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Wow, this tune has a lot of history: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ash_Grove

August 1, 2024 - playing through this tune in drop-d tuning, and loving this '60s Martin 000-28C that Mike McKee restructured to work with steel strings. (...AND getting ready to play for the Jonesborough Locally Grown Farm To Table dinner, where I'll be playing guitar to back up Emily and Willis...)

The ETSU Global String Band explores how bluegrass and other American string band music is performed abroad, and plays string band music from around the world on our instruments. Here the group performs two tunes that we learned from Brittany Haas when she was our program artist in residence a while back: "Carl Linnaeus Polska" (composed by Gabriel Höök, the 18th century scientist's brother-in-...

A video vignette from Koska. filmed in 2019 by Lee Bidgood. More info here: www.appalachianplaces.org/post/kosodrevina-2019-documenting-bluegrass-on-a-mountain-in-slovakia www.leebidgood.net

The East Tennessee State University Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Roots Music Studies Global String Band, directed by professor Lee Bidgood, performing in April, 2021 at the Down Home in Johnson City, TN. Czechia-based accordionist Kieren Alexander shared these tunes with the first version of the Global String band that Lee was teaching at Prague's Charles University in 2019. (Check out Kieren's ban...

Here's another mandola project, the first half of the break for the Czech bluegrass song "Zátoka," which is a retexting by Czech banjoist and artist Marko Čermák of the Utah Phillips song "Rock Salt and Nails." The placid liquidity of this song calls for (well, to me) a break that emphasizes stasis over dynamism, at least in terms of the notes played. In the opening phrases of the break I keep ...

Emily calling a dance at the Down Home in Johnson City, TN - at an event sponsored by the Department of Appalachian Studies and Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Roots Music Studies at ETSU.

Playing at the fundraiser event at The Philosopher's House on February 4, 2024. Learn more about the disastrous earthquake that struck Japan on Jan 1 of this year (and support relief efforts financially) here: www.jrc.or.jp/english/relief/2024NotoPeninsulaEarthquake.html

This tune is one usually associated with fiddler John Salyer and played in an open A tuning. Adam Tanner slowed and lowered it for his "State of Grace" record, and I've loved it here, on instruments with C-strings, ever since.

The tune "Rawhide" give us a chance to practice the chord shapes that are at the heart of Bill Monroe's mandolin style, and which provide us ways to improvise and add to melodies, etc. The "three finger shapes" of the C, F, and G are a foundation, and then I use several "two-finger" chords to enrich the sound. These two-finger chords provide resting places in this section, with passing notes/fi...

In the bridge or B part of the tune "Rawhide," we have a series of changes moving around the circle of fifths, from E to A, D, and G, and from there back to the tonal home of the tune, C. Bill Monroe does a fun melodic thing for each of these chords, and I play these melodic bits out of the "three-finger chord" shapes. Start by practicing the chord changes with the plain three finger shapes, an...

Hmmm - does "Rawhide" work on the mandola? Lee Bidgood teaches on the faculty of the ETSU program in Bluegrass, Old-time and Roots Music Studies, where he teaches courses in roots music history, ethnomusicology, and leads a mandolin orchestra. Learn more about the ETSU program in Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Roots Music Studies here: www.etsu.edu/cas/das/bluegrass/ Listen to / buy the ETSU Mandolin...

Audio and video from part of the ETSU Mandolin Orchestra performance at the Down Home in Johnson City, TN on December 14, 2023. Faculty / Director - Lee Bidgood with: Barbara Bell, Delaney Dunlap, Nate Olson, Diggs DeRusha, Clinton Ross, Preston Alexander, Jim Miller, and Jeff Elkins Learn more about the ETSU program in Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Roots Music Studies here: www.etsu.edu/cas/das/blu...

Audio of the ETSU Global String Band and Mandolin Orchestra performance at the Down Home in Johnson City, TN on December 14, 2023, with special guests Diggs DeRusha and James Edgar. Faculty / Director - Lee Bidgood with: Hiroshi Arakawa, Sasan Ahovan, and Jeff Elkins & Barbara Bell, Delaney Dunlap, Nate Olson, Diggs DeRusha, Clinton Ross, Preston Alexander, Jim Miller, and Jeff Elkins Learn mor...

Square Dance at ETSU's Reece Museum, called by Emily Bidgood, April 19, 2023

2023 10 23 Hospitality LeeRoy

Zdenka Fischerová, Remembrance

Richard Hood and Jerry Keys, Banjo Gathering, 2023-11-3

Zak Capek Opatrny, 1992

Martin Zak - Lee Sexton segment

Our Hospitality (silent, timecode)

Lee Bidgood - Malina Brothers and Revival of Normalization-Era Songs

String band accompaniment for Musette

Musette with string band accompaniment

ETSU Mandolin Orchestra, Down Home, April 27, 2023

Practicing basic chords in the key of B on mandolin

Kosodrevina, 2019

Eighty (two) HD at ETSU Down Home End-of-semester show, Fall 2022

Tilson Mountain Sorgum Festival, October 15, 2022