Banjo, Blues & Beyond / Mary Z Cox & Ellen Scruggs Sheppard


Please join two time Florida & North Carolina banjo champion & recording artist, Mary Z Cox for an evening of mountain music & beyond with panhandle recording artist, guitarist & mandolinist, Ellen Scruggs Sheppard. Besides traditional & untraditional picking there will be sweet & sour harmony vocals, fast fiddle tunes, blues, Celtic, bluegrass and did I mention THERE
WILL BE BARITONE BANJO!
Ellen has recorded her dancing mandolin and solid guitar on 3 of Mary Z’s CDs: Florida Banjo, Banjo Dreamin’ Suwannee Nights & Girl With the Banjo Tattoo & they will be playing and singing some tunes from them and also tunes from Mary Z’s latest CD, Good Morning Banjo, which was played last summer on NPR’s Thistle & Shamrock.
Mary Z & Ellen have played and sung traditional music together since they were girls and won an award in the Tennessee Valley Fiddlers Convention for their old time singing version of “The Cuckoo.” This was a big contest which attracted professional musicians from Nashville. They will be kicking off this tune near the beginning of the 1 st set. Please come by 8 pm to hear it.
This is going to be a really fun evening at the Blue Tavern & hope you will come and join us in the camaraderie of live picking & song.