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Who is in Why Old Time?
Below is a list of some of the folks we have interviewed or have lined up for filming during the Spring and Summer of 2008. We invite you to contact us if you would like to be interviewed at a festival or elsewhere, or if you have good story lead. THIS PAGE IS ALWAYS UNDER CONSTRUCTION, SO CHECK BACK!
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FOUR TIME GRAMMY WINNER, DAVID HOLT
May 9th 2008.
It’s official, Why Old Time? is now in production. Our first interview we did was with Grammy winner, David Holt. David was on his way from Asheville NC to Charlottesville VA to play with Doc Watson and he graciously made a pit stop in Blacksburg, VA just to speak with us. David had a great insight on old time music and it’s growth. We were glad to have him on board.
Photo courtesy of www.davidholt.com
Four-time Grammy Award winner David Holt is a musician, storyteller, historian, television host and entertainer, is dedicated to performing and preserving traditional American music and stories. Holt plays ten acoustic instruments and has released numerous recordings of traditional mountain music and southern folktales.
In 2002, Doc Watson and David won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Recording for Legacy, a three CD collection of songs and stories reflecting Doc Watson's inspiring life story. Doc and David are currently touring together across the United States. Visit the Legacy web site for more information: www.docwatsonanddavidholt.com
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The following people have committed to the documentary but have not yet been interviewed.
MIKE SEEGER OF THE NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS
Mike Seeger has devoted his life to singing and playing Music from True Vine - the home music made by American southerners before the media age. Music from True Vine grows out of hundreds of years of British traditions that blended in our country with equally ancient African traditions to produce songs and sounds which are unique to the United States. For the peoples of the rural South, their great variety of music, song, and story provided their Shakespeare, their dance music, their news, and the fabric of their daily lives. This music in time became the roots of today's country, bluegrass, and popular music and remains as ever, enduring and refreshing listening.
As a founding member of the pioneering traditional music group, The New Lost City Ramblers, Mike played an integral role in helping to revive interest in a variety of traditional music, now played by thousands of young musicians across the country. Since his first recordings with the Ramblers, in the late nineteen fifties, Mike has gone on to record more than forty albums, both solo and with others.
BILL HICKS OF THE ORIGINAL RED CLAY RAMBLERS
From: http://originalredclayramblers.com
The Red Clay Ramblers began in 1972 as a trio of musicians who had been playing in and around Chapel Hill, N.C. The original lineup included Tommy Thompson, Jim Watson, and Bill Hicks, with Mike Craver joining in 1973. The fifth "original," Jack Herrick, the only link to the current Red Clay Ramblers, joined in 1976.
Bill and Libby Hicks started playing music together in 1982--Bill on fiddle, Libby on guitar. They married in 1984, and spent the next ten years or so raising their daughter, Anna, who turned 25 back in September, '04. Through the years they helped form several string bands, and in the late '90s, while they were residing on Ocracoke Island, NC, they began to develop a duet "show" as well as being members of the cajun/zydeco band Unknown Tongues, which is based in Gloucester, NC, across the Pamlico Sound from Ocracoke. The duet show developed in the context of restaurant and club gigging and includes a wide range of vocal genres: the old "brother" duet singing of the Louvins and the Delmores, blues, rhythm and blues, western swing, and a number of their own originals which are almost uncategorizable but evolve out of their solid traditional roots.
MARK CAMPBELL
From: The Virginia Wesleyan Events PageMark Campbell is known as one of the finest old time fiddlers alive today and has won a number of prestigious fiddling contests, including first place in the Virginia State Fair fiddling competition and at the Appalachian String Band Festival competition in Clifftop, West Virginia. He recently released a CD titled "Deep Roots: Solo Fiddle Tunes from West Virginia, Eastern Kentucky and Western North Carolina."
From CD Baby: Mark Campbell is an exceptional fiddler - some say the sound he gets out of his fiddle seems like it came from 100 years ago. That's because Mark's music isn't rigidly copied from the old recordings, it's spontaneous and fresh and reflects Mark's laid back style - if you could call such energetic fiddling laid back! The selection of tunes is sure to please fiddle purists and old-time fans alike.
THE REED ISLAND ROUNDERS
From: http://www.reedisland.com/RIR/bios.htm
The Reed Island Rounders have been playing together since 1993, when Betty & Billy formed a band to compete at local fiddlers’ conventions. They have been joined by various banjoists over the years, and now Diane Jones has added her banjo and vocal talents to the band. They have found a mutual love for the Old-Time music of West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina and SW Virginia, where Betty & Billy make their home.
Diane Jones Billy Cornette
Betty Vornbrock
The Rounders perform regionally and even internationally for concerts, square dances, contradances, festivals and workshops, and for private engagements. In 1996, ‘99 & 2003 they performed and taught workshops for the “Friends of Appalachian Old Time Music and Dance ” festival, in Gainsborough, England, as well as a tour of concerts and pub gigs across Ireland. In 2004 the Rounders were honored to be included in the Chicago Folk Festival, and Shepherd College’s Appalachian Heritage Festival in West Virginia. The Blue Ridge Parkway Music Center often includes the Rounders in their lineup. The Rounders were proud to place fifth in the Traditional Band division in 2002 ’s Appalachian String Band Festival, ‘Clifftop ’, WV.
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THE NEW NORTH CAROLINA RAMBLERS
New North Carolina Ramblers Featuring Kinney Rorrer, Kirk Sutphin, Jeremy Stephens and Darren Moore. One of the great old time rural bands working today, "the band keeps the storied tradition of the great 1920s and 1930s string bands from southwestern Virginia and southeast West Virginia alive with 24 powerful and passionate performances. The music here has all the drive and excitement of their personal appearances: strong dance tunes featuring one or two fiddles, one or two banjos, guitars and autoharp; ballads of train wrecks and hard times in styles including Charlie Poole’s band and the Carter Family."
Quote from: http://www.oldbluerecords.com/releases.html
PRAIRIE BELT BOYS
From: http://www.myspace.com/prairiebeltboys
The Prairie Belt Boys. The PBBs are an oldtime four piece string band with some punk rock drive and oldtime rhythms. Imagine ’Gid Tanner and The Skillet Likkers’ crossed ’The Pogues’. Playing and performing traditional oldtime tunes fiddle & banjo tunes, originals, Irish folk rock, and any conglomeration of fun to music to watch and hear the band has carved out a growing bubble of fans in the oldtime community who consider them a musical train wreck that one cannot turn an eye or ear away.
THE RUN OF THE MILL STRING BAND
From www.runotmill.com:
We are Philadelphia's Run of the Mill String Band, an old-time southern Appalachian string band preserving and performing some of the best traditional American music you can find. Fiddle, banjo, guitar and upright bass comprise the usual configuration of the band, but sometimes we mix it up with two fiddles, fretless banjo, mandolin, banjo-mandolin, steel-guitar, banjo-guitar, and archtop guitar. We sing some, too. Regardless of configuration, we strive to maintain the tradition of the music, while at the same time, making it our own. Run of the Mill String Band is Palmer Loux, Greg Loux, Paul Sidlick and Tom Schaffer. We’ve been together for well over twenty years and we feel we’re still starting our stride. We're proud to be part of the greater Philadelphia old-time music scene.
Photo from
www.runotmill.com
MOUNTAIN FLING AND KATIE AND THE BUBBATONES
From: www.blueridgeautoharps.com/Performers
In our music, we try to entertain while exposing as many people as possible to our vibrant mountain culture. Since the early 1980s, we have been performing and leading workshops in our Appalachian Mountain region and beyond. We enjoy doing coffee houses, workshops and festivals, house concerts, after-dinner concerts, benefit concerts, community concerts, school programs, square and contradances, private parties, fiddler's conventions ... you name it.
PILOT MOUNTAIN BOBCATS
The Pilot Mountain Bobcats have been entertaining dancers and festival goers with their infectious brand of old time stringband music since 1989. The Bobcats include Nancy Sluys on fiddle, Jacki Spector on fretless banjo, Allin Cottrell on guitar and Bill Sluys on bass. Based in Surry County, North Carolina, the band has played for many regional and nationally known dance events, fiddlers conventions, festivals and concerts. Some of these include Augusta Dance Week and Old Time Week, Merlefest, Feet Retreat, the Eno Festival, Autumn Leaves Festival, Foot Mad, the Hometown Opry, the L.E.A.F Festival, Blue Ridge Music Center, Galax Leaf and Strings Festival and various square and contra dances. Frequenting the local fiddler's conventions, the Bobcats can usually be found jamming into the night in the campground and welcome all to join the fun! They have placed in the top five at Galax, Clifftop, Elk Creek, Fries and other fiddlers conventions.
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WOLF BROTHERS STRING BAND
From: http://www.geocities.com/wolfebrothers/
Although the WOLFE BROS. first formed during the mid 1970s, the group re-established their unique old time sound in the early 1990s. Featuring three vocalists, the band's repertoire ranges from rarely heard traditional songs and tunes to their own original material. Founding members Jerry Correll (fiddle) and Dale Morris (banjo, guitar) are joined by Casey Hash (guitar, accordion) and Donna Correll (bass). They all reside in the Grayson County, Virginia, community of Elk Creek. The band has recorded five projects and their most recent recording, Old Virginia Hills was released in April, 2007.
Photo from
http://www.geocities.com/wolfebrothers/
The Wolfe Bros. have been busy the last few years playing at many events such as the Carter Fold Festival, Merlefest, the Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival, the Wayne Henderson Festival, FloydFest, and the Barter Theater in Abingdon, Virginia. In addition, the group has opened shows for such acts as Mountain Heart and Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver. Bluegrass Unlimited featured an article about the Wolfe Bros. in their June '04 issue. (Click on NEWS for more info.) The band was featured during 2006 on The Song of the Mountains, a television series carried on many PBS stations across the country. They were also one of the bands chosen to represent the Crooked Road Music Trail in March 2007 at the Bristol, Tennessee NASCAR Race.
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