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Civil War Song Must Learns
Hello. I am a music teacher. I am looking at getting a class set of cardboard dulcimers and teaching songs focused around US History for next...
@Bvmaestro started last year - replies: 1
Battle Cry of Freedom
This is widely considered tobe one of the greatest military songs ever written. Here is a capsule history from 1896 . Here is the...
@Tom McDonald started 11 years ago - replies: 3
Dulcimer during the War Between the States
Here's some food for thought regarding if dulcimers were played in the War Between the States. John Mawhee said he got the pattern for the "Indian...
@Rob N Lackey started 11 years ago - replies: 18
O, I'm A Good Old Rebel
...well, not me personally, although I do live in The South. This tune was sung to the tune Joe Bowers, a favorite of the '49ers. Edward VII, then...
@Ken Hulme started 11 years ago - replies: 11
Clothes & gear when playing for historical settings
Thought I'd post this here to chatter about what we bring/use/wear when we go to gigs or gatherings in Civil War reenactment type settings. It's...
@Strumelia started 7 years ago - replies: 19
Great book with sheet music for REAL Civil War era songs
John and Elaine Masciale put together a book with a huge collection of sheet music and lyrics from authentic popular American songs of the mid...
@Strumelia started 8 years ago - replies: 4
The Bridge Burners of East TN
One of my students is doing a project on the subject, and he asked if there is any music from the incident, either civil war era or not. I said...
@Mark Runge started 8 years ago - replies: 3
The Joel Sweeney Early Banjo Convergence, Appomattox VA
I enjoyed playing the banjo and the bones at this event this past weekend! It was a real immersion in the minstrel repertoire, and good jamming....
@Strumelia started 8 years ago - replies: 8
Aura Lea
Here's my chorded DAA rendition of Aura Lea. The song was published right around the beginning of the war, and was popular on both sides. In the...
@William Mann started 9 years ago - replies: 2
Bonnie Blue Flag
This is a Confederate tune written by Harry Macarthy. It has the same melody as The Homespun Dress. Does anyone know which came first? Below are...
@Patty from Virginia started 11 years ago - replies: 6
"Morgenrot"
As I had tabbed some German folk songs the last days, Ken Hulme asked me to tab "Morgenrot" and said that it was sung during the Civil War in the...
@Peter W. started 11 years ago - replies: 6
Antietam Early Banjo Gathering 2013
Of interest perhaps to those in this group who like music and history related to the 1800's and Civil War era- I'm taking a road trip to attend...
@Strumelia started 11 years ago - replies: 17
Year of Jubilo / Kingdom Coming
What a good new group. We were needing something new to talk about. Here is a tune most people have heard, written in 1862 by Henry Clay Work,...
@Randy Adams started 11 years ago - replies: 5
Lily Dale
Carl Anderton is a great banjo player who plays the old minstrel style. His version of Lily Dale is about as sad as it can be played & sung....
@Randy Adams started 11 years ago - replies: 8
Hard Times, Come Again No More.
One of my favorites for the dulcimer, published by Steven Foster, 1854. Hard Times, Come Again No More
@Jack Ferguson started 11 years ago - replies: 23
Tenting Tonight
I learned two arrangements of this for mountain dulcimer from tab, but I had not looked at either for a few years before making this video in the...
@Tom McDonald started 11 years ago - replies: 1
Lorena and a daydream
Another "Warts and All" video. (Aren't y'all lucky to see the unedited junk I put out Here's Lorena on the John Mawhee repro Kevin...
@Rob N Lackey started 11 years ago - replies: 4
Frank Proffitt's Grandfather and Civil War Tunes
Frank Proffitt's grandfather, John Wesley Proffitt, was a southerner from East Tennessee that joined the 13th Tennessee Union Cavalry. He was...
@Banjimer started 11 years ago - replies: 1