Mike Seeger (August 15, 1933 – August 7, 2009) was an American folk singer, musician (autoharp, banjo, fiddle, dulcimer, guitar, mouth harp, mandolin, dobro) and folklorist. Nei gruppi: A. Robic & the Exertions, Strange Creek Singers, The New Lost City Ramblers, The Seeger Family. Varianti: Stai visualizzando tutto Mike Seeger. Various With Guest Star Mike Seeger - Highlights From The National Banjo Pickers Convention - Ngaruawahia 1969 ‎(LP, Mono).

Mike Seeger (August 15, 1933 – August 7, 2009) was an American folk singer, musician (autoharp, banjo, fiddle, dulcimer, guitar, mouth harp, mandolin, dobro) and folklorist. Aliases: Lefty Mouse. In Groups: A. Variations: Viewing All Mike Seeger.

Various With Guest Star Mike Seeger - Highlights From The National Banjo Pickers Convention - Ngaruawahia 1969 ‎(LP, Mono). The National Banjo Pickers' Convention Claudelands Hamilton Easter 1970 ‎(LP, Album, Mono).

Various With Guest Star Mike Seeger. Various - The National Banjo Pickers' Convention Claudelands Hamilton Easter 1970 ‎(LP, Album, Mono).

Goodnight Irene Various With Guest Star Mike Seeger - Highlights From The National Banjo Pickers Convention - Ngaruawahia 1969 ‎(LP, Mono).

Mike Seeger (August 15, 1933 – August 7, 2009) was an American folk musician and folklorist. He was a distinctive singer and an accomplished musician who played autoharp, banjo, fiddle, dulcimer, guitar, mouth harp, mandolin, dobro, jaw harp, and pan pipes. Seeger, a half-brother of Pete Seeger, produced more than 30 documentary recordings, and performed in more than 40 other recordings. He desired to make known the caretakers of culture that inspired and taught him.

National Banjo Pickers’ Convention organiser Michael Grace performs at the inaugural 1967 event. He still has the long neck five-string banjo, which he built himself. A hand-lettered flyer for the 1968 National Banjo Pickers’ Convention. Calligraphy by Michael Grace, design by Carole Shepheard - Michael Grace collection. US t Mike Seeger performs on the barge moored at the Waikato River near Ngāruawāhia during the 1969 National Banjo Pickers’ Convention. The Stoney Lonesome Boys perform on a barge at the National Banjo Pickers’ Convention, Ngāruawāhia, 1968. Left to right: Clive Collins, Jim Doak, Miles Reay, Brian Egan. Miles Reay collection. A flyer for the third National Banjo Pickers’ Convention, 1969. Michael Grace collection.

Plenty of BANJO PEOPLE will be at The Hamilton tonight for Eileen Carson Benefit featuring Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen, Tony Trischka, Footworks, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer at The Hamilton 6:30pm. Eileen Carson Benefit featuring Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen, Tony Trischka, Footworks, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer at The Hamilton.

The National Banjo Pickers' Convention, 1970. One of the most fondly remembered folk festivals was the National Banjo Pickers’ Convention. Held annually near Hamilton from 1967 to 1970, these festivals represent perhaps the first big surge of interest in bluegrass music in New Zealand. Three live albums from the Banjo Pickers’ Conventions were released on the Kiwi record label. The festival received international support from American folk legend Pete Seeger in 1968, and in 1969 his half-brother Mike Seeger performed there. The poster above advertises the final Convention in 1970, also the subject of the documentary ‘Keep on the sunny side’. Like many of the posters in Phil Garland’s collection, this Canterbury Folk Festival poster has an agreeably homemade feel. 10th Canterbury Folk Festival at Amberley Domain, 1985.

Banjo players are destined to fall in love with this 26-track CD study of picking in its many patterns. Folklorist and virtuoso Seeger draws on an array of traditional tunes to demonstrate the old-time styles of Roscoe Holcomb, Dock Boggs, Uncle Dave Macon, and other mountain maestros as well as the newfangled (well, we're talking the '40s) Earl Scruggs approach. Mike takes you from the earliest forms of African American banjo styles, to bluegrass, and leaves many stops behind. Perhaps the ultimate would be to get the three video set of instruction Mike has made based on this same reprtoire where he explains how each song is played and gives the history of the many different banjos he played them on and often the history of the players he learned these tunes from.