Hunter Robertson – Old-Timey Music for Body & Soul

A gig at The Cellar Upstairs, Saturday, October 16th, 2010. Exmouth Arms, Starcross Street, London NW1 2HR, England (on the corner of Cobourg Street, near Euston and Euston Square stations).

I’ll be performing and doing clawhammer banjo workshops at the Sweet Sunny South Old Time American Music Festival next September (2010 that is. Weekend of the 10th to the 12th) in Hastings, East Sussex, England. Get you banjos sharpened up and come one, come all!

There are a bunch of videos up on youtube from my performance at Moseley Folk Festival earlier this year, here’s one, a clawhammer version of ‘Old Joe Clark’:

6 October 2009 (pre blog, thus the date)

My recent show at Walthamstow Folk was a lot of fun. First of all, my host and the organizer, Russ Chandler (being a fellow banjo player) and I spent the afternoon talking shop and examining his beautiful classic banjos. We eventually made our way to the pub for the show, which was a nice format, with people doing floor spots before I played and at the intermission – a very civilized practice. The music was excellent and it was almost as if I was attending a concert myself! The people were participants rather than simply observers, getting up on stage and playing and singing and joining in on other’s choruses.  Pete Stanley came down and played a couple of tunes, one on a minstrel style banjo he had made and another on a gorgeous Clifford Essex. If this was typical of British folk clubs I’ll be looking forward to doing more gigs in them.