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- Favorite Flatpickers
- Steve Kaufman, Ron Block, Tony Rice, Rolly Brown, Allan Shadd, Carl Miner, Paige Anderson, Avril Smith, Lorrain Duisit, Kathy Barwick, Brad Davis, Robert Shafer, Tyler Grant, Bryan Kimsey ... and everybody else, too!
- Favorite Flatpicking Tunes
- Northern tunes, Southern tunes, Midwest tunes, Django tunes, Irish tunes, Scottish tunes, Canadian tunes, African tunes and Brazilian tunes, Carter Family, Hank Williams...etc.
- Favorite Guitars
- Martin "OOOO" MC3H, Martin size 5 "Terz"
- Tell us more about yourself (place a Bio here if you wish)
- Marcy has been a professional musician since sound systems were powered by coal. She has won and lost many awards and contests over the years.
Won: Multiple Grammys, 35 or so Washington Area Music Awards, The Kaufy Award, honored in the United States Congress, John Lennon Songwriting Contest, ...etc.
Lost: Multiple Grammys, Winfield, car keys ...etc.
Motto: "I know my career is progressing because bigger and bigger deals are falling through every day!"
Some people she has performed and recorded with: Pete Seeger, Mike Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Tom Paxton, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Eva Cassidy, Brave Combo, Mariachi Los Comparos, Tom Chapin, John McCutcheon, Patsy Montana, Ola Belle and Bud Reed, Roy Smeck, the Hoosier Hot Shots, Riders in the Sky, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Rabbi Mike Stein, you get the idea...
- Do you have a website?
- http://www.cathymarcy.com
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Great FGM DVD-Kilby, Davis and May
Hi Flatpickers,
I recently bought a DVD produced by Flatpicking Guitar Magazine called "Live In Kansas City-Cody Kilby, Brad Davis and Tim May. I rarely say anything like this but this DVD is a must have for every flatpicker. It's just fantastic! I watched it on an airplane with headphones and this DVD was so good I forgot where I was. I actually started clapping after one of the songs! Luckily the people sitting nearby chuckled.
I'm not kidding, it's that good! Everybody needs to buy… Continue
I recently bought a DVD produced by Flatpicking Guitar Magazine called "Live In Kansas City-Cody Kilby, Brad Davis and Tim May. I rarely say anything like this but this DVD is a must have for every flatpicker. It's just fantastic! I watched it on an airplane with headphones and this DVD was so good I forgot where I was. I actually started clapping after one of the songs! Luckily the people sitting nearby chuckled.
I'm not kidding, it's that good! Everybody needs to buy… Continue
Posted on November 15, 2008 at 9:30pm — 1 Comment
Old Time Tunes
Hi Pickers,
I've added a couple of videos of Old Time Tunes that work beautifully on guitar. I'm playing a 1918 Gibson 4 string Cello Banjo here and Cathy Fink is playing a Tubaphone 5 string. The Cello Banjo is experiencing a well deserved come back in the last year. When I put this clip up on youtube I was the only person playing it as a melody instrument. The only other player I could find was a guy in France who plays his as a bass. I had approached several companies to see if they… Continue
I've added a couple of videos of Old Time Tunes that work beautifully on guitar. I'm playing a 1918 Gibson 4 string Cello Banjo here and Cathy Fink is playing a Tubaphone 5 string. The Cello Banjo is experiencing a well deserved come back in the last year. When I put this clip up on youtube I was the only person playing it as a melody instrument. The only other player I could find was a guy in France who plays his as a bass. I had approached several companies to see if they… Continue
Posted on September 27, 2008 at 9:27am
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Tom Faux replied to Todd McFarland's discussion What brand do you play?"I recently came across a steel string parlor guitar made by P. Benson, in Minneapolis. It's really a nice little instrument--well built, comfortable, very much like an old Martin 00-18 (mahogany, slotted headstock, pyramid bridge, ladder…"
Marc Schlotthauer replied to Todd McFarland's discussion What brand do you play?"My gear is much better than my skill - for straight flatpickin', I play a Martin D-18 Authentic 1937. My go-to guitar for just about everything else (and it flatpicks just fine, thank you) is my Huss & Dalton D-RH with a Red Spruce top.…"
Derek commented on Derek's video
Ragtime Annie
"Hey Craig. Thanks for the kind comment. The credit for this version should really go To Steve Kaufman who's arrangement it is. Good luck with your bluegrass studies, it's wonderful music and great fun to play. I look forward to…"
Craig commented on Derek's videoRagtime Annie
"Derek: Mike above is teaching me blue grass and showed me this site. Fantastic rendition by you of this great song. Thanks for sharing. I'm off to Mike's to practice!!!!"
Clyde J.Ortego replied to Todd McFarland's discussion What brand do you play?"I play a Silvertone Acoustic from back in the Sixties."
Mike FlatPickingBuddy replied to Todd McFarland's discussion What brand do you play?"I have a Guild Bluegrass D40 made in the original factory at Hoboken that has been with me since 1964
I also have a Martin D18 made sometime around 1994 and a 1977 or earlier Yamaha FG336SB"
Derek commented on Derek's videoRagtime Annie
"Thanks Mike. I have to prove to myself that I can play the material as written but once I've done that I start to allow myself some leeway to have fun and drop in my own bits. There's not too much space to do that in SK's version of…"
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I'm a big fan of you and Cathy.
Yep, Jay and Molly are great!
Jay's music and DVD has really helped my fiddling.
Glad you are enjoying your new Park guitar.
Gus
Good to know that we are friends. I still listen to your Django introduction class with great glee.
Cheers from Portugal
James
How have you been?
Glad to see you on the network!
Do you think that you're going to make it out to IBMA this year? If so, I would love to pick a few tunes with you!
Hope all is well.
~Paige
I hope all is well with you and your family!
I wish we were going to IBMA this year! It's great that you'll be going. What are you playing these days? Any favorite tunes?
It would be great to see your family doing some gigs in the Washington DC area. You could do some great sight seeing, too. Have your parents email me off list if that's ever something they would like to pursue.
Things have been very good here. Have you heard about the cello banjo? There are some videos on youtube if you're interested. There is an amazing movement happening out there in traditional music land. To make a long story short, I got a Gibson cello banjo from 1915 (and it's wonderful). I put some cuts up on the internet and the thing really took off. There's a company making them now, I'm doing lots of interviews all over the world and people are starting to play them. It's really fun and the best part is that these instruments were almost lost. They're out in the world being played for the first time in almost 100 years!
Hope to See You Soon!
Marcy
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