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Chris Sands - Classic Ragtime Banjo

0	LONDON: Cecil Sharp House
P	Wednesday 22nd October, 2014
N	7:30pm

Event information

"Classic" Fingerstyle banjo was the sound of the Edwardian Britain.

Played with an intricate and demanding technique similar to that of classical guitar this style is very seldom heard these days.

From the 1890s to the First World War this tuneful, joyful music was massively popular in the concert stages, the music halls and the parlours of Britain and the US.

Chris Sands is the undisputed world virtuoso of the style today, and this is an extremely rare opportunity to hear him in a concert setting.

In this extraordinary event you have the chance to rediscover the glories of the rags, cakewalks, marches, jigs reels, polkas and popular songs that had your great grandma feeling frisky and which are ready to captivate and charm the twenty first century.

Chris will be accompanied by the sensational young banjo player and Royal College of Music graduate Elias Sibley.

This will be an extremely unusual and exciting evening of quite wonderful music.

See Chris on YouTube here https://www.youtube.com/user/chrissandsbanjo