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  East Coast Piedmont Blues
In contrast, the Delta blues style of rural Mississippi is believed to have less of a white influence, as it was produced in a region with a higher concentration of African Americans.
Bruce Bastin, probably the leading expert on Piedmont blues, has written that large numbers of migrating African Americans settled in the urban centers of the mid-Atlantic region during the 1910s and 1920s, principally on the main roads and railroad lines connecting the South to the Northeast.
The heyday of the Piedmont blues sound was the 1920s and 30s, during the earliest days of commercial recording.
facstaff.unca.edu /sinclair/piedmontblues/Default.htm   (697 words)

  
 UNC-TV ONLINE: Piedmont Blues:
Piedmont blues has a "happy" sound and is usually picked from the strings rather than strummed.
A lot of Piedmont blues musicians use a thick metal ring that they slide up and down the neck of the guitar while they pick the strings--this is called "slide guitar" or "reeling." In the beginning of the blues movement, musicians used the neck of a bottle before the metal rings had been invented.
Most Piedmont blues musicians lived during the 1920s and 30s; there are very few left today, and most of them have changed the music slightly so it sounds a little different from the way it was played in the past.
www.unctv.org /piedmontblues/bforkids.html   (267 words)

  
 News at the Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation Events - Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation - Washington's ...
Techniques for learning, practicing and playing Piedmont blues guitar, working with songs in different keys such as John Hurt's Stagolee in D and Spike Driver Blues in G, Railroad Bill or Freight Train in C, etc..
She has taught popular week-long blues piano workshops at numerous heritage music camps throughout the US and has also coached individuals for over fifteen years.
In addition, those of us who have been fortunate enough to participate in a class or workshop with her know that she is also a compelling teacher with a great knowledge for her art and the business that accompanies it.
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 About the Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation- Washington's Home of the Piedmont Blues
Today the Barbershop, which was the first meeting place of the Washington, DC Blues Society, still functions as a teaching facility and headquarters of the Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation, a non-profit organization.
Bones" Thomas, Napoleon Brundage, NJ Warner, Eleanor Ellis and Miles Spicer continue to teach Piedmont blues and pass on the tradition.
Guitar and harmonica workshops are held regularly at the Barbershop, and every Saturday at 1:00 the public is invited -- musicians and non-musicians alike -- to participate in informal jam sessions, which have become well-known among local blues musicians.
www.acousticblues.com /about.html   (327 words)

  
 YEAR OF THE BLUES 2003
For more information on the blues in your neighborhood, check out your local blues society, or contact The Blues Foundation.
For a celebration of the year's best in blues, check out the 2004 W.C. Handy Awards, held in Memphis on April 29, 2004.
Lightning in a Bottle, the film of the Salute to the Blues Concert, is being released in theaters this October, 2004.
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 UNC-TV Online: Watch and Listen Webcasts:
As the guitar replaced the banjo as the lead instrument and songs were picked from the strings rather than strummed, an energetic voice emerged that began to sweep through the Southeast, and it was called Carolina blues, or Piedmont blues.
Piedmont blues differed from the tradition blues that lulled a sad, longing story and picked up the pace, peppy enough for people to dance to it.
The sound, because it was played with guitar and After World War II, the electric guitar began to replace the acoustic guitar, and the blues picked up an influence from the 1950 rock 'n roll.
www.unctv.org /webcast/music/fw_piedmont_blues.html   (167 words)

  
 Little Joe McLerran, Piedmont blues to Colorado....NEWS
Seven years ago the family moved to Tulsa, Okla., where Joe adopted the name "Son Piedmont" and immersed himself in the acoustic Piedmont blues style of the '20s and '30s.
If you're an early riser in Tulsa, you were treated to a special live Piedmont blues music concert by Little Joe and Robbie Mack on Tulsa, Oklahoma's KOTV - 6, during a special segment that aired on the January 16th edition of the Six In The Morning show.
The Galileo Bar and Grill was packed with Oklahoma Blues Society members and other blues lovers to witness the competition which would determine who would represent OBS at the 22nd Annual International Blues Challenge in Memphis on January 26-28, 2006.
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 Saturday Afternoons at the Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation- Washington's Home of the Piedmont Blues
Saturday Afternoons at the Archie Edwards Blues Heritage Foundation- Washington's Home of the Piedmont Blues
Everyone is welcome, whether you play an instrument or not.
Besides being a good time for everyone, Saturdays at the Barbershop allow the young to learn from the old and the Piedmont blues tradition to be passed down to the next generation.
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