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Stephen Wade's Innovative and Surprising Banjo
Diary Now Available
Stephen Wade's new album Banjo Diary: Lessons from Tradition,
coinciding with the publication of his new book, The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings
and the American Experience, is now available in CD
and digital download formats.
Banjo Diary: Lessons from Tradition
explores knowledge older musicians have bequeathed to younger players.
Inspired by past banjo masters of frailing and of two- and three-finger
styles, Stephen Wade, accompanied by Mike Craver, Russ Hooper, Danny
Knicely, James Leva, and Zan McLeod, mines new creative possibilities
with pump organ, piano, mandolin, fiddle, guitar, Dobro, washboard,
rhumba box, and bass.
Upcoming events:
? Saturday, September 22: Book signing at the Politics & Prose Bookstore
in Washington, D.C
? Thursday, September 27: Headlining concert at the Birchmere
in Alexandria, Virginia
Click here for additional events.
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Banjo Diary:
Lessons from Tradition
Stephen Wade
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Sneak Preview: Blue Clouds by Elizabeth
Mitchell and You Are My Flower (available October 22)
Over the course of six
albums in nearly 15 years, Elizabeth Mitchell has invited
listeners to join her, husband Daniel Littleton, their daughter Storey,
and other friends and relatives to become part of an extended musical
family. On Blue Clouds (out October 22), she raises her
special kind of family-centric music to new heights by bringing clarity
and beauty to a surprising range of songs.
Sneak Preview - Listen to Selections from Blue
Clouds
Elizabeth Mitchell and
You Are My Flower are performing upcoming concerts in New York City (2
shows), Olivebridge, New York, Chicago, Illinois, San Francisco,
California, Seattle, Washington, Portland, Oregon, Portland, Maine, and
Atlanta, Georgia (2 shows). Click here for full details.
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New Videos from Elizabeth Mitchell and
Quetzal
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 "Shoo Lie Loo" by Elizabeth Mitchell from
Sunny Day
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 Quetzal Performs "Estoy Aqui" from Imaginaries at the 2012 Smithsonian
Folklife Festival
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Smithsonian Folkways Trivia!
Each month we'll ask a
trivia question; e-mail your answer, name, and address with the
subject "September Trivia" to SmithsonianFolkways_at_si_dot_edu by
September 30, and a randomly selected entrant with the correct answer
will win a free CD of his or her choice!
September Question: What folk song has been recorded by countless
artists (including Clarence Ashley, Ella Jenkins, Taj Mahal, The Everly
Brothers, Pentangle, Jean Ritchie, Tom Rush, Hobart Smith, Doc Watson,
and, most recently, Stephen Wade on Banjo Diary), perhaps because its
deceptive simplicity allows it to "take flight" via creative
interpretation?
Congratulations to last
month's winner, Shannon from Shepherdstown, West Virginia, who correctly answered "El Paso, written by Marty Robbins
and fight song for the University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)" to the
question: "What borderland murder ballad, recorded instrumentally by Los
Texmaniacs on Texas Towns & Tex-Mex Sounds, has also been
covered by The Grateful Dead and became a university fight song?"
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Smithsonian Folkways is a nonprofit endeavor, and CD and digital download
purchases sustain both the mission and the music. Liner notes are available
as free downloads. Thank you for your support.
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