20 Pieces From Briggs Banjo Instructor arranged for Ukulele Bk|CD

by Rob MacKillop

Learn fashionable and evocative tunes from 19th-century America! Originally collected for the fretless minstrel banjo, many of these tunes were taught to Tom Briggs in Southern plantations, and are the sound of a new, vibrant America. Mixing early Black banjo music, with European dances, a new popular music was born, which, in the following decades, would to mature into ragtime and jazz.

Rob MacKillop arranged these pieces for fingerstyle ukulele. They sound great on either a standard uke or on a banjo ukulele. The CD recording contains performances of all 20 pieces by Rob MacKillop on a banjo ukulele.

Includes Tablature
Format: Book/CD Set
ISBN13: 9780786683314
Series: Non-Series
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published: 12/28/2011

Song Title:

Briggs’ Breakdown
Briggs’ Corn Shucking Jig
Briggs’ Reel
Camptown Hornpipe
Carney Jig
Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
Circus Jig
Dance, Boatman, Dance
Dearest Mae
Ephraim’s Lament
Ethiopian Cracovienne
Hard Times
Jim Along Josey
Keemo Kimo
Lucy Neal
Mary Blane
Miss Lucy Long
Old Johnny Boker
Sebastopol Breakdown
The Congo Prince Jig