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One of the tunes I grew up on. 5-string cello banjo in gCGCD.

"Hard Times" by Stephen Foster, played 2/3-finger style on a Bart Reiter Standard banjo with nylon strings, tuning gDGBD.

This is a Macedonian folksong that my stepdaughter Abigail and I did as part of a Christmas/Hanukka present for her mom. Abby sings with the Yale Slavic Chorus and has been schooling me in the various GREAT Eastern European choral traditions. We were in a hurry, since in the three hours Madame was out of the house we got the idea, came up with three tunes, rehearsed, recorded and burned CD's of them. So I accompanied using the bottom two (of three) parts, and overdubbed the melody in the intro and third verse, but as soon as I get a minute I'll get a solo tab up. There's a bunch of this stuff that would be gorgeous on the banjo. Oh - and the present was a huge hit.

a Mantovana is a sixteenth century song composed by the Italian tenor Giuseppe Cenci, also known as Giuseppino del Biado, (d. 1616). Its earliest known appearance in print is in del Biado's 1600 collection of madrigals. The melody, later also known as "Ballo di Mantova" or "Aria di Mantova" gained wide currency in Renaissance Europe, being recorded variously as the Scottish “My mistress is prettie,” the Polish “Pod Krakowem,” Spanish "Virgen de la Cueva" and the Ukrainian “Kateryna Kucheryava." It is best-known as the melody of Bedřich Smetana's The Moldau and of the Israeli national anthem Hatikvah. I added the third part, in case old Giuseppe lifted the original riff from a raga, which I - of course - suspect:)

This is a great piece to demonstrate the added sustain from a banjola. Ave Maria on a five-string. Gold Tone PC Banjola.

On a banjola. Trying to get the melody correct. Just starting on this in prep for Valentine's Day.

"Brahms op. 39 no. 15 in A", Bart Reiter Standard banjo, nylon strings, tuning aEAC#E. Arranged for banjo by Kevin Holmes.

"Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming", Grizzly kit banjo tuned aDADE, Rover RM-50 mandolin, violin

"Ding Dong Merrily on High", Bart Reiter Standard banjo, tuning gDGBD.

"The Holly and the Ivy", Bart Reiter Standard banjo (gDGBD), violin, Gold Tone banjola (gDGBD), 'cello

"Joy to the World", Bart Reiter Standard banjo w/nylon strings, tuning gDGBD.

Bonaparte crossing the Rhine as played by "The Old Grey Dogs" I chose to play this out of double C tuning as i love the bottom end of the banjo in this tuning. Hope you all enjoy i.t

canon in D

A song, i made for my son :-)

this is a waltz i composed for my wife Katja

This is a song i made when i got my first banjo, it was a goldtone bgf250, now i play a nechville athena, with a phantom neck.

this is my arrangement of the danish hymn h¿r det zion for alt din ve

I am messing around with a danish hymn !

This is to go with the TAB I uploaded here.

This is from my upcoming collection of Christmas carols for the banjo, due out the beginning of October. 19 old Christmas faves for solo banjo in notation and TAB. It'll be available at my website, and you can download the other MP3s now at CDBaby.com/Jocko. Enjoy! By the way, I'm new to Banjo Hangout, and I LOVE IT! There's more useful information here than I know what to do with!