Polly Put The Kettle On - Playing Fiddle & Clawhammer Banjo In Cavern!

The other day Eden & I had the great opportunity to record a video in the Blanchard Springs Cavern with our friends Matt Anderson of MillSounds Studio and Keith Symanowitz, who works at our local Ozark Folk Center here in Mountain View Arkansas. Occasionally the Chamber of Commerce here puts on a show in the Caverns, you can find details at www.yourplaceinthemountains.com
We felt Marcus Martin's Polly Put the Kettle On was a good fit for the scenery. Matt recorded us using an AEA Ribbon Mics and Preamps R88, we're very lucky to have such a great recording studio in Mountain View.

[@e.mathiaskaminiii3579]

Lovely! But holy hell I can’t imagine tuning up in there, but lord dying that sound and natural reverb/echo!

[@robertashley7751]

Beautiful ..worthy of carthy n swarby but I was waiting fo words 😂

[@danhayes1557]

Absolutely wonderful. By far and away, clearly the best fiddle and banjo combination played here that I've heard in a long, long time. Moving and powerful.

[@Pineyhunter]

Damn you two, that was really great.

[@michaelfogarty8504]

What a great space to play in! And as always, you both play together so well w so much good feeling - thank you!

[@nolenvlogs2697]

Stunner. Thankful for this one.

[@miker.9587]

Beautiful!

[@olofjansson9356]

Stunning!!!

[@X976V3T]

Hauntingly good !

[@brodoh1]

AWESOME! Thank you both.

[@nickymurray6753]

Absolutely sweet guys :)

[@nickymurray6753]

What tuning is this in ? :)

[@billfoley2626]

Wow, excellent job

[@kevinwilson3942]

Very good! Thanks!

[@53penthesilea]

awesome.... magnifique... ;)

[@batzic]

C'est quelque chose !

[@frankvandepitte1390]

imagine cromagnon people watching & listening :-)

[@lemuel4487]

What tuning is the banjo in? After hearing this I learned to play it in modal tuning but it just doesn't sound quite right.

[@e.mathiaskaminiii3579]

I’m also trying my damnedest in a 432 ADad tuning on the fiddle. You figure anything out?

[@lemuel4487]

@@e.mathiaskaminiii3579 I ended up working it out for banjo using D tuning; aDADE. But honestly, I never went through and tried copying him exactly.

[@rbdavisphoto]

A Bass player (up right) would have completed this, but wow