"Old Joe Clark" on banjo, Jaw "Jews" Harp by the Fiddling Thomsons at Durham Unitarian Church

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14 жыл бұрын

Thomson's web site - www.captainfiddle.com Recorded at the Durham, New Hampshire Universalist Unitarian Church, for a presentation of "Music in the Family." Band members Ryan and Brennish perform a banjo and Jaw "Jews" harp version of the "Old Joe Clark." Brennish is 12 years old. Besides fiddles, the Thomsons perform on banjo, accordion, mandolin, flute, tin whistle, Irish flute, jaw harp, wooden spoons, rhythm bones, foot percussion, cajun triangle, rub board, and more in traditional style. Visit the Captain Fiddle web site for information on performances by the Fiddling Thomsons, instructional videos, books, and recordings.

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@bezoticallyyours83 4 жыл бұрын

There's something just so energetic about this combo

@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim 22 күн бұрын

I know!!

@maryhairy1 2 жыл бұрын

2 of my most favourite instruments! Learning to play both

@ItsAshley08 6 жыл бұрын

Good old time country music here.

@marvelousworldoflila8546 4 жыл бұрын

Saw both of you today in Merrimac, MA and it was phenomenal. You both have such talent.

@RealYoungPhil 5 жыл бұрын

Why is this so daamn cool.

@deepanddirty1125 3 ай бұрын

Thats awesome. Cheers from Spain

@vingriffin67 10 жыл бұрын

I love this version. Its better than the other vids on u tube.

@baldwin1907 11 жыл бұрын

Just learning clawhammer style, and this was awesome! Sounds great in the modal tuning, yet isn't too hard for a beginner to learn. You make great videos, and my students love them, too. Thanks!

@blackwolf7250 2 жыл бұрын

Avec l'ambiance d'un feu de Camp c'est énorme, bravo👏👏

@yomeloaprieto 13 жыл бұрын

I'd been looking for this for a long time! thanks for this demonstration!!!

@69degreesnorth 13 жыл бұрын

I chipped my tooth too hehe. It's the most horrible sound in the world when the bow accidentally hits your teeth and it rings though your skull.

@clivejules6175 7 жыл бұрын

Did the same thing within the first hour of playing, but I was already hooked...

@thelegendofzeldageek6497 6 жыл бұрын

Jan Eirik Wold same thing happened to me

@Zhak7 3 жыл бұрын

😂 same

@dylanhaleyyou Жыл бұрын

Love it!

@danielabrams7587 8 жыл бұрын

boing boing boing boing!

@justforever96 6 жыл бұрын

Are people really so stupid they actually think the older one is "playing his banjo when the kid is trying to talk"? It's called "tuning", people. It's normal for a banjo. It takes a few minutes. It's standard for a performer to talk to the audience and chat and joke while they tune it so the audience doesn't get bored, or better, they have another performer talk or play a small solo to distract the audience from the technical, boring procedure of re-tuning the instrument. That's what they are doing here, the boy is keeping the audience occupied while his grandfather(?) retunes his banjo for a new song. Do you know how banjos work even? You can't just tune one and then leave it, you've got whole different ways to tune the strings for different songs. What exactly would you do differently? Then you have the people saying "he should have done a second take", like they've apparently never learned the difference between a live show and "live" KZfaq channel. This is a show they put on for some people, not for a camera. Someone happened to record it. You don't stop a live performance and say "oh, sorry, we'll take that from the top, we want out KZfaq video to be really good". At least you don't do that if you're not a total dick.

@keenanmillard2534 6 жыл бұрын

justforever96... Damn, I get it, I'm a musician but that was a rant and a half

@LexRexLibertarian 5 жыл бұрын

You make very good points but take some deep breaths! Lol

@Studio23brennishthomson 4 жыл бұрын

William Walker thanks for fighting the good fight

@topcodclips607 4 жыл бұрын

I know! Some people are just so dumb

@jonathanlewis6146 3 жыл бұрын

Hear me out, what if he; (now this is just a hypothetical) *Tuned it before the performance?*

@Augustinne Жыл бұрын

Great presentation! Enthusiastic!

@Music.cigars.2024 Жыл бұрын

I play accordion, bajo quinto, tololoche, drums, tuba, baritone, and trombone with that same energy and passion

@curiousgeorge555 14 жыл бұрын

Very entertaining! great stuff!

@juliocardona3014 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@REWHBLCAIN 14 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@DontbelatefordinnerBelle 6 жыл бұрын

New subscriber here. So enjoyed the little ditty and wow the jaw harp. Made my day friends. Thank you. Belle.

@Stray1One 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant cheers men

@JohnKitner 11 жыл бұрын

good job dad and son good job that's the kind of stuff we would do around the camp fire at night in the summer time. once in a while you would hear a bird sing along in the night in the dark thats unusal.

@kylebarcomb6192 3 жыл бұрын

If your ever in vermont again stop by on sundays in west townshend store we play muslic allday

@DanDDirges 7 жыл бұрын

Outstandin! I been trying to figure out how to play that dag gum jaw harp but I just hyperventilate and get light headed.

@jerryonblulife1745 5 жыл бұрын

Dan D. Dirges buy ya a good one. those cheap hobby store harps don't make a sound. you wouldn't believe the difference

@_deepinthought_5668 4 жыл бұрын

you don't have to breathe hard, just do it occasionally and it sounds descent

@JohnKitner 11 жыл бұрын

good job

@pappakustaa1055 4 жыл бұрын

I was just wandering, this song they played, was it in some Sid Meiers game? Railroad Tycoon. or Colonization?

@RDRJJ Жыл бұрын

Guy on the left looks like a jolly good fellow

@raquelschenone5073 9 жыл бұрын

How can we book you guys??

@Bradstercollie 12 жыл бұрын

Nice playin'--good job y'all. I couldn't help but notice that banjo is in a modal tuning. (sounds like double C or in y'all's case double D on account of the capo). Never heard Old Joe Clark played in that tuning before. Love it! :3

@kylebarcomb6192 3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@Ghaztly_Gold 4 жыл бұрын

*I was 3 at the time*

@GuiSolaris 3 жыл бұрын

viiiiibesss

@1987Psyco1987 10 жыл бұрын

oh man ich finds so geil....

@david_8261 5 жыл бұрын

Ich auch

@comradesusiwolf1599 3 жыл бұрын

ja wunderbaar

@angelinaramirez8736 5 жыл бұрын

getting married to this song

@rhythmfield 5 жыл бұрын

Angel Lynn you might be better off marrying a human rather than a song - but I guess songs don’t talk back, stay out all night etc?

@longhairgaloot1 11 жыл бұрын

figures it is in a UU church

@mariahrivera6728 5 жыл бұрын

What genre would this fall under? I love this kind of music.

@2Jeffrey 5 жыл бұрын

@wenderia7990 4 жыл бұрын

Bluegrass most likely.

@iam1smiley1 4 жыл бұрын

Techno or folk

@colinhurst4636 4 жыл бұрын

Blue grass

@KHbanjo 2 жыл бұрын

Old time

@michaell6592 3 жыл бұрын

that’s me

@toyota420xp 2 жыл бұрын

Where in vermont did you get it i am in vermont

@4stringjoe 2 жыл бұрын

At the Bennington Battle Monument gift store. Thanks for writing.

@michaell6592 3 жыл бұрын

this is me

@ilmunaifi 10 жыл бұрын

Great music what do they call it if i may ask

@factsnotfeelings4901 7 жыл бұрын

bluegrass

@davem9132 5 жыл бұрын

Sorry but this is old time mountain music. Clawhammer banjo and jawharp. Not bluegrass

@lukequinlan4523 4 жыл бұрын

@@davem9132 mountain music is another name for bluegrass

@dorkthrone 2 жыл бұрын

@@lukequinlan4523 I grew up in middle Appalachia 1 county over from where the stanley brothers lived, and Bluegrass was always just called Bluegrass. Mountain music was just a catchall for any kind of folk music.

@steinardahlenvidnes3999 8 жыл бұрын

Hi guys , are you hitting the jewharp forward ? and not backward ?? i have seen a lot of video and tried .(still learning) And the best way i must say is to hitting it backward. .... However cool video .

@shoesalad5180 8 жыл бұрын

I learned by sweeping my hand out from my cheek, or foreword, and it works a lot better for me personally,

@bootsontheground4913 6 жыл бұрын

It works best forward

@johnreyes7482 6 жыл бұрын

Steinar Dahlen Vidnes

@LexRexLibertarian 5 жыл бұрын

I prefer forward!

@rhythmfield 5 жыл бұрын

It seems like serious professional players strike the tine “backward“ or in toward the cheek. It seems to get a stronger, clearer sound. That said, I am a beginner also, and I also like playing out/away from the face, just feels more natural.

@AdeptusBroskis 5 жыл бұрын

i’m not sure how this is on my recommended

@AndHeWalksAway 11 жыл бұрын

Hahahah hell yeah man!!!

@michaell6592 3 жыл бұрын

this looks just like me

@justaskmike4602 Жыл бұрын

Had a Jew’s harp as a kid.

@rootpotato Жыл бұрын

I believe that's "Sex and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll" . . . Oh no, another copyright lawsuit looms!

@anonymoususer502 4 жыл бұрын

‘Fiddling church’ - Definitely not a Catholic Church then! 😉😂

@cathys465 11 ай бұрын

banjo is too loud.

@KaladinVegapunk 5 жыл бұрын

these guys are great musicians, although ive always thought its pretty messed up to brainwash young kids in a church before they have a chance to decide for themselves, it messed up a lot of people i grew up with, they can barely function socially, are totally oblivious and awkward about basic biology or natural things like nudity, and are sometimes super oppressed and rabid about other peoples myths, which are so arbitrary, just people from different cults arguing with other cults about what to name their sky god, the kids obviously shy doing this live but he did shred on that thing i know thats neither here nor there, dont mean to bring that up on a video about music, my apologies wasn't meaning to be rude

@beeezeee1783 5 жыл бұрын

Odin Satanas shut up

@Studio23brennishthomson 4 жыл бұрын

I’m the kid from the video, that’s a Unitarian church, and I’m agnostic hippie who’s loves skinny dipping.

@WhatAHorribleNight 4 жыл бұрын

I'm the old man from the video, and I love fondling Brennish' ass while burying my mustache into his gooch.

@BirthQuakeRecords 3 жыл бұрын

Sometimes people play music in churches because they are big rooms with lots of seating. I’ve played in churches. It doesnt have anything to do with religion. It’s just a room. You’ve got no reason to believe this kid is being brainwashed by a cult just cause he’s in the building on off hours.

@dorkthrone 2 жыл бұрын

@@Studio23brennishthomson hey, you're not kidding, you are the kid from the video. Glad to see you're still making music!