Playing around with my tenor banjo #banjo #tenorbanjo #banjoplayer

Thank goodness The Mary Wallopers have a new video cuz basically all I've done all 2023 so far is watch them on Youtube. And a little bit of learning #TenorBanjo so I can play my favorite #ballads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZIV6AqiAh8

#MaryWallopers

As of today, I play the tenor banjo! Mastered Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and now hacking my way through the Kerry Polka.
#Bainseó #TenorBanjo #ceol

Was planning on learning Tatter Jack Walsh (jig) in the next few days, so wanted to hear it again to remind me how it went and found Gerry O'Connor and Gab Faure knocking it out of the park. Check out these variations! #irishtrad #tenorbanjo #fiddle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a14JxcbHAt0

@genheald #tenorbanjo yes!

#introductions

OK time to stop lurking, reading articles about WTF is Mastodon and just get on with it.

I work for a tech consultancy as an interaction designer. I spend way too much time gazing at a variety of screens so I go #running regularly to gaze at trees. Or I just gaze at my beautiful 10-year-old daughter or pick up my #tenorbanjo and annoy the neighbours.

I'm currently trying to up my game on a few fronts:

#inclusion
#a11y
#accessibility
#nocode
#webflow

Do please say hi!

So apparently I will be playing the #tenorbanjo somewhere at Nathan Phillips Square this Friday and Saturday evenings for the #Toronto #ChristmasMarket presumably with other players and I've been advised to dress warm, and that's all the info I have.
#livemusic #jazzintoronto #christmasmusic #chillthenserve #idontknowwhatsgoingtohappennextdoyou #maycontainhotjazz #playersmaycontainmulledwine #ididnttellyouthat #stopbyandsayhi

My musical interests include a fascination and emotional connection with #Irish #musico. The McGlones are part of the famine driven diaspora. #irishmusic has recently embraced the #tenorbanjo most notably played by its evangelist Barney McKenna. I am reading the well researched and written ‘Well of Souls’ by Kristina R Caddy. Fascinating history of the Banger/Bangeau / #banjo and it’s genesis amidst the appalling slave trade in humans stolen from their homelands for cynical plantation labour. ❤️

A tune of mine on tenor banjo

Glen Cottage

#tenorbanjo #trad #music

https://rankett.net/w/vfGNjGPwiLg5ccrV1Tqqsf

Spent good bit of time today working on a cover of a #Christmas tune that won't hold a candle to the original, but has been on my "gonna record that one of these days" pile for literally years.

I've been fooling around with #plectrumbanjo, #tenorbanjo, and #bandomandolin for various parts and I don't think any of them are going to work for this one, which is too bad as I've spent a lot of time getting some extended chord shapes under my fingers.

On the plus side, I seem to have developed an almost passable tremolo, which is a bit of a surprise; It's not something I've really actively worked on, but I guess several years of half-assed screwing around with it on and off has finally clicked.

Nice to get reacquainted with my #mandolin. The progression is usually "pick up the banjo-mando and plunk around and remember how incredibly loud, strident and utterly un-nuanced it sounds, then remember I have an actual mandolin that plays and sounds much nicer."