Audiences can expect more pipes and drums, as well as “banjos and bluegrass”, as organisers give an insight into this year’s extravaganza.
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Here’s a banjo from that era made from a rifle stock & artillery shell
https://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=NMAH-AHB2008q04381&max_w=800“This banjo was made by Elmer Thompson of Staten Island, New York around 1917-1919 while waiting to be discharged from the U.S. Army during World War I. It is a Four-String Banjo, with a body made from the base of a German Howitzer shell, the neck from the stock of a rifle, with 12 frets, and the tuning pegs from French machine-gun bullets.”
Likely as not it willl be The United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own”
or The Quaker City String Band which keeps popping up on my YouTube page
Small world. That fiddle player for the Army is the wife of a Gold Pick member, who is also playing bassoon in that video.
One of our good friends who is a fiddler locally is supposed to be playing at that event
It is an amazing experience. I’m sure your friend will love it. Gunnar
