2020 Addison Street / Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 644-2020 / info@freightandsalvage.org
Old Time String Band Sounds & Styles w/ John Cohen, Craig Judelman, Eli Smith, & Walker Shepard
Saturday, February 26, 6:15-7:15 pm
Sign up for both this workshop and one of the 5:00 pm Old-Time workshops for only $40 at the Freight box office.
*You're welcome, but not required, to bring along your instrument to this workshop. Folk legend, musicologist, and filmmaker, John Cohen was a founding member of The New Lost City Ramblers, one of the most enduring and influential old time string bands that formed in New York City during the 1950s Folk Revival. One of the most important "discoverers" of traditional musicians and singers, John is also credited with finding and recording numerous old time musicians of Appalachia. Brooklyn-based old time string band The Dust Busters met playing in a larger band with folk legends John Cohen of the New Lost City Ramblers and Peter Stampfel of The Holy Modal Rounders. The band integrates a wide range of old-time, ballads, fiddle tunes and jug-band blues into each performance, conjuring that freewheelin' high-energy reminiscent of early string bands such as The Skillet Lickers, Dykes Magic City Trio, The Mississippi Sheiks, and J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers, among many greats. The Dust Busters are influenced and inspired by the direct fusion of Scots-Irish and African music that took place in Appalachia, the Western states and Deep South, from the earliest colonial times through the Second World War. Weaving these into a distinct sound with authenticity and creativity, The Dust Busters make it thoroughly contemporary, meaningful, raw...and foremost, fun. Â 
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John Cohen of the New Lost City Ramblers together with Brooklyn based old time band The Dust Busters will present a workshop on Old-time String Band Sounds & Styles. This interactive demo-style workshop will focus on the full band sounds of old-time music, using a variety of instruments including fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, Jews harp, spoons, jug and whatever they can get their hands on! The workshop will give people a sense of the interplay between these varied instruments, and how they can best work together to create the wonderful sound of old time music. Styles will cover rousing fiddle tunes and banjo breakdowns, string band blues arrangements as well as song and ballad accompaniment.
