Heart Strings

Florida Folk & Traditional US

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Orlando Folk Festival
2005

Orlando Folk Festival

Orlando Folk Festival
2005

Our Traditional Shows include

  • US Music from 1850s through 1930s
  • The Arkansas Traveller skit
  • Sing a-longs

We use the harp, banjo, guitar, percussion, and songs

Samples

Scullay's Reel - US/Irish reel
Tom Bigbee - US Traditional
Waly Waly/Water is Wide

"Ability to play the banjo soon places one
in a position to pick and choose
among scores of social invitations.
Everywhere, the banjoist is assured of a hearty welcome."
(from a 1927 Gibson catalogue)
I really enjoyed your performance yesterday -
I hope you will come back again!
Kathy Boyes, Palm Beach County Library System
Manager, Marketing and Community Relations

April 2006

Playing in the Park

Playing in the Park
December 2002

Florida Music includes


Courtship Dance of the Florida Sandhill Crane
(by Will McLean)

Gopher Stew a Marg & Bill tune
(for Fred Chauvin and Stuart Pacetti
)
Cracker Cowman a Frank Thomas song
Saltwater Waltz by Steve Wallace
This Land ~ Florida version by Marg & Bill

Marg Chauvin, harp & vocals
Bill Messer, guitar & vocals


Most selections are available as instrumentals
on our CDs

 

Updated June 26, 2007
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