Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Florida Folk Festival - 8:00 AM
Stephen Foster State Park
White
FL
32096
USA
1-877-635-3655
Mary Z. & Bob Cox at
Florida Folk Festival 2008
Date: May 23rd through May 25th, 2008. Gates open at 8:00 a.m.
Description: Enjoy the diversity of Florida´s culture and history when its residents share their food, music, dance, stories, crafts and work life. Visit Seminole family camp, watch the state fiddling contest and savor ethnic food and church supper favorites. Pets are not allowed.
Saturday, June 14th, 2008
Mary Z. & Bob Cox Live at Cal Tech - 8 PM
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena
CA
91125
USA
Price: $15 general/ $5.00 Cal Tech stud
We are excited to return to Pasadena and see our California friends & the Cal Tech Folk Society. Please come and join us--we have lots of new tunes and it will be great fun. :)
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
Old Time Banjo Workshop - 2:00 PM
Coffee Gallery Backstage/2029 N. Lake
Altadena
CA
91001
USA
626-398-7917
Price: $45.00
Old Time Banjo Workshop - 2-5 PM
Creeping up the Banjo Neck (Intermediate)
Begin to play tunes up the neck in Double C. Get your
fingers used to creeping past the 5th fret without music theory or
stress! We´ll use this technique to learn Sally Ann, John Stinson´s #2 and
Angeline. Come tuned in gCGCD. Add sparkle to your playing while having
lots of fun!
And we'll continue with "Snow Drop" in open C which is a fun tune--even if
you've played for years! Snowdrop has become a popular contest tune on the
East Coast and it is one of my most requested tunes for banjo workshops.
Limited to 20 students.
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Mary Z. & Bob Cox Live In Albuquerque - 7:00PM
Covenant Presbyterian Church
Albuquerque
NM
USA
Price: $15 general/ $12 members
Please join us for an evening of music and song in beautiful Albuquerque, NM.
We choose our favorite traditional tunes and combine them with a stage show that features Mary Z's banjoholic and dulcermaniac activities for an entertaining acoustic concert suitable for all ages. :)
Albuquerque's own "Hands Five" will be opening the show at 7:00 PM and we'll begin at 7:30 PM.
We've heard the Southwest Pickers really know how to have a good time--so please come out for a fun evening. :)
Check with Judy Muldawer for more details.
Friday, June 20th, 2008
Creeping up the Neck on Clawhammer Banjo - 6:30 PM
Judy Muldawer's home
Albuquerque
NM
(505) 298-5589
Price: 35.00
Clawhammer Banjo Workshop/Mary Z. Cox
Judy Muldawer's home
inquiry@siliconheights.com
Creeping up the Banjo Neck (Intermediate)
Begin to play tunes up the neck in Double C. Get your fingers used to creeping past the 5th fret without music theory or stress!
We´ll use this technique to learn Sally Ann, John Stinson´s #2 and
Angeline. Come tuned in gCGCD. Add sparkle to your playing while having
lots of fun.
6:30-8:30 PM workshop
8:30-9:30--stay and jam awhile with Bob and Mary.
Register with Judy in advance and get a
$5.00 gift certificate good towards any of Mary's CDs, Books, or T-shirts that evening.
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Mountain dulcimer workshop with Mary Z. Cox - 2:00 PM
Apple Mountain Music/ 10301 Comanche NE
Albuquerque
NM
87111
USA
(505) 237-2048
Price: 35.00
Stretching with the Mountain Dulcimer on string band Favorites/ String Band Style: Novice/intermediate Mary Z. Cox, Instructor - Learn to "stretch" your playing with easy variations on "Chickens Crowin" at Midnight" and "Angeline", then will experiment with North Alabama fiddle tune, "Step Around Johnny" in an easy string band style with fun variations. Mary Z. won two first place competitions in 2006 playing this tune--and you can learn to play it too! Please come tuned in DAD. Register in advance (by June 1) and get a $5.00 gift certificate good towards any of Mary's CDs, Books, or T-shirts that afternoon.
Sunday, June 22, 2008 2pm to 4 PM
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Be a Star, Play Banjo Workshop - 3PM
One Folk School Road
Brasstown
NC
28902
USA
Mary Z. Cox /Be a Star, Play Banjo Workshop
June 29-July 5th 2008
Expand your repertoire of banjo tunes, while improving your basic technique and tone. We'll explore tunings beyond basic G, begin drop thumbing, and play together as a class to steady right hand rhythms and practice simple chordal back up. Take your beginning skills to new levels while joining the fun and camaraderie of the banjo life.
Limited to twelve students. (This is going to be great fun--the food and facilites are awesome at Campbell--and it will be a week of fun and banjo!)