Love my new banjo

Really enjoying my new Deering banjo. It came in just in time for us to record four tunes with it on our new CD, Banjo Dreamin' Suwannee Nights, which hopefully will be out soon.

Podcast of gut strung banjo

Kattywompus String Band has put up a Podcast page with several podcasts on it. How to play the guitar, how to record a CD at home, interviews with bands, and a banjo video of me playing "Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground." This is one of the tunes on the new CD which is coming very soon. Photo is Ellen's grandson.
http://kattywompusfolkstudio.libsyn.com/

Banjo CD news and family updates

The new banjo CD is getting close. Sent the corrections on the art proofs back yesterday, and Disc Masters is going to do some final post production before they press them. :)

Arcy (in photo above) just had some of his research photos (under the microscope) published in the New York Times (It is listed as Robert Sidney Cox III from CalTech) He's in Calgary right now doing more research on his doctoral thesis)
Natalie is leaving the Blue Chicks dance team (she's been on the team 3 years) and will be dancing for a competition team in Daytona.
Gordon will be home and visiting Tallahassee for a week on February 5.

New banjo CD getting closer

Hello,
We sent the master off yesterday and are hoping to have it back sometime in February. Today is a tabbing day. It's a three day weekend, so hope to get a least a few done for the new tab book.
Got to go and get busy.
:) Mary Z.

ps. This is a photo of John H. Hopkins Jr. (He wrote We Three Kings in the 19th century). We have recorded a new banjo version on the new CD. :)

New banjo CD coming soon

Won't know exact tunes till the very end--but there will be some good tunes on a gut string banjo and also the new White Shell Laydie will play a couple new versions of old favorites.
It's going to sound like drifting down an old Florida River. :) Very easy to the ear.

Banjo Web page update

Hi!
Just finished updating my banjo website for the new year. We have been working constantly on the new CD. Still more to do--but it is getting close. :)
Postage for priority mail goes up on January 8, 2006--so if you were thinking about ordering a banjo CD or tab book--I'll send out at the old rates until January 7th. :)
Peace, joy and love to you in the new year,
Mary Z.

White Shell Laydie

Lets try this link to the new banjo and see if it works

http://www.maryzcox.com/02 kings.wma

Guitar Bob holds banjo

Here's Bob holding my new banjo. :)

Suwannee Old Time Music Camp

December 2005

Merry Christmas and Holiday Greetings

Florida Holly

Here is Fishheadsaid with his lovely wife, Mary Ellen, playing a gourd banjo, drinking margarita, posting to Banjohangout, and rooting for the wrong team in the FSU vs Fla game. :) 

Day after Thanksgiving banjo

Here it is the day after Thanksgiving. Still honeymooning with my new banjo. :) Don't forget the Old Time Music Camp at White Springs the first weekend of December. There will be fiddle/guitar/singing there as well as banjo. Contact the Stephen Foster State Park in White Springs Florida for more information.

Christmas is coming! If you already have my CDs and books and enjoy them, please think about giving copies to your friends that enjoy banjo and oldtime music. Most Dad's would much rather have them than a new tie. :) www.maryzcox.com

White Shell Laydie banjo at the beach

We camped the weekend at St Andrews State Park in Panama City. Our campsite was right on the lagoon. This is a very pretty park and the weather was perfect.

Its here and we've been picking this evening. 

the new banjo sounds warm and rich and very nice mid range tones. I really love the voice of this banjo. It is even prettier up close than in the photo. 

Its on the way! New banjo supposed to arrive any minute!

Here's a photos of Ernie Williams with his banjo picking hat.

New Banjo photos

More inlay close ups on new banjo

It's supposed to be mailed sometime next week!

Another inlay on the White Shell Laydie banjo