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Banjo or Song or Dance…..

May 26, 2012

The workshop staff at the Banjo Rehabilitation Center are all encouraged to study performance on stringed instruments, so we will understand the challenges of customers who purchase BRC banjos. Our Senior Vice-President of Sales has elected, however, to explore music studies in voice. In the attached training clip, she skillfully demonstrates the rigors of daily warm-up and singing exercises. We welcome and admire her role-modeling of pioneer spirit in this chosen field which brings new artistry to the BRC workplace. Is this tomorrow`s high lonesome sound? She`s got the pipes…

Despite a busy schedule also serving as tour guide for the BRC Museum, our senior VP of Sales finds time to experiment with interpretive dance as pulsed by the music of her father and grandfather. Is this tomorrow`s contra dancer? She`s got the footwork….

We hope someday our young VP of Sales will grow-up and sing mezzo soprano for the BRC founder`s jam band when they intone “Sittin` Alone in the Moonlight” as heard on the below video clip. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM6zuYM-3w0

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Banjo twang heard in faraway Lands

May 8, 2012

Not surprisingly, the banjo has figured its way into the Israeli music scene as evidenced by this cover photo on an entertainment guide published recently in Tel Aviv.

Although the not too distant Dead Sea is the lowest place on earth (400 meters below sea level), the BRC founder uplifts himself by reading the Banjo Newsletter while mud bathing on the Jordanian shoreline.

P.S. Shoppers  check-out the BRC banjo on e-bay May 12th-19th (sold).

BRC Events

June 13, 2012– International Banjo Wife`s Day

April 7, 2012

The BRC Board of Directors has mandated that every June 13th, starting in 2012, will hereafter be known as International Banjo Wife`s Day in recognition of the courageous patience of those legions of saintly women married to banjo playing husbands. Attached is a photo of the 2012 poster-girl competition winner who has endured 40 years of marriage to a banjo player with as many as 14 banjos in her house.

She is pictured donning a desert safari hat as she readies to enter the deeply tunneled crypt of King Tut in Egypt`s stony Valley of the Kings where she prays no banjos will be among the treasures therein. To salute the untold virtues of banjo wives, all banjo husbands will still their instruments in a respectful moment of silence worldwide from 4:00-4:01 am Greenwich Time on this date annually.

 

 

As illustrated, wives may apply a loving headlock to husbands as a gentle reminder of this yearly observance. On June 14th, there will be a smaller, but no less important, celebration on behalf of those heroic men whose wives play the banjo.

 

 

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A Banjo Tinkerer’s Reverie

February 5, 2012

In tune with each dour note of the global economic turn-down, the Banjo Rehabilitation Center continues to eke out rebuilt bargain banjos while braving its own deficit budget. Brightening the cloudy fiscal clime of the workshop, the BRC founder routinely inlays each restored instrument with our mother of pearl identifier as seen in the two pictured clawhammer banjos sold on e-Bay: one with a scooped fretboard, and another with a carved heel. To cheer himself, the BRC founder wistfully entertains the notion that someday in the future, a fledgling banjo owner might glance at the BRC logo and momentarily wonder if it stands for “Barry’s Recent Creation.” Alas, perchance to dream.

 

 

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Enriching the artful climate of the BRC workplace

January 9, 2012

Although the Banjo Rehabilitation Center  is exclusively a “banjo shop”,  our sturdy little CEO sagaciously promotes musical diversity to enrich the artful climate of the workplace. In the attached informal photo,  the CEO gently instructs the grandfatherly BRC founder on the modal features of the Mixolydian scale by using the harmonica as a teaching tool. During this back porch tutorial, the CEO points-out  that the harmonica (as played by Jimmy Fadden) was seamlessly merged into the Bluegrass ensemble as heard on the  ground-breaking double album “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” released  a generation ago. Because of his progressive commitment to staff education and respect for history, the CEO quietly reaffirms to all his richly deserved place in the BRC Hall of Fame and Book of Life.