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Bill Evans: The Banjo In America

Published by Brance on March 24th, 2008
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I produced a series of video clips for banjo player Bill Evans recently. The clips aren’t instructional in nature, they are simple performance pieces. But Bill’s not necessarily playing the banjo in each one.

Bill has been conducting a tour for some time now called The Banjo in America. During the course of a concert on this tour, Bill plays a variety of different instruments which are historical predecessors to the modern 5-string banjo.

For more information about The Banjo in America, read this blog post I published over at The Bluegrass Blog.

Here is one of the clips. In this one, Bill is playing an African Akonting. Pretty cool sound!

 

Be sure to visit Bill’s YouTube channel to see the other videos. There are six in total, including two he plays on his 1937 Gibson flathead -75.


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