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From Phil Rice's Banjo Instructor, 1858.

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Comment by Strumelia on August 2, 2012 at 12:36pm

He'll have his Boucher too.  We can all take turns and play tambo or bones to the other's banjos!

Comment by Paul Draper on August 2, 2012 at 12:39pm

Perhaps Andy Chase would join us, as well as other New Englanders...

Comment by Andy Chase on August 2, 2012 at 1:06pm

Are there dates for Black Creek yet next year?  It would be good to have an excuse to work on my nascent bones skills... and banjo of course.

Comment by Paul Draper on August 2, 2012 at 1:23pm

It usually falls around Memorial Day.

Comment by Strumelia on August 2, 2012 at 1:24pm

Black Creek Fiddlers' Reunion is always held during Memorial Day weekend, in Altamont, NY.

http://www.oldsongs.org/blackcreek/index.shtml

pix from this year: http://www.oldsongs.org/blackcreek/2012/2012.html

It's a campout gathering for old-time musicians, but minstrel players are certainly welcome!  (who put the old in old time after all?)

Paul Draper and I had a little mini-session at Brian and my campsite with our two gourd banjos in May...it was fun!   I played clawhammer cause i hadn't even attempted Juba yet, but Paul played me a couple of nice minstrel tunes as well.   I had my bones packed (can't play them much yet) and my tambourine (just learning that right now too).  But next year i hope to have a few minstrel tunes under my belt, and my Bell 'Henry Stichter' banjo.

There's plenty of room at the fairgrounds and folks are very friendly, so it might indeed be a fun place to have a little group playing minstrel yummies at some campsite.    :)

I'll be teaching a clawhammer 'beginning modal tunes' workshop next year.

Comment by Andy Chase on August 2, 2012 at 1:27pm

I could certainly stand to brush up on my clawhammer playing too.  Black Creek has been on my radar for a while, but I've never made it... Paul and I were talking at AEBG V about how awkward festivals can be if you don't already know someone there, but now I do!

 

Comment by Strumelia on August 2, 2012 at 1:45pm

I would really enjoy having some 'minstrel buddies' there !

Comment by Strumelia on August 2, 2012 at 6:15pm

If we get more Ning Minstrelitia than just Paul and me next year, I'll even make a special batch of dark chocolate brownies  just for us!    

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