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| FROM BANJO TO FIDDLE: The Strings of
Storytellers
by Debbie Crockett-Rice, Series Developer, "Tuesdays with the Muse" |
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On Tuesday, January 22nd, 2002, at 7PM at the Cape Museum of Fine Arts Muse
program will feature a magical musical collaboration of backwoods
storytelling through the banjo and fiddle with William Montague, "banjo
player extraordinaire", and Stuart Moore, a founding member of Cape Cod
Fiddlers.
WILLIAM MONTAGUE, of Chatham, developed an interest in American folk music during the early 1960's as a result of his introduction to collector-musician Paul Clayton and recording artists, Richard Farina and Carolyn Hester. Building his first Appalachian mountain dulcimer in 1961 at age 11, William began playing the 5-string banjo the following year. While in college, he began to play informally with other musicians in the early 70's and performed with "The Oyster River Valley Boys", consisting of Stuart Moore, Donny Greenwall and Mike Gilpatric. Abandoning the banjo with the birth of his first child in 1977, twenty years passed before he started playing the instrument. With this renewed interest, he transgressed from contemporary Bluegrass style to the older "claw hammer" or "frailing" style of banjo playing. Recently adding the diminutive banjo-ukulele to his musical "arsenal", Mr. Montague's choice of instruments has been described as, "the perfect vision of Hell". Mr. Montague plays weekly with the traveling jam session, "the Chefs", and is a regular contributor to "The Banjo Newsletter". He adds, "You know those jokes about banjo players? They're all true". STUART MOORE, also of Chatham, has lived on the Cape most of his life, and has worked for many years as a fisherman until, in 1984, he became the Shellfish Warden for the Town of Chatham. His musical interest originated in the folk era of the 60's when he was first exposed to and developed an interest in bluegrass music. He actually played bluegrass banjo in the 70's, but then discovered his first love, the fiddle. The fiddle players in Bill Monroe's band captured his fancy , and his fiddle playing began. Developing an affinity for "old time" fiddling, which is referred to as the Appalachian Fiddle, he found his niche. In the 90's, he and other fiddle players evolved into a group of ten fiddle players who gather on a weekly basis.....thus the birth of the Cape Cod Fiddlers. This group serves as wellspring for his growth as a fiddle player. Most recently, he and Bill Montague started playing old time tunes together. As he states, "The symbiosis that exists between the fiddle and the banjo is as old as the music itself and creates for me as pure an expression of my musical aspirations as I have yet to find". Admission is $6.50 for members with a CMFA Art Discovery Card. Regular admission : $8.00 for members, $10.00 for others. |
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