Autoharp Day at The American Museum, Bath, 7 July

To Bath, this coming weekend, for the UK Autoharp Association day at the American Museum...
http://www.americanmuseum.org/

The autoharpers are to be part of the Americana Festival
http://www.americanmuseum.org/default.cfm/loadindex.295

July 7
'Courses & Workshops: Autoharp Workshops with Mike Fenton

12noon-5pm Drop-in workshops and performances will be offered throughout the afternoon on this uniquely American instrument. If you've ever wanted to play an autoharp - or even just wondered what one is - then come along and give it a try. No registration required.'

Of course the autoharp is not an 'uniquely American' instrument.  But it has become a sort of folk instrument in the USA, partly because of its association with the Carter family.


Our slow jam organiser Bob Ebdon has created a Carter family songbook for the occasion.

For more on Bob Ebdon see
www.bobebdon.co.uk

For more on Mike Fenton see
http://www.harperscraft.com/

For more on the UK Autoharp Association see
http://www.ukautoharps.org.uk/

I seem to have signed myself up for a little display.  I am a bit worried.  I am not a natural soloist.  This damnable shyness of mine...

Might try to do some Woody Guthrie - Americana, surely?
http://www.woodyguthrie.org/

It's the 100th anniversary of his birth - 1912-2012
http://www.woody100.com/

Here is Wilco's version of The Jolly Banker
http://wilcoworld.net/#!/roadcase/the-jolly-banker/