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Welcome, Music Folk!

Chances are you’re here because you enjoy hymns and you play (or would like to play!) some folk instrument, such as guitar, autoharp, banjo, bass, fiddle, mandolin, dulcimer, ukulele, etc. If so, you’ve come to the right place!

The purpose of this site is to provide you with with what you need to be successful in playing Christian music on your instrument. Currently we have the following resources:

Noten für Wheel Hoss bei Mandozine

Volksmusik aus Irland - hinüber genommen von irischen Auswanderern - gepflegt und erweitert in den Weiten von Amerika - mitbeeinflusst von den anderen europäischen Siedlern - geerdet durch den Blues der Schwarzen und schliesslich durch Geschwindigkeit salonfähig gemacht für die Städter: diese Musik nennt man Bluegrass. Sie wird auch oft als Volksmusik im 5.Gang bezeichnet und ist, zumindest in Europa, immer noch wenigen Leuten ein Begriff.



„Seagulls“ versucht im Verlauf eines Abends diese Metamorphosen zu gestalten: irische Tanzmelodien und Lieder, Oldtimestücke aus den Bergen, Cajunmelodien und Bluegrass werden dargeboten. Mit Mandoline und Fiddle sind typische Bluegrassinstrumente vertreten. Die irische Komponente wird mit der Bouzouki verstärkt.

Daley Mandolins
For over a decade Sim Daley has worked on some of the finest instruments for some of the finest musicians. The knowledge gained from working with such players as Adam Steffey, Dan Tyminski, Sam Bush, Ronnie McCoury, Roland White, Aubrey Haynie, not to mention considerable time spent studying the Loar period F-5's, led Sim to open his own shop and build the finest mandolin available today!

Adam Steffey

An East Tennessee native, he found a place in the Tennessee-Virginia border area’s thriving bluegrass scene in short order, serving early stints with the Lonesome River Band (Tyminski was his replacement there) and then helping to found the near legendary group, Dusty Miller, along with Bales and guitarist Tim Stafford. The three jumped to the big time together when Alison Krauss recruited them into Union Station, and for nearly seven years, Steffey lived the life of a high profile musician, as the band earned Grammy awards and IBMA trophies, toured extensively, made national TV appearances and recorded albums that reached far beyond the core bluegrass audience. Yet by 1998, the restless side of Steffey’s spirit made itself felt when he left the group and, after helping to lay plans for what would become Mountain Heart, joined bluegrass gospel favorites The Isaacs—a setting in which he played a different, though no less important role.

Here is FREE TABLATURE and FREE SHEET MUSIC for the Banjo, Guitar, Mandolin, Bass, Dobro, Fiddle! This has been a very popular page over the years and is always being updated. It is the official 'Archives'.

Band mit Jim VanCleve

Komponist des Stückes Smashville das Sierra Hull auf ihrer CD Secrets spielt

Zeichnungn, karrikaturen, Poster mit Thema Bluegrass etc.

livestream vom Telluride Festival???

Adam W. Carlos is a second-generation artist from Sewanee, Tennessee. He is a graduate of The University of the South where he earned a bachelors degree in the studio arts. He is proficient in the mediums of photography, painting, and sculpture, but drawing lifelike and detailed graphite portraiture is his specialty.

banjo blog

Welcome to the homepage of the World's oldest and largest Old Fiddlers' Convention. This website was designed to provide you with all the information you need to plan your trip to this year's convention.
since 1935!

The Kids on Bluegrass Program is a California Bluegrass Association activity that provides children between the ages of 3 to 18, the opportunity to join together at festivals to learn the various aspects and techniques of becoming a band and then performing on stage in front of a live audience.

Learn to play "Cattle In The Cane" by listening to it played slowly.
Click on the Photo to start downloading the fiddle mp3 file.

Cattle In The Cane (slow, to learn the melody): Cattle In The Cane (Slow-mp3)
Cattle In The Cane (full band): Cattle In The Cane (Band-mp3)

Compare the solo fiddle to the 1984 full band recording
by downloading both mp3 files.

View banjo tab by Bob Black at: Cattle Tabs

My source for this version of the melody is Kenny Baker.
He taught this to me in the winter of 1977.

The musicians are:
Jim Moss: Fiddle

Early in 1969 my wife, Marty, submitted an article to the
Indianapolis newspaper. Instead of using her story, they sent their own
reporter to verify her information and write his own piece on the subject.
Marty's was much better, I think, in terms of writing style and actual
bluegrass content; but their person did get interviews with local people
(maybe Silverspur Ragsdale & Birch) about some of the daily details. The piece is uncredited, probably because it was staff written.

They DID use our photographs, however. They were, likewise,
uncredited (and were not very well paid for!) She and I took them
at several different places over the preceding couple of years. The
lead picture of Monroe in glasses with his mandolin was taken at
Frontier Ranch, near Columbus, Ohio, around 1966. Jim and Jesse were performing at Bean Blossom in 1968. The picture with Baker off to the left and Bill, Vic & Roland singing in one mic was at Chatauqua Park, Franklin, Ohio, in 1967, and NOT at Bean Blossom in '68.
Baker and Mac were at BB '68. Some of these pictures have also appeared in Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine.

Frank Godbey

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with infos and photos about the first Bluegrass festival in 1965

The 1st Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival
July 6, 1974
Fall Creek • Black Canyon Gang • Denver Bluegrass Band

gute Noten und Playbacks zum Lernen des Lonesome Fiddle Blues:
The first two tunes I wanted to start with are Lonesome Fiddle Blues and Interstate Rag. With my private students, I always teach these tunes together or back to back.

At Petimar Press, you will find instruction books and CD's for fiddle and mandolin by Pete Martin, award-winning mandolinist and fiddler. Pete also teaches music lessons in several locations around the Seattle, Washington, area. Pete is conversant in Bluegrass, Old-time, Texas Style, Jazz and other styles as well as music theory.

aktuelle Mel Bay Mandolin Sessions

We've put together tabs of some of our favorite flatpicking tunes and list these here for your picking pleasure. We've tried to select a variety of tunes, both well-known ones and those that are not so well known.

Eine Liste mit 50 Bluegrass Standards - ideal als Einstieg geeignet! * Bluegrass was invented in the US, more or less, and is played around the world. Vocal harmonies lie at the heart of bluegrass, along with a core set of bluegrass fiddle tunes. The 50 tunes listed below will be known (mostly) by good bluegrass players everywhere. Learning them will take a long time.. but all the good players have put in a similar effort to build their repertoires. Tabs (and audio) for some of the tunes are at Harmonica Academy, other good resources are Steve Kaufman's 4 hour bluegrass workout at Homespun Tapes and Bluegrassguitar.com

One of the most popular standard songs in the bluegrass repertoire is "Bury Me Beneath the Willow." The willow is an ancient symbol of unrequited love. In the 19th century, weeping willows were often carved on headstones