Nora Brown - Brooklyn Americana 2020 Music Festival
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- Опубликовано: 24 дек 2024
- Nora Brown started learning music at the age of 6 from the late Shlomo Pestcoe.
From his studio apartment in Brooklyn, Pestcoe instilled in her the belief that music is meant to be shared.
Nora plays old-time traditional music with a particular interest in eastern
Kentucky and Tennessee banjo playing. Along with the banjo, she’s interested in techniques of unaccompanied ballads from the Southeast region of the United States.
She has played at numerous venues and festivals on the East Coast including TEDsalon in NYC, Joe’s Pub, the Floyd Radio Show, Washington Square Park FolkFestival, Brooklyn Folk Festival, Brooklyn Americana Festival, Oldtone Roots Music Festival, Irvington Folk Festival, Summer & Winter Hoots at the Ashokan Center, and has had multiple month long residencies at famed Barbès in Brooklyn NY.
Nora has taught both beginning and advanced banjo classes at the Ashokan Center’s long standing old-time camp known as Southern Week in Olivebridge, NY. Nora continues to travel and learn from old masters and has taken regular trips to eastern Kentucky to visit with 90 year old master banjo player and former coal miner Lee Sexton and master banjo player and historian George Gibson.
Nora has won numerous banjo and folk song competitions at various fiddlers conventions including the Clifftop Appalachian String Band Music Festival and Grayson County Old-time and Bluegrass Fiddlers Convention.
In October 2019 Jalopy Records released Nora’s first album of 11 traditional songs and tunes called Cinnamon Tree. It was produced by the legendary Alice Gerrard and pressed by Third Man Pressing in Detroit. It’s only available on limited edition vinyl with a digital download and liner notes. Cinnamon Tree landed #7 on the Billboard Bluegrass Charts the 2 nd week of its release. Nora plays solo regularly and also as duet with fiddler Stephanie Coleman and fiddler Jackson Lynch.
“[In her playing,] an intense involvement is revealed as the music appears to
wash over her. She sings of experiences way beyond her years, old songs from Appalachian sources, stories that reflect a more difficult way of life.”
- John Cohen (Musicologist, photographer, filmmaker and founding
member of the New Lost City Ramblers)
“Little Nora Brown has a host of roots music legends pouring out of her fingertips and through her lips. - The Bluegrass Situation
I love this music. Not only she continues the folk tradition through her own expression but puts the time to study and research it. A young balladeer and scholar, brilliant musicologist in the making. Such talent gives one hope. Thank you, Nora.
It's wonderful to see someone of her generation into old time banjo picking
A HUGE PURE JOY...I can't believe my eyes and ears. Pure Joy.
Nora you are so appreciated with your DEEP soul and spirit filled talents.
Your angles of beauty is top tier beauty, and your looks are mysterious and mesmerizing.
THANK YOU for sharing SO MUCH.
I feel alive because of you sharing with all of us.
You are a "world treasure."
🎶🙏🌸🌻💚🧚♀️
Keep coming back to this video every once in awhile. It's just too good! Thank you Nora. You are so lucky to have learned from some of the best there ever were. Still waiting to find your first album on vinyl, I have the other two and they get played often! You are blessed. -Z
I'm sure the rainy weather is making the banjos really unstable I loved it all Thank you.
Nora is unbelievable. Never heard anything like this girl on the banjo she rocks the house like Led Zeppelin
The rain in the background is lovely with your music.
I'm not even a big fan of banjo music, and yet this genuine girl fascinates me. Nora, you share this part of your inner world with us in a unique way. Your music is truly beautiful, wish you tons of luck wherever life takes you!
She sure plays from the heart. I've never heard anyone play the banjo with such a light touch either.
You should be a fan of banjo music.
Maybe you've been under the misunderstanding that banjo is strictly for bluegrass? Look for clawhammer, old-time, and or folk banjo music.
Mm
Hands down old timey is my favorite banjo playing. No resonator needed.
i love that the rain picked up during wild goose chase. What a great ambience for those harmonics
maks my heart cry tears of joy. pretty much a perfect thang. What do they teach kids in school anyway?
Wonderful! Just stumbled on this and was surprised to hear the "Jay Gould's Daughter" verses instead of the "Milwaukee Blues" verses that seem more common here in sw Virginia. I think I first heard the Gould's Daughter version from Pete Seeger, Utah Phillips and other pro-labor (pro-hobo!) northern singers, while my Virginia and North Carolina friends probably heard it first on the old Charlie Poole record. Great to play with you, Nora, in a couple of jams at Augusta a few years ago, and I'm blown away by how much you're learning and teaching, year after year!
Great talent and music love it 🙂.music shoukd be about painting a picture with words youve done this beautifully.Hello from Ireland
An old soul in a young body.
I love that when Nora plays she seems to have all the time in the world
Listening to Nora is a way to be up while locked down.
Wow oh Wow
Nora you are doing some great works since this video was made, please do keep doing that, but please remember your beginnings that gave you your chance to let your talent show through like a ray of sunlight.
Nora is a joy to listen to and evidently is quite an expert in this genre of music. Although I feel she lacks a bit of confidence as a public performer, the quality of her playing and her vocals shine through. Keep up the good work Nora and if you ever venture to play in my locality (i.e. North West England) I will come to see and support you. 💗
Bravo! You're a prodigy of American traditional music.
I love your music. Hope to see you live on stage sometime over here in England
She’s here end of May. Both shows sold out! Glad you like her Chris!
Really enjoyed this, even with the wind and rain adding cool vibe to the atmosphere :)
Rain without even adding it purposely.
Thor favors the divine of morale.
Always with the cool settings and back ground noises.
Big fan of Nora's. Her style brings a different dimension to the banjo. She's growing into a very lovely young woman and accomplished artist.
so excited to see what she produces in the future
Powerful visions, pleasant moments..
brilliantly lovely.
I appreciate this young person so much. Talented and connected to her art.
I have never been into banjo before. I am now.
Thank you
So nice... really down to earth, connected, and just nice. Major respect and props!
Your playing and singing is wonderful ,You have a new fan! I am just starting out with claw hammer, , very inspired by your playing
Awesome!
Keep it going, love seeing young people play this music
agreed
your a great player and singer keep it going
Wow
Anyone know what tuning she’s in for the first tune???
perfect mastery of the instrument but what sadness in this music for depressive
Gosh I don't find it depressing at all.
wow banjo can have a soul :O
Love it !
Amazing, great atmosphere
Good stuff.
Is she 16 or 60? Or somehow both at the same time?
Are you planning on pressing anymore or doing a CD release of the album? Was gutted to have missed it!
Brilliant !
Does anyone know the second song?
The Very Day I’m Gone
How did she learn that so young? Blows my mind.
What is the name of the first song she plays
Jay Gould's Daughter
@@emmaa4680 Thank you.
Hi there getting it ,Frankie very good getting there Ta again superb ! . Ta again.t.c./ p/j
Okay. Watching this I REALLY believe in reincarnation. Some old picker dude (or dudette) died a few years before this little girl was born and took a new body... just gotta be. Otherwise she has to be like Mozart: child prodigy...
WILL YOU MARRY ME???❤
Ethereal. Like Charlie Parr.
Trump2024
If you mean in jail by 2024 I'm all for it.
Well Curtis, I feel sorry for you. Your parents failed to educate you, your schools failed to educate you, and because of that, your life is going to be pretty sad.
Man people get worked up