordinaire.

05/09/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDxXbhRp6Y0

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