Traditional Music Performance & Classes
"A charismatic master whose knowledge of this repertoire is second to none."
~ NetRhythms
ABOUT JEFF DAVIS
BIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHY
Jeff Davis is one of America’s most respected collectors and interpreters of traditional music. He has traveled far to visit “source singers”--farmers and miners who remembered the old songs and tunes--and closer at hand to libraries and archives, always look for the best of the music that was once common in out towns and villages.
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Jeff Davis is one of America’s most respected collectors and interpreters of traditional music. He has traveled far to visit “source singers”--farmers and miners who remembered the old songs and tunes--and closer at hand to libraries and archives, always look for the best of the music that was once common in out towns and villages.
An event with Jeff might include New England ballads sea songs, African-American banjo tunes, cowboy ditties, rare Yankee fiddle tunes and more. You will “meet” singers and players from the North Carolina mountains and coast, Nova Scotia farmers, African-American sailors, New York loggers and many others.
PROGRAMS
BIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHY
See DESCRIPTIONS OF AVAILABLE PROGRAMS
Jeff Davis is one of the nation’s foremost performers, interpreters and collectors of traditional American folk music. There are a variety of options for performances, designed around themes such as immigration, the Civil War, westward movement, colonial days, settlement of the U.S., various parts of
See DESCRIPTIONS OF AVAILABLE PROGRAMS
Jeff Davis is one of the nation’s foremost performers, interpreters and collectors of traditional American folk music. There are a variety of options for performances, designed around themes such as immigration, the Civil War, westward movement, colonial days, settlement of the U.S., various parts of the U.S., American folk instruments, maritime, fiddling, and southern string band music. The programs are about the music in the history (vs. the history of the music.)
Jeff plays fiddle, banjo, mandocello, guitar, spoons, jaw’s harps and a few instruments hand-made by folk craftsmen. He has toured extensively throughout the United States and to festivals in Canada, England, Ireland, The Netherlands, and Norway. He recently released a solo album, Some Fabulous Yonder. He also worked on an English Anthology, called Song Links, of old English songs and their American variants.
BOOKINGS
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BOOKINGS
BOOKING: Book a PROGRAM with Davis through Young Audiences of Massachusetts or call 617.629.9262 for more information.
Many performances include demonstrations or tutorials. For example, a block and tackle (pulleys and ropes used to raise a sail) may be set up to demonstrate a Sea Shanty. workshops include hands-on activities (a musical
BOOKING: Book a PROGRAM with Davis through Young Audiences of Massachusetts or call 617.629.9262 for more information.
Many performances include demonstrations or tutorials. For example, a block and tackle (pulleys and ropes used to raise a sail) may be set up to demonstrate a Sea Shanty. workshops include hands-on activities (a musical spoons lesson, the singing of a sea-shanty while raising a “sail”), and highlight map skills and the idea of the folk process and oral tradition. A few new instruments are introduced, more singing, and much more time devoted to questions and answers."
BOOK Classes
BOOK an event with Davis through Young Audiences of Massachusetts or call 617.629.9262 for more information.
Contact Jeff Davis
Do you have questions, want to book a show, or collaborate on a new piece? Reach out, and let's make music happen!
42 Woodstock Meadows, Woodstock, CT 06281
CELLPHONE: 860.928.6668 | Fax: None at this time EMAIL: 46jeffdavis"at"gmail.com (replace "a" with @ symbol)
