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Old Time Appalachian Music |
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| Location: | North Antrim, |
| Country: |  Ireland |
| Last Login: | Sep 7, 2008 (464 days back) |
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| 'What is Old Time Music' by Mike Seeger: "After Native Americans, the first people to settle in this region came from the British Isles in the mid-1700's. These early settlers included Scots-Irish but were primarily English. A small number of immigrants later came to this area from Germany. ...... Communities were also nearly self sufficient culturally, and almost everyone could either sing, play an instrument, dance, or tell a story, usually in a style distinctly their own. English-language culture was dominant." // http://mikeseeger.info/html/whatis.html // .......... // The Early Settlers of Appalachia: "Many Ulster-Scots left the British Isles and came to America in the early 18th century. They came to Maryland and Pennsylvania but found the lands along the Delaware and the Chesapeake taken by earlier settlers from England; therefore, they moved west following the Great Appalachian Valley, moving southward into the piedmont and mountains of Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee.These early settlers were descendents of hardy Scots who had survived many years of struggle against invaders who, time after time, had pushed them back into the hill country of Scotland but had never conquered them. Over the centuries of struggles they became great warriors with more of a love of liberty than life. Forced to live in the mountainous lands of the Scotland, they were sustained only through hard work and frugal living." DLEnnis // .......... // ‘Appalachian Celts And Their Music’ by Charles H Ball: "When the Celtic people settled the Appalachian region they had their hands full: Indians, bears, wilderness, weather, topography ..........you name it. They were not inclined to worry much about their roots, except the ones they planted in the ground. All they knew was that they had escaped tyranny, poverty, and oppression of one kind or another and were now planted in a new world, a world they had yet to conquer. And this conquest would be a full-time job. Today, three centuries later, most of their descendants have no sense of being Irish, or Scots-Irish, or Welsh, or Scottish." // http://www.leyline.org/cra/articles/app_celts_music.html // .......... // 'Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier' by Alan Jabbour "I had supposed that the repertory and style in the Upper South were originally 'British', and then by new composition and gradual stylistic evolution became more regionally distinctive. But as the other elements of my original model were eroded, I began to contemplate the possibility that the Southern fiddling style I was documenting in the 20th century took shape much earlier than I had originally imagined. In particular, I reflected on the bowing patterns I had been laboriously transcribing from my fiddling mentors. Many of them used bowing patterns in which were imbedded elaborate forms of syncopation. Now it should be stipulated that syncopation has many forms. Any performance that establishes one rhythmic pattern, then superimposes a different pattern in contradistinction to the original pattern, is using syncopation. But the syncopated bowing patterns of my fiddling mentors were precisely what we all think of as “American syncopation,” appearing in jazz and popular music and commonly presumed to be an African American contribution to our musical heritage." // http://www.alanjabbour.com/fiddle_tunes_old_frontier.html // .......... // "Old-time (oldtimey) Music What is it? "The early days of old-time music are unfortunately not well-documented, and there are various theories of how it started and spread. This first one I got from Bob Flesher. White minstrels popularized the banjo in urban centers before the Civil War. The banjo went back to the mountains with veterans from that war. When people began to play banjos and fiddles together, fiddle playing changed. After reading Conway's African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia, I would lean toward another theory. Conway gives persuasive evidence that black banjo players taught both minstrels and white mountain musicians to play the banjo directly. Just one of her arguments is that there are lots of common tunings between earlier black banjoists and mountain banjoists that weren't used by minstrels." // http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/whatisoldtime/old-time-mus
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Music:Member Since: 6/12/2006Band Website: oldtimehammer.proboards76.com/index.cgi Band Members: Dick Glasgow (Ptarmigan): Visit my Old Time Music Forum (Europe) at: http://oldtimehammer.proboards76.com/index.cgi Get Your Own! | View Slideshow Influences: Like most folks here, I suspect, I was already playing other music when I was aware I heard my first Old Time Music. Of course I really have no idea when I first heard Old Time Music proper, because when I first heard it, I probably didn't even know it was called Old Time. Anyway, in the late 1970s I was living in Aberdeen, Scotland & in that town was a 5 String Banjo player who, living in splendid isolation, played the sweetest Old Time Banjo tunes & he used to come & play at the local Folk Clubs & sometimes even appear at a Pub Session. Naturally I heard lots of Irish & Scottish tune flavours coming through that hypnotic clawhammer sound, but it was so very different at the same time. However, I was struggling with the hard process of trying to learn how to play Irish music on the Fiddle & that time & the last thing I needed was a distraction like retuning the fiddle for Old Time tunes & bow patterns. The next time I came across this music was listening to Cork group 'Any Old Time', then about 6 or 7 years ago, when I booked the Foghorn Stringband for the wee Folk Club I was running locally, here in North Antrim. Well, as you can imagine those guys just blew me away & I didn't rest until I got my hands on my first Hammered Dulcimer. They really were the big event which convinced me that I just had to learn how to play this music. However, since then, I have been introduced to loads of great music by Fred Keller & others at the wonderful 'Sugar in the Gourd' site. So, in no particular order, hats off to all these guys for some wonderful music: Beverly Smith & Carl Jones, Bob Carlin & John Hartford, Dave Douglass, Hubie King & Diane Jones, Bruce Molsky, Rayna Gellert, Reeltime Travellers, Bob Bovee, J P Fraley, Hilarie Burhans, Walt Koken, Hank Schwartz, Wayne Erbsen, R D Launceford & Carl Baron, Christie Burns & Butch Ross, & other great musicians like Tommy Jarrell, Clarence Ashley & Doc Watson, but a special thanks to The Foghorn Stringband. Of course, I just know I am going to be able to add lots of new names to that list, once I get time to go round & listen to all the great music on the sites here of my 'new friends'. "Sugar in the Gourd": http://sugarinthegourd.com/ ..... "EverythingDulcimer": http://www.everythingdulcimer.com/ ..... "Banjo Hangout": http://www.banjohangout.org/forum/ ..... "thesession": http://www.thesession.org/ ..... "Irish Arms": http://www.irisharms.ie ... Record Label: Causeway Music Type of Label: None |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Folk / Acoustic / Bluegrass) |
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