Videos

Chuck Levy in Concert

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Florida Old-Time Banjo Champion and banjo scholar Chuck Levy in an informative, wide-ranging and entertaining concert given at the Museum on November 14th, 2009. Chuck plays banjonting (a banjo/akonting hybrid), fiddle, banjo-fiddle, mandoline-banjo and 5- and 6-string fretted and fretless banjos in a variety of styles. He also tells some banjo jokes.
www.banjourneys.com

Tony Cope: "On the Swing Shift in Savannah"

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In this video, Savannah native Tony Cope talks about his book "On the Swing Shift", which details the 45,000 workers who built eighty-eight Liberty ships in just four years at the almost-forgotten Southeastern Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard in Savannah. Tony’s talk is augmented with many rare photos.
www.ontheswingshift.wordpress.com

Akonting Roundtable Segment One: The History and Music of the Akonting

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Introduction, Biographies, and Table of Topics
A roundtable discussion on the akonting and related instruments held at the Suwannee Banjo Camp in March, 2009, with Sana Ndiaye, Chuck Levy, Paul Sedgwick, Greg C. Adams, John Catches and Tony Pizzo.

Akonting Roundtable Segment Two: Some Recent Adaptations of the Akonting and Musical Examples

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Introduction, Biographies, and Table of Topics
A roundtable discussion on the akonting and related instruments held at the Suwannee Banjo Camp in March, 2009, with Sana Ndiaye, Chuck Levy, Paul Sedgwick, Greg C. Adams, John Catches and Tony Pizzo.

How to Play the Akonting with Sana Ndiaye Segment One: Introduction and Basic Playing Techniques

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Introduction, Biography, Links, and Table of Topics
Learn some akonting history and learn how to tune and play songs on this Senegambian ancestor of the banjo.
myspace.com/sanandiaye
gokhbisystem.com

How to Play the Akonting with Sana Ndiaye Segment Two: Advanced Playing Techniques and Songs

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Introduction, Biography, Links, and Table of Topics
Learn some akonting history and learn how to tune and play songs on this Senegambian ancestor of the banjo.
myspace.com/sanandiaye
gokhbisystem.com

How to Play the Akonting with Sana Ndiaye Segment Three: Sana's Original Songs

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Introduction, Biography, Links, and Table of Topics
Learn some akonting history and learn how to tune and play songs on this Senegambian ancestor of the banjo.
myspace.com/sanandiaye
gokhbisystem.com

Canjo

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How to play the 4-string fretless banjo ("canjo") with Bob Zentz
Learn some banjo history and learn how to tune up and play songs in the "clawhammer" style on the Museum\'s simple homemade cookie-tin fretless "canjo."
www.bobzentz.com

Faux Marble

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March 2007
Ships of the Sea Museum, Savannah Georgia
Malcolm Robson, a fifth generation master grainer, marbled the walls and columns in the atrium and grained all of the doors and windows of the Museum\'s first and second floors in 1976. He returns periodically for maintenance and repair of his work. We were fortunate to be able to record his recent repair work on some water-damaged walls in the upper atrium to serve as an introduction to the techniques that he uses. We hope that you will find the 25 minute video that follows both informative and enjoyable.
www.robsonworldwidegraining.com