Robbif's Recordings & Photos

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As I've done before - too many times - I just "discovered" two more recordings - right under my nose - from the Towne Crier Café of Buck White & The Down Home Folks with Bob Black on banjo, one from May 1977 and one from August 1978. One was already digitized. I've now added them to the one I already had online...

http://frobbi.org/audio/buckwhiteblack.html

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Here-We-Go-Again Dept...

As has happened so many times in the past, I was rummaging through my hundreds of
audio cassettes and "discovered" a "new" one.

It's the Woodstock Mountains Revue at the Bear Mountain Festival on August 2, 1981
with Happy Traum, Artie Traum, Bill Keith, Jim Rooney, Caroline Dutton, Roly Salley,
John Herald, Larry Campbell, and Pat Alger

A lot of fun and music!

http://frobbi.org/audio/wmr-bearmtn.html

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Here is a belated posting of another great band, all of whom are longtime friends of the Hudson Valley Bluegrass Association and me too.So this announcement comes with my personal apology to Joan, Betsy, Mike, Jamie, and Sofia for denying everyone this wonderful music for so long. It won't take away from your enjoyment, however.



http://www.toobluemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/toobluemusic/
http://www.sofiachiarandini.com/
https://www.facebook.com/sofia.chiarandini
https://www.hvbluegrass.org/

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Prepare for some more top-shelf music in this second installment of the
Hudson Valley Bluegrass Association's final concert of the season.
We were thrilled to have this combination that reached musical critical mass
with a Berklee College of Music Professor/member of Mr. Sun (Joe K. Walsh),
two folks from Della Mae (Celia Woodsmith & Zoe Guigueno), and a member of
Town Mountain (Bobby Britt).

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I decided to extract some audio from my videos for my iPod and decided to share them with you. The 3 new entries are from my Hudson Valley Bluegrass Association concerts with Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen, the Andy Statman Ramble, and the duet of Michael Daves and Jen Larson. So here's the first attempt...

http://frobbi.org/audio/audio-from-video/

The Grey Fox Bill Keith Banjo Summit audio link is included, but that's been available for a long time.

Enjoy, Fred

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I've added more tracks: http://frobbi.org/audio/audio-from-video/
And I wish you..

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Grey Fox Full Schedule and Program Book

It's all available here: https://greyfoxbluegrass.com/festival/schedule/



Grey Fox Exclusives - Creekside Stage
I'll be there to record these events for official Grey Fox video.

Thursday July 19
4:00
Interview w/Panama Red
(Peter Rowan)
with John Rossbach

Friday July 20
3:00
Epilogue: Tribute to John
Duffey: Akira Otsuka & Friends
including Tim O’Brien, Ron
Thomason, Jerry Douglas.
w/ Tim Kruzic, moderator

5:30
Doc Watson Remembered:
Billy Strings, Bryan Sutton,
and Joe Newberry

Saturday July 21
1:00
Doyle Lawson
Interview w/ John Rossbach

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Hi Folks,
I'm back from a great week at Grey Fox. I'd been out of web contact & may not be able to catch up with Facebook and email, so please be patient.

It was an extraordinary time at the Creekside Stage, my 10th year in a row as an official media volunteer, where I accumulated about 25 hours of video with 3 camcorders. In addition to at least 5 always-top-shelf Berklee College of Music bands; 4 more emerging artist bands; mandolin moguls with Sam Bush & Sierra Hull; Molly Tuttle's encore with Billy Strings; & much more (see the link below). For the first time, what I consider four - count 'em - four special events: Interviews with Peter Rowan & Doyle Lawson by John Rossbach; remembering Doc Watson with Bryan Sutton, Billy Strings, & Joe Newberry; & good friend Akira Otsuka's Epilogue CD project: tribute to John Duffey with Akira onstage with Tim Kruzic, Kitsy Kuykendall, Ron Thomason & Jerry Douglas.

As usual, my videos will be coming out on the Grey Fox YouTube channel & Facebook page as time permits.
https://greyfoxbluegrass.com/festival/schedule/

Here's a quick photo glance at all of this year's Grey Fox Creekside Stage activity from my official video footage.
http://frobbi.org/slides/creeksidegreyfox2018/

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After learning that John Rossbach would be interviewing Peter Rowan
at Grey Fox 2018's Creekside Stage where I record video as a volunteer,
I looked back at the 5 decades (so far) that Peter's influenced my bluegrass journey.

Here's what I just came up with: http://frobbi.org/slides/rowan/

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I found this official Grey Fox web page, so I thought I'd share my own videos from that summer.
(see below)

https://greyfoxbluegrass.com/festiva...s-to-grey-fox/


My videos of Buddy from Grey Fox 2010...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...e_polymer=true

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I have biased interest in sharing this. Steve is a good friend and so is Sofia, the fiddle player in the band.

Steve Martin

On the next installment of Steve Martin's Unreal Bluegrass , beginning Sunday August 5th , 7 to 10PM Eastern on WSDL 90.7FM Delmarva Public Radio my guests are The Ruta Beggars and Tony Trischka.
They appeared at Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival this year with Tony , their teacher and mentor , as part of the stage featuring artists from Berklee College of Music. Each band was superb . I was only able to catch this act with the help of Katy Daley who was the MC for the stage that afternoon.
The Ruta Beggars have a great stage presence and high performance IQ.They generate their own songs .



The vocals and instrumentals are stellar. We discuss the band and the Berklee College of Music.
They had just come off stage . The energy level was high . We had some fun.
This photograph is courtesy of one of my best friends at Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, Fred Robbins, which is saying a lot since I have so many dear ones there. Fred is a fierce artist behind any device capable of capturing images and video.You will see much of his work on the official website of Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival.
Steve Martin's Unreal Bluegrass is three hours of the best Bluegrass across the generations , combining conversation with the legends and those becoming. Pick Peace.It's an option.
PS Tony Trischka and I had a "one on one" chat latter in the day. Always fascinating .He has some new projects in the works.
That show will air soon.
http://www.unrealbluegrass.com/

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Let's kick off the 2018 Creekside Stage Emerging Artist Showcase performances with
one of the six Berklee College of Music's American Roots Music Program bands with
four other bands coming.

(Video tag doesn't seem to work, so here's the direct link...)

https://youtu.be/Hw_v7Y3DfLI


The video is also on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greyfoxblue...6799585657454/

http://www.bbu.org/bands/pretty-saro/
https://www.facebook.com/PrettySaroBand/
https://www.berklee.edu/focused/roots
https://www.facebook.com/groups/220657547993536/

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There's a lot of great picking that happens offstage, anytime day or night!

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With the Oldtone Roots Music Festival coming in September, here are all my a/v reminders
of what to expect from this warm, friendly, intimate gathering...

VIDEOS...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...787T9H7USMGoqs
PHOTOS...
http://frobbi.org/slides/oldtone2017
http://frobbi.org/slides/oldtone2016

https://www.oldtonemusicfestival.com
https://www.facebook.com/OldtoneMusicFestival

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Almost Five Decades!

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Ivor Trueman, already the generous contributor of over 2,000 MP3s, has now shared an historic recording from Copenhagen in 1966.

It includes the Stanley Brothers, Roscoe Holcomb, the New Lost City Ramblers, Cyp Landrenau's Cajun Band, and Cousin Emmy.

Be sure to read the story of this event.

http://frobbi.org/audio/ivor/Stanley-1966

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Glad to share these with you!
Bryan Haywood

August 20 at 8:02 PM ·






I'm so happy to share with you this historic audio PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TO THE PUBLIC.
Live concert audio from a Flatt and Scruggs concert at the Berkeley Community Theater on June 16th, 1962
1) Rueben
2) I Wonder How the Old Folks are at Home?
3) Orange Blossom Special
4) The Legend of the Johnson Boys
5) You Can Hear the Whistle Blow a Hundred Miles
6) Billy In the Lowground
7) Sally Goodwin
8) John Henry *
9) Cotton-Eyed Joe
10) Cousin Jake's Punctuation Comedy
11) Temperance Reel
12) Jimmy Brown the Newsboy
13) False-Hearted Lover
14) Stay All Night (Stay a Little Longer) *
15) Lamplights in the Valley *
16) Take a Look (partial) *
*Featuring Hylo Brown







https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akac...&feature=share





I'm proud to present to you another historic concert audio recording of Flatt and Scruggs previously unknown to the public. This one is from May 5th, 1962 at the University of Illinois during the folk boom. It features 30 songs including the only live recording of Pike County Breakdown that I can recall. Sit back and enjoy! I will be uploading the individual songs in the near future as well for the times you may not want to hear the entire concert.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqUL...&feature=share
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I'm proud that these will automatically show up in my
Bryan Haywood Collection link to his entire series...
https://www.youtube.com/user/hbzejl/playlists
...as part of the From My Friends section of..
http://frobbi.org/picking.html

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Here's my first installment of the Songwriters Workshop on the Grass Roots Stage,
hosted by Caroline Isachsen.

As I walked up, my friend Jim Gaudet of Jim Gaudet & The Railroad Boys was sharing one of his personal creations.

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Here's a unique group, one of the many excellent artists from the American Roots Music Program at Berklee.
Another treat from the Creekside Stage.

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Folks,

Here's something I didn't just "discover", but am releasing for the first time.
You may find it amusing, maybe historic, maybe some good music.

Disclosure: The recording is not great and the only editing I did was to add a little bottom end to it.

In Atlanta 1970, Mike Nicolay, Bob Isenhour, and a bunch of friends
put this recording together for me and sent it to Cam Ranh Bay Vietnam
while I was stationed there.

http://frobbi.org/audio/atl/

Fred

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Finally, the first installment of John Rossbach's intimate interview with Peter Rowan on the Creekside Stage...

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Enjoy the conclusion of John Rossbach's intimate interview with Peter Rowan.
Peter also treats us to his latest song, "Carter Stanley's Eyes".

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I think you'll enjoy two of the four great local bands performing at this annual event,
where the Hudson Valley Bluegrass Association participated for the 8th year in a row.

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Very Sorry!

As of a few minutes ago, several of the above posts have been screwed up because a while ago I didn't realize I was not in Advanced mode.

So I just tried to add another post with a Video, and everything went crazy.

I'm afraid I cannot fix the above problems.