Black Twig Pickers: Square dancing via cell phone, and links, links links!
A bit of recent dance action at the Floyd Country Store, recorded via cell phone part-way into a Black Twig Pickers set, can be seen here and here. "Unabashed mania" was Nathan's description, and I think it's a good one.
Also, this weekend is the Charlie Parr-Black Twig Transmutation Travelers Virginia rampage through Roanoke, Blacksburg and Charlottesville. Here are various pertinent links (some of which were sort of buggy in various emails that've gone out, sorry): a bit of Charlie playing "God Moves on the Water" last month in L.A., a Minnesota Public Radio interview about Charlie's newest album, "Jubilee," with some in-the-studio playing, a live "Miner's Lament" from the UK last year, and of course Charlie's site.
Also, here's a website for the Thorntons, or the Ephraim Vause Memorial Stringband, as they like to be known, who are playing at Saturday's house party with Charlie and the Twigs.
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