Staff Finale - Soldier's Joy (Midwest Banjo Camp 2013) 

ROFL! All jokes aside, I think it was originally a fiddle tune, hence the popularity? Also I can't get over that old mans groove at 3:53, I was dancing in my seat at every note, it's like off dancing, it hit all the missing spaces!

I see Alan Jabbour on the fiddle, yay.

Спасибо!!!

Jack is one of my favorite guitarists.

On the other hand, even though I am just a no-name amateur who isn't constantly going to festivals, doesn't recognize about half the people on stage and I even live on the wrong continent for this hobby, I have actually met two of the people on that stage and even got a one-hour lesson from one of them. It is a small world, this bluegrass and old-time thing. You don't have to do much to meet people at the top, not like rock or pop where you probably have to fight your way to the front row at a concert and scream to get two seconds of eye-contact from one of the stars.

That is Cathy Barton Para, who unfortunately passed away a year or two ago. As a high school student she and her husband David Para who is I think the first guitarist taking a break and Joe Neweberry who doesnt take a banjo break but is also teaching there but is one of the great banjo players around, they all became worked in the music store that Grandpa Jones had out in Missouri when they were teens. All three will tell you things they learned about life, and about picking the banjo and the guitar that they learned from Grandpa and his wife Ramona who was a great fiddler. Cathy was an expert in Grandpa's style which was very unconventional since grandpa was really a great guitar player who played banjo more as a stage prop. Cathy became () very quickly as a young woman one of the best frailing banjo players I have ever heard both in Nashville and the folk and old time circuit. There is some fascinating stuff here on RU-vid frailing of her as young woman frailing back stage at the Opry or at the music parties that Grandpa and his wife used to throw. She was a great musician in both the most most proper forms of frailing, but could teach you the kind of easy way to do Grandpa evolved but such a warm and friendly person. I met her several times at the parallel Suwanee Banjo camp we have in Florida. She and her husband just seemed such nice people

@@markh9875 Yes I used to criticize these banjo camps, but I think the most important thing about them is the personal interaction, the gathering of the tribe as one person called them. I know almost everyone on the stage performing with a banjo and most of the othe rmusicians from going to the parallel Suwanee banjo camp every year since 2011 when I gave a presentation there. I played guitar since a teenager but didnt get into the old time banjo world until i was about 50, 20 years ago. It continues to astound me how open and friendly to anyone interested in the banjo even some of the most famous old time banjo players and bluegrass banjo players are even to me when i was completely knew and going about things in the exact wrong way. They are having a virtual banjo camp with many of the surviving people there www.suwanneebanjocamp.com/ check it out.

Yep! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZAWMeVYBhLI.html

David plays a great clawhammer style