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The Beach Institute Meets West Broad Street School: A Black Education in Savannah
Ships of the Sea Museum in cooperation with The King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation and the Savannah Black Heritage Festival presents The Beach Institute Meets West Broad Street School: A Black Education in Savannah, Friday, February 22, 2013. Presentation by Dr Annette K. Brock, chair of the board at King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation, and Vaughnette Goode-Walker, the current project consultant for the King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation.
Museum in the Moonlight, Assembly Dancers, 2012
A segment from the Assembly Dancers of North Carolina's performance of "The Physical Snob" at our "Museum in the Moonlight" event on November 10, 2012.
How to Play the Akonting with Sana Ndiaye Segment Three: Sana's Original Songs
Learn some akonting history and learn how to tune and play songs on this Senegambian ancestor of the banjo.
myspace.com/sanandiaye
gokhbisystem.com
http://shipsofthesea.org/pages/video-sana-akonting-info
How to Play the Akonting with Sana Ndiaye Segment Two: Advanced Playing Techniques and Songs
Learn some akonting history and learn how to tune and play songs on this Senegambian ancestor of the banjo.
myspace.com/sanandiaye
gokhbisystem.com
http://shipsofthesea.org/pages/video-sana-akonting-info
How to Play the Akonting with Sana Ndiaye Segment One: Introduction and Basic Playing Techniques
Learn some akonting history and learn how to tune and play songs on this Senegambian ancestor of the banjo.
myspace.com/sanandiaye
gokhbisystem.com
http://shipsofthesea.org/pages/video-sana-akonting-info
Erik Calonius on The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship
A lecture by Erik Calonius, writer of The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship at Ships Of The Sea Maritime Museum in Savannah, GA, August 2, 2011. This video was produced by Cosmos Mariner Productions.
Akonting Roundtable Segment Two: Some Recent Adaptations of the Akonting and Musical Examples
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.
http://shipsofthesea.org/pages/video-roundtable-info
Akonting Roundtable Segment One: The History and Music of the Akonting
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.
http://shipsofthesea.org/pages/video-roundtable-info
Chuck Levy in Concert
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
Canjo with Bob Zentz
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
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