A late survivor of the black string band tradition of the early 20th century was the trio of Carl Martin, Ted Bogan and Howard Armstrong. These three musicians from Virginia, South Carolina and Tennessee worked together, with the addition of one or more..
Topics: blues, Carl Martin, Howard Armstrong, Jethro Burns, Martin Bogan and Armstrong, Steve Goodman, string band music, Ted Bogan

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Jaco Pastorius is one of those names you hear brought up by musicians that might not be so well known to the wider world. He played bass with the band Weather Report and you have probably heard him in that context. He is one of the people that brought...
Topics: America the Beautiful, bass, Jaco Pastorius, jazz, pop, Weather Report

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This familiar song, which sold over six million copies for the Kingston Trio and is credited with starting the folk scare was derived from a song written in the nineteenth century by Thomas Land of, a resident of North Carolina. It is based on a...
Topics: banjo, Dom Dooley, folk, folk music, Kingston Trio, Tom Dula

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I am a great fan of the TED website, (http://www.ted.com/). TED is an annual gathering of smart people, like Al Gore and Bill Gates who give talks to each other about all the very cool things they are doing, each of which will change the world for the...
Topics: classical music, El Sistema, José Antonio Abreu, music education, music eduction

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Carol Moxley, who writes the blog Bass-ically Speaking turned me on to a book on music theory that is available in a free, downloadable and printable (if you want to use a whole ream of paper) PDF, Basic Music Theory by Jonathat Harnum. The e-book is...
Topics: Blondie Goes Latin, Janet Burston, Larry Simms, movies, music, music lessons, music theory, novelty song, novelty songs, piano

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