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The Magic Banjo
Michael J. Miles
The Magic Banjo
Genre: Folk
 
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This recording features the music from Miles' one man show, The Magic Banjo, which has been featured at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, and for an extended run at Chicago's renowned Pegasus Players Theatre. A...  more »

     
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All Artists: Michael J. Miles
Title: The Magic Banjo
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: Right Turn On Red Music
Original Release Date: 4/3/1999
Release Date: 4/3/1999
Genre: Folk
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 791022105421

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This recording features the music from Miles' one man show, The Magic Banjo, which has been featured at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, and for an extended run at Chicago's renowned Pegasus Players Theatre. A musical portrait, The Magic Banjo is a one-person theatrical piece in four scenes, featuring musical and written works of Pete Seeger, Carl Sandburg, Woody Guthrie, Walt Whitman, Johann Sebastian Bach and others. It also includes hilarious, fictitious moments in history celebrated in episodes of "And the banjo was there." Seven different banjos are used including a Vega Whyte Ladye built in the 1800's, an octagon fretless, a Civil War minstrel banjo and an African 3-string Halam carved from a tree trunk. The sounds include folk songs, ragtime, union songs, train songs, and a few of Miles' own compositions. The recording features Miles superb musical skills. He has been voted one of America's top ten clawhammer banjo players by a Banjo Newsletter Reader's Survey.

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CD Reviews

The most brilliant banjo player in the world.
11/16/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)

"This 21 track cd is a banjo lovers dream, with a wide and deep selection of Miles art. Beautifully recorded, it is a one disk encyclopedia of what the banjo can do. Miles has truely expanded the horizons and potential of the instrument, and taken his art to a new level. Suggest that anyone interested in the banjo should also be interested in Miles' American Bach and his first CD, Counterpoint."