Videos tagged with Historical Music

This video features Clifton Hicks performing 'The Girl I Left Behind Me' on a fretless minstrel banjo. The content is a musical performance and does not contain instructional material or technical firearm information.

This YouTube video, titled "Was the Banjo Popular BEFORE the Civil War?", explores the historical prevalence of the banjo in the period leading up to the American Civil War. While primarily a historical and musical inquiry, the content provided through the description focuses on promoting the creator's Patreon, online courses, merchandise, and music across various platforms. The creator, Clifton Hicks, also accepts PayPal donations and offers YouTube channel memberships. The video's hashtags indicate a focus on banjo, bluegrass, Americana, and 432Hz frequencies, with no mention of firearms.

This video showcases a "Marching Through Georgia" recording played on an antique Edison Wax Cylinder Phonograph. The content focuses on historical audio technology and its playback, with links provided for Patreon support, banjo heritage courses, merchandise, streaming music, and donations. The video does not feature firearms, ammunition, or related topics.

This video features a performance of the 1889 composition "No More the Moon Shines on Lorena" by Louis Staab, played on the banjo. The description highlights the piece's historical context and provides extensive links to the performer Clifton Hicks' various platforms for supporting his work, including Patreon, SubscribeStar, Bandcamp, and Spotify. It also promotes his "Banjo Heritage" online course and merchandise.

This video features a clawhammer banjo lesson titled 'Coon Hunt Walkaround,' with a historical context pre-dating 1865. The lesson includes details on tuning (eAEG♯B actual / gCGBD relative) and mentions the tune's first appearance in Frank Converse's banjo tutors from the 1860s. The instructor learned it at a Civil War reenactment in Florida around 1999 and developed his version by ear, noting its similarity to Converse's original notation. Links for tab, additional platforms (SubscribeStar, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes), merchandise, and payment options (PayPal, Venmo) are provided.

This video features Clifton Hicks demonstrating a colonial-era gourd banjo at Blue Ridge Community College in 2018. He performs the traditional dance tune "Hook & Line" on a reproduction of an early gourd banjo. The description includes extensive lists of related musicians, musical styles, and historical contexts, as well as various links for supporting the artist's work.

This video features Clifton Hicks performing a banjo piece titled "Shut Up In the Mines of Coal Creek." The description provides historical context about the Fraterville Mine disaster of 1902 in Tennessee, which tragically claimed 216 lives. It details the suspected cause of the explosion and mentions the burial site of some victims. The description also includes various links for supporting the artist through Patreon, purchasing merchandise, and accessing his music on Bandcamp, Spotify, and iTunes, along with payment options like Venmo and PayPal.

This video features Clifton Hicks playing a song titled "Southern Texas" on a c. 1910 Weymann five-string banjo, tuned f# DGAD. The lyrics depict a narrative involving joining cowboys, encountering "Indians," and reflecting on family. The description also includes links to his Patreon, Bandcamp, Spotify, iTunes, and Venmo, alongside hashtags related to banjo and old-time music. While firearms are mentioned in the lyrics and in the context of the narrative (pistols, riding, cowboys), there is no actual firearm content, demonstration, or discussion of firearm models, calibers, or manufacturers.