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Arkansas Highlands Folk Project
United States
Приєднався 7 чер 2021
Dwight Diller, West Virginia Fiddle
In February, 2022, I had the pleasure of spending five days with Dwight Diller. I studied his banjo technique and we roamed Pocahontas County, WV to visit memories of his youth and the Hammonds Family history.
Dwight began teaching banjo in the early 1970s and has almost disappeared since 2014 due to health issues. Well...., he's back.
HIs teaching style is not for everyone. He can be harsh and very opinionated. This video captures his WV Fiddle technique and a bit Dwight's story. It's important to understand his story before pursuing him as a teacher. For me it was a wonderful experience.
Contact Dwight at dillerbanjo@hotmail,com for information about his teaching schedule.
Charlie Moore
Contact me at ArkHighlandsFolkProject@gmail.com
Dwight began teaching banjo in the early 1970s and has almost disappeared since 2014 due to health issues. Well...., he's back.
HIs teaching style is not for everyone. He can be harsh and very opinionated. This video captures his WV Fiddle technique and a bit Dwight's story. It's important to understand his story before pursuing him as a teacher. For me it was a wonderful experience.
Contact Dwight at dillerbanjo@hotmail,com for information about his teaching schedule.
Charlie Moore
Contact me at ArkHighlandsFolkProject@gmail.com
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Dwight Diller and the banjo, fiddle and old time music heritage he preserves and teaches. 2022
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An evening with Dwight Diller and banjo, 2022 In my efforts to find the roots of Arkansas Highlands (Ozarks and Ouachitas) music, I traveled to the Appalachians in hopes of visiting with a true Old Time music purist. As fate would have it, I ended up on Dwight Diller's front porch in West Virginia.. a long and fateful story for another post. From that multi-hour visit, we planned my return for ...
I went to a few banjo and fiddle camps in that room. Good memories!
Dwight will be missed. Thanks for your comment.
You're pretty lucky. Nobody plays Greasy Coat quite the way Dwight does. Somehow his technique with the fiddle captures the high lonesome sound of those modal tunes in a way I haven't heard from anyone else.