Word: banjo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...power plant, MIT is an institution downriver, and Kresge runs a chain of five-and-dime stores. If you don't know who Pete Seeger is, you should not read this column unless accompanied by a parent or guardian. Suffice it to say you'll hear moving songs on banjo and guitar, played by one of the original contemporary folkies...
...roof at the First Congregational Church of Cambridge with straight, 100 per cent mainline bluegrass. Nancy Tallbot, who seems to singlehandedly run the Boston Area Friends of Bluegrass and Old Time Country Music, which is sponsoring Stover's appearance, calls Stover "one of the four or five best banjo players in the world. "According to Tallbot, Stover first came to Boston from Clear Creek, W. Va. in the early 50s. After getting in good with the locals, Stover maintained an 18 year run at Hillbilly Ranch, a somewhat seedy country-music Boston nightclub. Tiring of the cold winters, Stover moved...
...this, Stover's first Boston concert since his trek south, be prepared for his lightning picking, a little banjo frailing and some rare Stover guitar-flatpicking. Tickets are $4, kids under 12 free; call 492-0415 for more info. Coffee and punch served free, bring some home-baked munchies and an instrument for the after-show pickin' party...
Sunday at 2 pm, the Boston Bluegrass Union sponsors a concert by Apple Country in the Gutman Library conference room on Appian Way in Cambridge. Admission is $2.50, children free. Banjo workshop and picking after the concert. Call 661-0214 or 965-5785 for details...
...ever wondered what a unique five-string banjo sounds like, go to Common Grounds (661-1640) tomorrow night at 8:30 pm, because Jeff Aumiller promises to play same. Saturday at 11 am the Talking Bear performs children's music and magic, and Sunday at 3 pm Temple Tones strike "percussive rhythms and mantras with recorders, flutes...