 We
love old time music and we love banjos -- to play them, listen to them,
look at them, talk about them! In 2004 we formed Friends of Old
Time Banjo (FOB) to create opportunities to play old time music in a
low-key, supportive setting where we could grow as old time banjo
players. As we gained experience we began to welcome players of
other old time instruments to our
3rd Sunday Old Time Music Jam
which we run in and around the metropolitan Washington, DC area,
including Northern Virginia and Maryland. As the original FOBers
gained experience and the jam became faster, several members saw a need
for an old time practice session for newer members of our old time
community. In 2007, two of them stepped up to the plate and created the
2nd Sunday Beginners Jam
in Alexandria, Virginia. Most recently, some of our more
far-flung members wanted an old time jam a little closer to home
and so two new regular jams were born: the
Friends of Old Time Annapolis (FOTA) Jam in Annapolis, MD
area and the FOB~West Jam
in the Washington, VA area. In between jams FOB occasionally
sponsors old time banjo and fiddle workshops and we do our best to keep
each other informed about other concerts, festivals and other old time
music events.
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This is gonna be good ... upcoming old time music
events in the metropolitan Washington, DC area, Maryland and Northern
Virgina ... |
 April
12-13,
2008. Music Seminar with Joe Herrmann, Paw Paw, WV. Saturday
10:00am to Sunday 5:00pm. Joe will hold a music seminar for
all instruments at his house in Paw Paw, WV. Limited to 10 participants.
Joe will give individual attention/lesson and there will be be
group sessions for playing and learning new tunes. If you would
like to stay over, you can grab a spot on couch or mattress or pitch a
tent. Eating will be co-operative. Joe will provide a stew. Cost:
$100. For more info contact us by
clicking here and we will forward your message to Joe. |
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May 10, 2008. Music in the
Woods, Oregon Ridge Nature Center,outside Baltimore, MD. Amateurs
and professionals who play fiddle, banjo, dulcimer and other traditional
instruments are sought and encouraged to voluntarily entertain,
demonstrate and educate at Oregon Ridge Nature Center's annual festival
of traditional music from 10:00 am — 4:00 pm.
Click Here to
get a PDF flyer (you will need the
free Adobe Reader to access flyer) more info this great outdoors
event. Note: rain date Sunday May 11. |
 May
30, 2008.
Carolina Chocolate Drops
at the
Montpelier Arts Center,
located on the grounds of historic Montpelier Mansion in Laurel,
Maryland.
Individual concert tickets ($20/concert) go on sale Tuesday, February
12. Concerts sell out quickly. To ensure seats, call 301-953-1993
to order tickets by Visa or MasterCard. |
 Saturday
May 31 and Sunday, June 1. The Annual Washington Folk Festival at
Glen Echo Park in Maryland. FSGW's incredible labor of love of
the music. Relaxed area for playing tunes under the trees and multiple
stages with the best of the DC area's performers of traditional musics.
All that plus the beautiful, restored, historic Spanish Ballroom ~
doesn't get much better than that.
Click here for more info. |
July 12,
2008. Second Annual
Old Time
Banjo Festival with
Cathy
Fink, Marcy Marxer, Mike Seeger, Dan Gellert & other artists to be
announced.
Birchmere Music Hall, Alexandria, VA. |
 Hubie
King hosts a weekly, hour-long old time music radio show on
WAMU's BluegrassCountry. Featuring the best in today's old time
music plus interviews, concerts and live music from musicians such as
Alan Jabbour, Bruce Molsky, Scott Prouty and Gandydancer. The show
airs on Mondays at 6 pm and is repeated on Thursday morning at 6 am. The
name of the show is OLD TIME JAM. You can listen online at
www.bluegrasscountry.org
-- you need to register to listen but there is no fee involved. In
the Washington, DC area you can also hear the show on WAMU's new HD
radio station, WAMU 88.5-Channel 2. |
 We've
started a new WIKI to discuss tunes. It's called FOB TUNE TALK
and you can browse the tune discussion at any time. If you
want to make adds or edits, though, you have to sign up (for
free). To browse or sign up go to:
http://fobtunetalk.wetpaint.com |
 Everyday
at
www.folkstreams.net , you can watch many on-line
documentaries celebrating folk culture, including Jackson Frost's and
Stephen Wade's 1987 film "Catching the Music." This
website is a true national treasure! |
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