For enthusiasts of early banjo
Mark Weems's Videos (161)
The Power of Music
The Old Jonny Booker Band monkeying around with Phil Rice's version of The Power of Music (1858). Mark Weems Apr 14, 2014 392 views
A visit from Malian musician Cheick Hamala Diabate
Cheick Hamala visited me in my studio yesterday for a few tunes. A wonderful experience just watchi… Mark Weems Apr 10, 2014 65 views
Beethoven Banjo
A nice little piece by Beethoven played on my turn of the century spun-over using early banjo style… Mark Weems Mar 5, 2014 106 views
The Chicken Reel Goes To Mali
The old-time tune called Chicken Reel on my four string gourd played under the influence of listeni… Mark Weems Feb 23, 2014 130 views
De Old Jaw Bone
From Elias Howe's Banjo Preceptor (1848) Published by Henry Prentiss, Boston, 1840. Attributed to S… Mark Weems Feb 18, 2014 114 views
Life By The Galley Fire
The banjo part is from Elias Howe's Banjo Preceptor (1848). The lyrics are as sung by the Ethiopian… Mark Weems Feb 15, 2014 146 views
Alabama Joe
From Elias Howe's Banjo Preceptor (1848). The Key of Bb fits the banjo nicely in standard Minstrel… Mark Weems Feb 14, 2014 104 views
Old Tar River from the Banjo Preceptor
Elias Howe's (A.K.A. Gumbo Chaff) version of J.W. Sweeny's 1840 song found in his Banjo Preceptor o… Mark Weems Feb 13, 2014 138 views
Ginger's Wedding
Two different ways to play this piece. The first uses the thumb string as a melody note, the second… Mark Weems Feb 10, 2014 67 views
O! Susanna and the Four String Gourd Banjo
Mark Weems Feb 4, 2014 110 views
Old Plantation Girls
A Slip Jig (9/8 time) from Virginia. Mark Weems Jan 29, 2014 312 views
The Glendy Burk
The Old Jonny Booker Band plays Stephen Foster's big hit of 1860. Mark Weems Jan 16, 2014 138 views
Two 18th Century Jigs on a Gourd Banjo
Inspired by my recent trip to Colonial Williamsburg. "The New Negro" from the Perkins Manuscript (1… Mark Weems Jan 4, 2014 114 views
A Southside Christmas Frolic
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Jolly Old St Nicholas & The World Is Old Tonight
Little Windows (Mark Weems & Julee Glaub Weems) during a Christmas concert at Pleasant Green Un… Mark Weems Dec 20, 2013 82 views
Deck the Halls with a Banjo & Bodhran
Merry Christmas all! Mark Weems Dec 20, 2013 81 views
Dixie Land
From Dan Emmett's first published version of Dixie's Land, 1860. Also known as "I Wish I Was in Dix… Mark Weems Dec 17, 2013 344 views
Miss Lucy Long
Dan Gardner may have sung this song as early as 1836, although his brother-in-law, Billy Whitlock (… Mark Weems Dec 1, 2013 146 views
Old Joe
The Old Jonny Booker Band (Pentecost, Weems, Wesley, & Henderson) play on the porch of Pentecos… Mark Weems Nov 24, 2013 188 views
Jonny Boker
Sweeny's first published song. 1840 Mark Weems Nov 17, 2013 180 views
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