All Videos Tagged dancing (Minstrel Banjo) - Minstrel Banjo2024-05-02T12:12:45Zhttps://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/video/video/listTagged?tag=dancing&rss=yes&xn_auth=noFroggie the limberjack dancing to Do Mr. Boker Do, on banjotag:minstrelbanjo.ning.com,2012-10-20:2477478:Video:755572012-10-20T20:03:19.011ZStrumeliahttps://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/Strumelia
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</a> <br></br>This is Froggie the limberjack (also known as a jig doll). Froggie used to be plain unfinished wood, but I painted him to give him more personality. I imagine he is now fit to go courtin' Miss Mousie. Children love how Froggie's googly eyes spin round and round!<br></br>
Here I make him dance to an old minstrel song that I'm playing on my banjo, called…
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</a><br />This is Froggie the limberjack (also known as a jig doll). Froggie used to be plain unfinished wood, but I painted him to give him more personality. I imagine he is now fit to go courtin' Miss Mousie. Children love how Froggie's googly eyes spin round and round!<br />
Here I make him dance to an old minstrel song that I'm playing on my banjo, called Do Mr. Boker Do. I speeded the recording up a little to make it more a lively dance tempo (I can't play it quite this fast yet, sorry!) I got the song from Phil Rice's banjo tutor book of 1858, playing it here as an instrumental. There are few things in music more fun than a dancing limber jack! Clog Dances from 1883 for Banjotag:minstrelbanjo.ning.com,2012-04-24:2477478:Video:662862012-04-24T16:36:45.752ZRob MacKillophttps://minstrelbanjo.ning.com/profile/RobMacKillop
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