Staff Finale - Soldier's Joy (Midwest Banjo Camp 2013)

[@jimmymahone5420]

Now 70, I face a mountain of family photos begging to be digitized and titled. Perhaps thousands. In this splendid video, I already recognize Dave Para, his lovely late wife Cathy Barton, and Joe Newberry at the start. I may see more familiar faces seen performing live at Augusta Heritage Center and elsewhere. Some faces register while their names elude. This video's description begs for identifying its performers. All tune titles, too. Such would endow a greater gift on posterity.

[@guillaumelefranc7622]

Bonjour de France)(😄😁🥺🇳🇬🇨🇵🇲🇫👋🙏

[@DanGellert]

That was a fine time. So recent, but there's probably not a frame of video there that doesn't include at least one person who is now gone. Cherish the memories, and carpe diem.

[@darwinhansen5737]

Soldiers joy was the 1st fiddle I learned from my dad's 1st cousin. It always been my favorite when I played for square dances years ago. My other favorites were fire on the mountain and Heidens hornpipe

[@teaberrywmn]

Wow, my favorite bluegrass song over and over! I was once at a bluegrass festival in Beckley, WV and asked Bill Monroe to play this tune. He said "sure little lady." "Tater get on up here." Of course "Tater" Tate got us all dancing. Great memory.

[@Frailerpark]

Needs more banjo

[@shanedog007]

ROFL! All jokes aside, I think it was originally a fiddle tune, hence the popularity? Also I can't get over that old mans groove at 3:53, I was dancing in my seat at every note, it's like off dancing, it hit all the missing spaces!

[@stephenhenion8304]

What a Line Up.... even saw Tony Trishka in there.🎶🎵🎶

[@joelwells669]

Amazing.

[@BLOLite]

Nice swing to this, thanks guys. We also do this with Petronella, a Scots dance tune, dsuped up.

[@fractuss]

A good bit o' fun.

[@flautalee3090]

Very enjoyable ~ thank you!

[@margieskora8426]

I love Midwest Banjo Camp and all the fabulous people who attend, instruct and play their hearts out learning from these amazing masters!

[@timdalf]

Just wow. I'm really pleased to have stumbled upon this!

[@carriespilman4992]

You guys are Dandy

[@mbjsrl]

and Doc Watson's partner, Mr Jack Lawrence at 3:30, just before Bill Keith (RIP)

[@StringForJoy]

Jack is one of my favorite guitarists.

[@rafaelg4566]

Soldier's Joy is always fun to play...

[@threefiddlers]

I see Alan Jabbour on the fiddle, yay.

[@svetlanalukina5962]

Спасибо!!!

[@MrJbaker7]

Alan Munde, I love your playing and of course Bill Keith's and all the rest. The others sound great too. We both went to Oklahoma U in Norman about the same year....Jack Baker NYC p.s. I love the mixture of Old Time and Bluegrass...

[@PLINKER]

Love the old Gibson banjo with the mother of toilet seat finger board!

[@rickphilipps5056]

Is that Mac Benford from the Highwoods String band? I grew up on that band.

[@rafaelmatarritaperez1371]

Awesone

[@nodgelyobo1]

great fun

[@longbowbanjoAL]

made my day lol

[@bluegrassfan23]

Whew! That’s a lot of banjos in one set……

[@danielecuccu3949]

Yeahhhh

[@paul29671]

3:55 Bill Keith?

[@MadameM.]

Yep! kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHK6fpiMjqebgqs

[@markh9875]

That "Cathy" (sorry I am not so into the scene that I know this probably famous person) on the clawhammer's breakin' all the rules we tell beginners. Fingers all over the place. But it sounds great. Just goes to show, when you get good, you start to decide for yourself what works.

[@markh9875]

On the other hand, even though I am just a no-name amateur who isn't constantly going to festivals, doesn't recognize about half the people on stage and I even live on the wrong continent for this hobby, I have actually met two of the people on that stage and even got a one-hour lesson from one of them. It is a small world, this bluegrass and old-time thing. You don't have to do much to meet people at the top, not like rock or pop where you probably have to fight your way to the front row at a concert and scream to get two seconds of eye-contact from one of the stars.

[@writerrad]

That is Cathy Barton Para, who unfortunately passed away a year or two ago. As a high school student she and her husband David Para who is I think the first guitarist taking a break and Joe Neweberry who doesnt take a banjo break but is also teaching there but is one of the great banjo players around, they all became worked in the music store that Grandpa Jones had out in Missouri when they were teens. All three will tell you things they learned about life, and about picking the banjo and the guitar that they learned from Grandpa and his wife Ramona who was a great fiddler. Cathy was an expert in Grandpa's style which was very unconventional since grandpa was really a great guitar player who played banjo more as a stage prop. Cathy became () very quickly as a young woman one of the best frailing banjo players I have ever heard both in Nashville and the folk and old time circuit. There is some fascinating stuff here on KZbin frailing of her as young woman frailing back stage at the Opry or at the music parties that Grandpa and his wife used to throw. She was a great musician in both the most most proper forms of frailing, but could teach you the kind of easy way to do Grandpa evolved but such a warm and friendly person. I met her several times at the parallel Suwanee Banjo camp we have in Florida. She and her husband just seemed such nice people

[@writerrad]

@@markh9875 Yes I used to criticize these banjo camps, but I think the most important thing about them is the personal interaction, the gathering of the tribe as one person called them. I know almost everyone on the stage performing with a banjo and most of the othe rmusicians from going to the parallel Suwanee banjo camp every year since 2011 when I gave a presentation there. I played guitar since a teenager but didnt get into the old time banjo world until i was about 50, 20 years ago. It continues to astound me how open and friendly to anyone interested in the banjo even some of the most famous old time banjo players and bluegrass banjo players are even to me when i was completely knew and going about things in the exact wrong way. They are having a virtual banjo camp with many of the surviving people there www.suwanneebanjocamp.com/ check it out.

[@guywolff]

Thats a line up !

[@ep8470]

Who's from s.c. ?? I know or have played with some of u guys...with Randy Lucas

[@kowens1956]

Pay call in the British Army of 18th century.

[@friendlybanjoatheist5464]

We frailers should boycott solo breaks. Fun time, nonetheless, like a hall of fame of five-string banjo.

[@michaelgaley9532]

OH Yeah!! Every kind of picking, claw hammering and three fingering y'all don't get a blessing out of this your blesser may be broke.

[@JoeBanjo88]

I didnt know david grisman played clawhammer (-:

[@wlkerns]

David plays a great clawhammer style

[@elainerosefelder4986]

Hitlers dread, soldiers joy, what can i reckon about my state?

[@chriswilliams5930]

fiddles'n'frets'n'woodspoons impro variety styles f.a.b. chris williams anne frank project soundcloud