The Florida Folk Festival is Memorial Day Weekend--May 26-28. It is a wonderful event focusing on the music, culture & history of Florida. Here's my schedule :) Friday May 26th 3:30pm Old Marble Stage Saturday May 27th 2PM Workshop I Easy String Band Dulcimer Tunes Workshop Saturday May 27th 5PM Under the Oaks Stage Sunday May 28th 11:30 AM River Gazebo Stage I'll be playing banjo & singing & bringing some more Mountain Music Gone Coastal to the stage. And yes--the big cello banjo is playing too :) Hope you can come--its going to be very fun !
Please welcome 2 time Florida & NC Banjo Champion & Florida, North Carolina & Tennessee Mountain Dulcimer Champion, Mary Z Cox to the 2017 Florida Folk Festival. MaryZ has played banjo since she was 12 & has recorded since 1999. She was recently video interviewed in Smithsonian Folkways “Conversations With Old Time Performers” and is the only banjoist in the series featuring the folk banjo music & culture of Old Florida & 21st century Florida. Mary Z ‘s photo & music is featured in October in the 2017 Banjo Babes Calendar)CD compilation & was the May Banjo Babe in 2016. She has recorded 10 cds and 10 instruction books & her newest CD & tab book, “Good Morning Banjo” are available at this festival. Her music’s been played on National Public Radio’s “Thistle & Shamrock,” “All Songs Considred,” Pandora World Music Genome, & the BBC. She’s taught clawhammer banjo for over a decade at the John C. Campbell Folk School as well as camps and festivals nationwide, including the Florida Folk Festival , and the Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby, NC. Mary Z has traveling around the world with a banjo on her back and brought American banjo tunes to the Osaka Ferry terminal, Shanghai Ferry, Shanghai Conservatory Of Music, Mongolian dining car on the TransSiberian Railway, Vancouver, BC, Dutch Harbour, UnAlaska, Abby Road in London & on deck on the Queen Mary II in the harbor with the Statue of Liberty.
TBA