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The UCSB Performance Ensemble Of Hill-Billy Music<\/em>, in a program February 20, 2008. (James Wimmer, Barbara Taylor, Jared Stein, Philip
\nMurphy, Sean Anderson, Tim Cooley, Erin Putnam, Peter Feldmann,
\nJohn McDonnel, Justin Charbonneau, and Scott Burkall.)\n<\/p>\n

I’ve been having a great time playing music with a group of students at UCSB under the auspices of the Ethnomusicology Department. \u00a0We’ve been learning about the music by performing it, and having a great time to boot. \u00a0Today, we gave a 50 minute show complete with lots of banjo – fiddle tunes, a Baptist lined-out hymn, play party songs, ballads, \u00a0a couple of country blues songs and a nice gospel quartet. \u00a0The weather was forecast to be rainy, but though there was some wind, we managed to get the sun\u00a0to\u00a0make\u00a0an\u00a0appearance\u00a0as well. \u00a0As you can see, we had trios of fiddles, banjos, and guitars. \u00a0It would have been nice to get a jug bass in there, but no empty jugs made their appearance as of yet. \u00a0The class runs into March, and perhaps we’ll get a booking elsewhere in the community, if not on American Idol<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Thanks,\u00a0everyone,\u00a0for\u00a0all\u00a0your\u00a0effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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