House Concerts
MORNINGSIDE HOUSE CONCERTS PRESENTS
Adam Hurt & Beth Hartness
Saturday, November 5, 8:00 PM
Special banjo workshop with Adam on Saturday afternoon, 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM
For more info or to reserve a place at this concert or workshop contact fluteseeds@comcast.net
all donations to this concert go to the artists
NOTE: Adam and Beth will be playing for the contra dance on Friday, November 4, 8:00PM - 11:00 PM
About Adam & Beth
Deemed a "banjo virtuoso" by the Washington Post, Adam Hurt has fused several traditional old-time idioms to create his own elegantly innovative clawhammer banjo style, having been introduced to the banjo at age eleven in his native Minnesota. A respected performer and teacher of traditional music, Adam has played at the Kennedy Center and conducted banjo workshops at many venues around the country and abroad. Adam has placed in or won most of the major old-time banjo competitions including Clifftop, Mount Airy, and Galax, and won the state banjo championships of Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio, as well as the state fiddle championships of Virginia and Maryland.
Raised on a tobacco farm in Caswell County, North Carolina, Beth Williams Hartness taught herself to play the guitar at the age of twelve, and later discovered that her unique, self-designed style of fingerpicking resembled that of Round Peak guitar players Paul Sutphin and Chester McMillian. Beth has participated in old-time music since the 1980s, was a founding member of the Charlotte Folk Music Society, and has been a member of numerous award-winning stringbands, including two first-place ensembles at the Clifftop band competition.
About the Workshop
In this clawhammer banjo workshop, we will examine the unique capabilities of the Sandy River Belle tuning (gEADE), a wonderful and traditional alternate tuning for the key of G. As a group, we will go over the basic workings of the tuning, and then learn a tune or two together. We will also explore ways of applying this tuning to other tunes in the key of G, both tunes that may already be in participants' repertoires as well as tunes yet to be learned. This is a workshop for intermediate to advanced players who can comfortably execute the drop-thumb. The use of a recording device is highly recommended, as all tunes will be taught by ear in the traditional manner.
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