(pix by Lee Howell)The crab apples and azealas are blossoming in Tallahassee, and we have a few fun events coming in March and April. Many folks ask us, "when are you playing someplace near here?" Here are three events in or near Tallahassee. Hope you will come out and join us and have a good time.:)
There is a strong possibility that I may be toting my new 5 string cello banjo to some of these events--so if you have never heard one, this is a good chance to get up close for a listen and look. :)
Also, there are a couple openings in my "Be a Banjo Star" workshop at the John C. Campbell School in April. This will be the first time we've been in the springtime and we hear that it is really pretty then.
If you have been to this workshop before and would like to come again--please let me know and I'll work in some new tunes with the techniques for you. :)
New on Banjoquest!
(Field videos of banjoists, banjos, tunes, and banjos in locations you may or may not have seen or heard before. :)
I've added Ernie Williams, Tommy Bledsoe, and Mark Johnson and there will be more fine banjoists appearing on Banjoquest soon.
http://banjoquest.blogspot.com
Hope to see you soon. :)
Best wishes,
Mary Z. Cox
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Date: 3/7/2009
6:45 PM - 9:00 PM
Saturday, March 7th, 2009
Cracker Coffee House
Bob & I will be hosting the March 2009 Coffee House this year instead of February. March is Bob's birthday month--so we will be celebrating folks with March birthdays as well as St. Patrick's Day. :)
Sign up by 6:45 with Larry Hoover in the auditorium to play a tune.
White Springs FL 34432
This is great fun and would love to see you there. We've already heard that Mike and Ellen Sheppard, Jim Crozier, and Michael Vicky are going to be there too.
Contact Information:
Name: Larry Hoover
Location Information:
Stephen Foster Park auditorium
White Springs, FL
United States
Suwannee Valley Quilt & Old Time Craft Festival
Date: 3/14/2009
Mary Z. & Bob Cox - 2:00 PM
US Hwy 129 & Hwy 26
Trenton FL 32693
USA
Price: free
Suwannee Valley Quilt & Old Time Craft Festival
http://thingstodo.msn.com/trenton-fl/events/show/86118279-suwannee-valley-quilt-old-time-craft-festival Mary Z. & Bob Cox play banjo, dulcimer & guitar at 2:00 PM on the Old Railroad Depot stage--old time music and dancing in the afternnoon with Tom and Ellen Hogan & the Flying Turtles and the Hot Pepper Steppers :)
Contact Information:
Web site: http://thingstodo.msn.com/trenton-fl/events/show/86118279-suwannee-valley-quilt-old-time-craft-festi
Location Information:
Trenton, FL
United States
Tallahassee Community Friends of Old Time Dance
Date: 3/28/2009
7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Tallahassee Community Friends of Old Time Dance
Drumming On the Edge of Banjo with Mary Z. Cox & Yazid - 7:30-10:30 PM
Tallahassee FL
850-421-1559
Price: TBA
Two time Florida Banjo Champion, Mary Z. Cox, and African Caribbean drummer, Yazid, blend early Florida roots music in highly percussive rhythms for dancing and listening.
Yazid (William Johnson) is a professional drummer and percussion instructor that plays regularly with several performance and dance groups all over Florida. His musical background ranges from professor of ethnomusicology at Florida State University to drummer for Marvin Gaye.
Mary Z. Cox, banjo recording artist, plays banjo with her guitarist husband, Bob Cox, in concerts and workshops from coast to coast, and has also played for old time dances in Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina for many dance groups.
Mary Z. & Yazid are very pleased to introduce this new sound that draws from the not so diverse African/Caribbean and Southern banjo cultures. The banjo is, after all, a drum with strings.
Yazid and Mary Z. are currently recording a “Drumming On the Edge of Banjo” CD which will hopefully be available in 2009.
For more details:
Contact Mary Allgire at (850) 421-1559 or by sending e-mail to: maryallgire@yahoo.com
or mail to: TCFOOTD, P.O. Box 5992, Tallahassee, FL. 32314
Contact Information:
Name: Mary Allgire
Phone: 850- 421-1559
Location Information:
Tallahassee, FL
United States
Will Mclean Festival
Date: 4/3/2009
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Will Mclean Festival
Mary Z. & Bob Cox at Willfest
Dunnelon FL
April 3, 4, 5, 2009
More details arriving soon.
See festival website for latest information.
Contact Information:
Location Information:
Dunnelon, FL
United States
Be A Banjo Star: Banjo workshop with Mary Z. Cox
Date: 4/12/2009
Sunday, April 12th-17th 2009
John C. Campbell Folk School
Be A Banjo Star: Continuing Clawhammer Banjo
April 12-17 2009
Expand your repertoire of banjo tunes, while improving your technique and tone. We'll explore tunings beyond basic G, begin drop thumbing, and play together as a class to steady right hand rhythms and practice simple chordal back up.
This is going to be great fun--the food and facilites are awesome at Campbell--and it will be a week of fun and banjo!)
Contact John C. Campbell Folk School for free color catalog and registration.
Contact Information:
Web site: http://www.folkschool.org
Phone: 1-800-365-5724
Location Information:
One Folk School Road
Brasstown, NC 28902
United States
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