Mary Z. Cox --Banjos & dulcimers & more . Program TBA--but there will be Banjos & Dulcimers up close and personal--Hear the Stories & listen to the mountain voices of some incredible instruments.
2022
Previous events
TBA--post more later--just know I signed up to be a judge that weekend. Glad this event is starting up again live after many years.
Details to be announced--will update when its scheduled--there will be a host(not me) and other Songwriters. Will be singing & playing a few original and mostly original songs with other local songwriters TBA :)
3 day mountain dulcimer workshops, concert & fun activities. More information coming soon. Hope to see you there--Bob & Charley are coming with me--so its gonna be super fun :)
2 time Florida Banjo Champion Mary Z. Cox plays Under the Oaks @ 12 noon Friday May 27th. If you arrive 5 minutes early--you may get a seat in the shade to listen & eat your lunch :) Paw Paw stage-1 pm--Saturday May 28 Will McLean Stage 2:30 pm Sunday May 29
Please join Mary Z for an intimate solo evening of Blues, Ballads & Banjo. Mary Z has been playing acoustic music most of her life & as you may suspect--she sings and plays many blues, ballads, folk tunes on other instruments than banjo (Don't worry--there will be banjo) lots of good traditional and original tunes that never quite fit in old time and bluegrass sets & just come out and hear--have a few beers and it will sound wonderful :)
Mary Z. Cox and an awesome guest flying in from Boston--and--there will be Banjo & more :) 7--9 :30 Pm An awesome evening of acoustic fiddle and banjo, Celtic Christmas & more.
Down from the mountain music on Fiddle, Banjo & Beyond. 3 sets of multi genre acoustic music with banjo & mountain dulcimer Champion--Mary Z. Cox & Boston fiddler--Cameron Freer. We played together at the Priceless Festival in 2019 in the California mountains & now we're bringing it to Tallahassee just in time for the holidays.
TBA Will post links when they arrive--but it will be a virtual concert & zoom workshops. I sent in lesson plans for 2 mountain dulcimer workshops & 2 clawhammer banjo workshops.
Thanks to the fine folks in Petal, MS--Mary Z. won the Deep South Mountain Dulcimer Championship in Feb. 2020--just before everything shut down for the Pandemic. Then the national contest had to move the 2020 finals to September 2021. But all the regional winners of 2020 &2021 have a competition place in the finals & we are gonna pack the camper and go ! Don't have our travel details yet--but if anyone else out there is going and if you are on the way from Tallahassee FL to Winfield Kansas--please let us know. Or if you are going to be there--let us know so we can pick and visit :)
Please join Mary Z. Cox & Jim Crozier for an experimental evening on Mountaintop Banjo & Hurricane Bass 6-8 pm
Details to be announced--but there will be banjo & we are gonna have a really good time--please mark your calendar if you will be in Western North Carolina on July 9 2020.
Gebhard Woods Dulcimer & Traditional Music Fetival
Gebhard Woods Dulcimer & Traditional Music Fetival, Morris, IL
WoW ! This looks like a wonderful festival--just look at the line up of performers, workshop hosts, jams, picking already simmering up. They have asked me to teach some mountain dulcimer & clawhammer banjo & see there's gonna be some other instruments too. http://www.gebharddulcimer.org/featured-performers Going to post details when they start coming in--but please put June 13--14th on your calendar for 2020. Bob & I are gonna get the new Bambi revved up and we will be camping at this event. We have never been to northern iL--but we hear its beautiful & looks like there are going to be folks coming from all over. Hope to see you there :) Boy oh boy--this one is going to be fun ! ps. If anyone on the way to or from Morris IL from Tallahassee, Fl would like to host us for a house concert/jam or workshop--please email me and we can make it happen :) maryz@maryzcox.com
TBA
Please save the date & details will be announced soon. But this is gonna be an incredible concert where Mary Z & Runa will play a double header concert. If you haven't heard Runa--they are an awesome world class Irish Band that take the stage by storm. Its also my birthday weekend & am so honored that I'll be able to do my February birthday and Valentine day set--& the opera house has promised chocolate cake with chocolate cake for everyone to celebrate February birthdays. This is gonna be a really fun & exciting concert & really want everyone I know & love to come and be a part of it--gonna be some wonderful music and chocolate cake--this is the 1st time this combination has happened & I'm looking so forward to being part of this. :) If you have never been to the Monticello Opera House--its 120 years old--beautiful and probably the best acoustics of a small intimate hall in the south. If you've been before--you know how magical it is :)
TBA
Details TBA --but bringing my new CD Carolina Banjo to the coast at this fine listening room hosted by Debbie Dix Bishop. Brian & Jennifer Hill--fine multi instrumentalist pals will be picking & singing with me to bring you new original and traditional tunes & songs. Hope you'll come--its bound to be a very fun evening.
My 4 clawhammer workshops are on Saturday ! Please sign up for one or more of them--we are gonna play some good tunes and have a really fun time too :)
Previous events
2021 Florida Folk Festival/Memorial Day weekend--Looks like we might be vaccinated & Florida's Folk Festival may be back LIVE in 2021. As more information becomes available--we'll post the times and dates & stages of where we'll be. Bob & I have made it through 2020 & we are soooo looking forward to seeing our music buddies and friends live again.
Just won 1st place in the Deep South Dulcimer Contest in Petal, Mississippi and one of the prizes was a admission ticket to the Walnut Valley Festival and an entry into the National Mountain Dulcimer Championships. The festival runs from September 16-20 th 2020.
And of course--this is a great dulcimer adventure & I plan to go--the bumper sticker is already on my Highlander.
Not sure if I will be leaving from Tallahassee, Fl or Cashiers NC yet--but Bob probably cannot get off work this time of year--so looking for some possible house concerts or dulcimer or banjo workshops on the way out or possibly the way back. Also--may be looking for a travel buddy for the trip. Drop me an email if you look like you would host a small house concert and/or workshop on the way to or from Tallahassee or NC to Winfield KS and back :)
Details to be announced--but there will be banjo & we are gonna have a really good time--please mark your calendar if you will be in Western North Carolina on July 9 2020.
Gebhard Woods Dulcimer & Traditional Music Fetival
Gebhard Woods Dulcimer & Traditional Music Fetival, Morris, IL
WoW ! This looks like a wonderful festival--just look at the line up of performers, workshop hosts, jams, picking already simmering up. They have asked me to teach some mountain dulcimer & clawhammer banjo & see there's gonna be some other instruments too. http://www.gebharddulcimer.org/featured-performers Going to post details when they start coming in--but please put June 13--14th on your calendar for 2020. Bob & I are gonna get the new Bambi revved up and we will be camping at this event. We have never been to northern iL--but we hear its beautiful & looks like there are going to be folks coming from all over. Hope to see you there :) Boy oh boy--this one is going to be fun ! ps. If anyone on the way to or from Morris IL from Tallahassee, Fl would like to host us for a house concert/jam or workshop--please email me and we can make it happen :) maryz@maryzcox.com
TBA
Very pleased to be joining my fellow Floridians in the Florida Folk Festival again this 2020. Details TBA--when I receive them. Its always a wonderful festival--hope to see you there. Bob & I will arrive on Thursday the 21st & leave after breakfast on the 25th.
Here are the times & places :) Friday May 22 5:30 pm Under the Oaks --performance Saturday May 23rd 12 noon Old Marble Stage--performance Sunday May 24th 2:30 pm Will Mclean Stage --performance Sunday May 24th 4:00 pm Jam Tent--Ladies Banjo Society Jam with Mary Z Cox & Pamela Jo Hatley
Going to be attending this event for traditional mountain dulcimers in Kentucky in May. Probably be there May 14, 15, 16--but will have to head home for the Florida Folk Festival the following week. Although I no longer have "Tater" my old Galax dulcimer--I do still have the "Lady With the Checkered Past" and a noter too--so will most likely bring her along :)
End of semester gig for FSU Irish ensemble Times TBA
FSU World Music Department hosts this concert with music around the world--I'll be part of the Irish Music Ensemble. Details TBA :)
Bob & I are headed out to Mississippi this weekend for a dulcimer festival. We'll be in the vending area with my mountain dulcimer book and banjo and mountain dulcimer cds. Just started a new mountain dulcimer tab book with new tunes and songs & hope to have it ready soon. :) If you are going--please stop by and say howdy :)
Please save the date & details will be announced soon. But this is gonna be an incredible concert where Mary Z & Runa will play a double header concert. If you haven't heard Runa--they are an awesome world class Irish Band that take the stage by storm. Its also my birthday weekend & am so honored that I'll be able to do my February birthday and Valentine day set--& the opera house has promised chocolate cake with chocolate cake for everyone to celebrate February birthdays. This is gonna be a really fun & exciting concert & really want everyone I know & love to come and be a part of it--gonna be some wonderful music and chocolate cake--this is the 1st time this combination has happened & I'm looking so forward to being part of this. :) If you have never been to the Monticello Opera House--its 120 years old--beautiful and probably the best acoustics of a small intimate hall in the south. If you've been before--you know how magical it is :)
TBA
Details TBA --but bringing my new CD Carolina Banjo to the coast at this fine listening room hosted by Debbie Dix Bishop. Brian & Jennifer Hill--fine multi instrumentalist pals will be picking & singing with me to bring you new original and traditional tunes & songs. Hope you'll come--its bound to be a very fun evening.
My 4 clawhammer workshops are on Saturday ! Please sign up for one or more of them--we are gonna play some good tunes and have a really fun time too :)
Please join two time Florida & North Carolina banjo champion & mountain dulcimer wiz-kid. Mary Z Cox for an evening of Banjo, bluegrass, blues & Beyond. Fun for all ages with traditional & original tunes & songs. Mary Z will be bringing her new CD & tab book Carolina Banjo 2019 which celebrates the 20th anniversary of her award winning 1999 CD--Vintage Banjo.
Going to IBMA this September to help promote my new CD--Carolina Banjo. Details TBA
Its happening again in July 2019--details TBA in 2019 :) Banjo, bluegrass, blues & beyond & lots of fiddle too :) Introducing new CD--Carolina Banjo. Lots of new songs tunes & its gonna be fun :)
Gonna be playing Northern California festival. Details to be announced soon. Bob & I will be driving out the new Bambi and camping on the way--we will probably leave a week in advance & take a week coming back. If you are interested in tickets--keep an eye on their website--in the past they have sold out the first day. Will will actually be at the festival site from about JUly 2-7th. Not sure of our exact route yet--but if anyone in the Sacramento area would be interested in hosting me for a house concert with workshop or jam--please let me know & bet we could make it happen. :)
Please Join me Sunday morning at the Old Marble Stage for some Banjo, bluegrass, blues & beyond.
Banjo, bluegrass, blues & Beyond with Mary Z Cox @ Under the Oaks Stage at 6:30 pm. Hope to see you there :)
May 22-24 2020
Details TBA as soon as I receive them.
Previous events
2021 Florida Folk Festival/Memorial Day weekend--Looks like we might be vaccinated & Florida's Folk Festival may be back LIVE in 2021. As more information becomes available--we'll post the times and dates & stages of where we'll be. Bob & I have made it through 2020 & we are soooo looking forward to seeing our music buddies and friends live again.
Just won 1st place in the Deep South Dulcimer Contest in Petal, Mississippi and one of the prizes was a admission ticket to the Walnut Valley Festival and an entry into the National Mountain Dulcimer Championships. The festival runs from September 16-20 th 2020.
And of course--this is a great dulcimer adventure & I plan to go--the bumper sticker is already on my Highlander.
Not sure if I will be leaving from Tallahassee, Fl or Cashiers NC yet--but Bob probably cannot get off work this time of year--so looking for some possible house concerts or dulcimer or banjo workshops on the way out or possibly the way back. Also--may be looking for a travel buddy for the trip. Drop me an email if you look like you would host a small house concert and/or workshop on the way to or from Tallahassee or NC to Winfield KS and back :)
Details to be announced--but there will be banjo & we are gonna have a really good time--please mark your calendar if you will be in Western North Carolina on July 9 2020.
Gebhard Woods Dulcimer & Traditional Music Fetival
Gebhard Woods Dulcimer & Traditional Music Fetival, Morris, IL
WoW ! This looks like a wonderful festival--just look at the line up of performers, workshop hosts, jams, picking already simmering up. They have asked me to teach some mountain dulcimer & clawhammer banjo & see there's gonna be some other instruments too. http://www.gebharddulcimer.org/featured-performers Going to post details when they start coming in--but please put June 13--14th on your calendar for 2020. Bob & I are gonna get the new Bambi revved up and we will be camping at this event. We have never been to northern iL--but we hear its beautiful & looks like there are going to be folks coming from all over. Hope to see you there :) Boy oh boy--this one is going to be fun ! ps. If anyone on the way to or from Morris IL from Tallahassee, Fl would like to host us for a house concert/jam or workshop--please email me and we can make it happen :) maryz@maryzcox.com
TBA
Very pleased to be joining my fellow Floridians in the Florida Folk Festival again this 2020. Details TBA--when I receive them. Its always a wonderful festival--hope to see you there. Bob & I will arrive on Thursday the 21st & leave after breakfast on the 25th.
Here are the times & places :) Friday May 22 5:30 pm Under the Oaks --performance Saturday May 23rd 12 noon Old Marble Stage--performance Sunday May 24th 2:30 pm Will Mclean Stage --performance Sunday May 24th 4:00 pm Jam Tent--Ladies Banjo Society Jam with Mary Z Cox & Pamela Jo Hatley
Going to be attending this event for traditional mountain dulcimers in Kentucky in May. Probably be there May 14, 15, 16--but will have to head home for the Florida Folk Festival the following week. Although I no longer have "Tater" my old Galax dulcimer--I do still have the "Lady With the Checkered Past" and a noter too--so will most likely bring her along :)
End of semester gig for FSU Irish ensemble Times TBA
FSU World Music Department hosts this concert with music around the world--I'll be part of the Irish Music Ensemble. Details TBA :)
Bob & I are headed out to Mississippi this weekend for a dulcimer festival. We'll be in the vending area with my mountain dulcimer book and banjo and mountain dulcimer cds. Just started a new mountain dulcimer tab book with new tunes and songs & hope to have it ready soon. :) If you are going--please stop by and say howdy :)
Previous events
2021 Florida Folk Festival/Memorial Day weekend--Looks like we might be vaccinated & Florida's Folk Festival may be back LIVE in 2021. As more information becomes available--we'll post the times and dates & stages of where we'll be. Bob & I have made it through 2020 & we are soooo looking forward to seeing our music buddies and friends live again.
Just won 1st place in the Deep South Dulcimer Contest in Petal, Mississippi and one of the prizes was a admission ticket to the Walnut Valley Festival and an entry into the National Mountain Dulcimer Championships. The festival runs from September 16-20 th 2020.
And of course--this is a great dulcimer adventure & I plan to go--the bumper sticker is already on my Highlander.
Not sure if I will be leaving from Tallahassee, Fl or Cashiers NC yet--but Bob probably cannot get off work this time of year--so looking for some possible house concerts or dulcimer or banjo workshops on the way out or possibly the way back. Also--may be looking for a travel buddy for the trip. Drop me an email if you look like you would host a small house concert and/or workshop on the way to or from Tallahassee or NC to Winfield KS and back :)
Details to be announced--but there will be banjo & we are gonna have a really good time--please mark your calendar if you will be in Western North Carolina on July 9 2020.
Gebhard Woods Dulcimer & Traditional Music Fetival
Gebhard Woods Dulcimer & Traditional Music Fetival, Morris, IL
WoW ! This looks like a wonderful festival--just look at the line up of performers, workshop hosts, jams, picking already simmering up. They have asked me to teach some mountain dulcimer & clawhammer banjo & see there's gonna be some other instruments too. http://www.gebharddulcimer.org/featured-performers Going to post details when they start coming in--but please put June 13--14th on your calendar for 2020. Bob & I are gonna get the new Bambi revved up and we will be camping at this event. We have never been to northern iL--but we hear its beautiful & looks like there are going to be folks coming from all over. Hope to see you there :) Boy oh boy--this one is going to be fun ! ps. If anyone on the way to or from Morris IL from Tallahassee, Fl would like to host us for a house concert/jam or workshop--please email me and we can make it happen :) maryz@maryzcox.com
TBA
Very pleased to be joining my fellow Floridians in the Florida Folk Festival again this 2020. Details TBA--when I receive them. Its always a wonderful festival--hope to see you there. Bob & I will arrive on Thursday the 21st & leave after breakfast on the 25th.
Here are the times & places :) Friday May 22 5:30 pm Under the Oaks --performance Saturday May 23rd 12 noon Old Marble Stage--performance Sunday May 24th 2:30 pm Will Mclean Stage --performance Sunday May 24th 4:00 pm Jam Tent--Ladies Banjo Society Jam with Mary Z Cox & Pamela Jo Hatley
Going to be attending this event for traditional mountain dulcimers in Kentucky in May. Probably be there May 14, 15, 16--but will have to head home for the Florida Folk Festival the following week. Although I no longer have "Tater" my old Galax dulcimer--I do still have the "Lady With the Checkered Past" and a noter too--so will most likely bring her along :)
End of semester gig for FSU Irish ensemble Times TBA
FSU World Music Department hosts this concert with music around the world--I'll be part of the Irish Music Ensemble. Details TBA :)
Bob & I are headed out to Mississippi this weekend for a dulcimer festival. We'll be in the vending area with my mountain dulcimer book and banjo and mountain dulcimer cds. Just started a new mountain dulcimer tab book with new tunes and songs & hope to have it ready soon. :) If you are going--please stop by and say howdy :)
Please save the date & details will be announced soon. But this is gonna be an incredible concert where Mary Z & Runa will play a double header concert. If you haven't heard Runa--they are an awesome world class Irish Band that take the stage by storm. Its also my birthday weekend & am so honored that I'll be able to do my February birthday and Valentine day set--& the opera house has promised chocolate cake with chocolate cake for everyone to celebrate February birthdays. This is gonna be a really fun & exciting concert & really want everyone I know & love to come and be a part of it--gonna be some wonderful music and chocolate cake--this is the 1st time this combination has happened & I'm looking so forward to being part of this. :) If you have never been to the Monticello Opera House--its 120 years old--beautiful and probably the best acoustics of a small intimate hall in the south. If you've been before--you know how magical it is :)
TBA
Details TBA --but bringing my new CD Carolina Banjo to the coast at this fine listening room hosted by Debbie Dix Bishop. Brian & Jennifer Hill--fine multi instrumentalist pals will be picking & singing with me to bring you new original and traditional tunes & songs. Hope you'll come--its bound to be a very fun evening.
My 4 clawhammer workshops are on Saturday ! Please sign up for one or more of them--we are gonna play some good tunes and have a really fun time too :)
Please join two time Florida & North Carolina banjo champion & mountain dulcimer wiz-kid. Mary Z Cox for an evening of Banjo, bluegrass, blues & Beyond. Fun for all ages with traditional & original tunes & songs. Mary Z will be bringing her new CD & tab book Carolina Banjo 2019 which celebrates the 20th anniversary of her award winning 1999 CD--Vintage Banjo.
Going to IBMA this September to help promote my new CD--Carolina Banjo. Details TBA
Its happening again in July 2019--details TBA in 2019 :) Banjo, bluegrass, blues & beyond & lots of fiddle too :) Introducing new CD--Carolina Banjo. Lots of new songs tunes & its gonna be fun :)
Gonna be playing Northern California festival. Details to be announced soon. Bob & I will be driving out the new Bambi and camping on the way--we will probably leave a week in advance & take a week coming back. If you are interested in tickets--keep an eye on their website--in the past they have sold out the first day. Will will actually be at the festival site from about JUly 2-7th. Not sure of our exact route yet--but if anyone in the Sacramento area would be interested in hosting me for a house concert with workshop or jam--please let me know & bet we could make it happen. :)
Please Join me Sunday morning at the Old Marble Stage for some Banjo, bluegrass, blues & beyond.
Banjo, bluegrass, blues & Beyond with Mary Z Cox @ Under the Oaks Stage at 6:30 pm. Hope to see you there :)