Mary Z. Cox, two time Florida & North Carolina banjo champion, and Mountain dulcimer champion will perform in concert.
at St. Peters By-the-Lake, Denver, NC Wednesday, July 13 at 7p.m. An open jam will follow the concert. Mary’s concert featuring banjo and also mountain dulcimer and the jam are open to the public. Concert general admission tickets are $15. for adults, well behaved children are free. Contact Cynthia Jones soon at mjones3244@aol.com or 704-483-0653 for ticket purchase. Tickets are prepaid and will be picked up at will-call the evening of the concert.There is limited seating available. Mary Z has taught claw hammer banjo for over a decade at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina. She is also a Florida mountain dulcimer champion, as well as a four-time champion at the Transylvania (NC) Old Time Music Competition. Her video interview in Smithsonian Folkways’ “Conversations With Old Time Performers”/ volume II (2015) is the only interview in the series featuring Old Florida music culture and photos as well as many of Mary Z’s unique banjos. Craig Evans, videographer and interviewer for the DVD series, says she was included in this historical project because of her prolific recordings and instruction books & energetic hands on instruction, which have helped thousands of folks around the world, become better banjoists and musicians. Mary Z. Cox, is a third generation Floridian originally from Brevard County, Florida where her paternal grandparents were early settlers of the Indian River Catholic Colony. Her maternal granddad, a professional banjoist from St. Joe Missouri, inspired her early interest in the banjo. She records cds, plays concerts & festivals, gives workshops, and authors banjo & dulcimer instruction books. Her music has been played on National Public Radio’s, “Thistle & Shamrock”, “All Songs Considered,” Pandora World Music Genome, & the BBC. For more information about Mary, check out her Web site: maryzcox.com