More Great Fiddle Tunes

Product Description John Stowell is known internationally as a musician with a unique approach to guitar supported by a sophisticated harmonic concept. John has been performing solo guitar concerts for over thirty years and has captivated audiences all over the world. This DVD captures an intimate performance of his original compositions in the same format as his solo concerts, and demonstrates John's daringly original approach to improvised music. This collection of original compositions allows the listener to follow the development of John's ideas and organizational principles, both creating progressions of chords and creating progressions of colors and rhythms. In his compositions John often succeeds in reaching a pint where the goal, as composer Paul Dukas put it, is not to create dissonances but "make multiple resonances vibrate." The combination of John's interesting compositions and enjoyable and inspiring performances make this a unique opportunity to experience both composed and improvised ideas from a master musician. About the Actor Murphy Henry, co-founder (with her husband Red) of The Murphy Method, teaches banjo, guitar, mandolin, and ukulele. She's been teaching almost as long as she has been playing. Murphy grew up singing in church and taking piano lessons. She learned how to play guitar during the folk boom, and quickly taught her sisters to play, so that she'd have someone to play with. In college (University of Georgia) she played at coffeehouses with just her guitar until, on the recommendation of Florida folksinger Gamble Rogers, she went to her first bluegrass festival and decided that she wanted to play bluegrass. She learned how to play bass so that she could take a job with Betty Fisher and the Dixie Bluegrass Band. But she quickly realized that the bass player doesn't get nearly the attention that the banjo player does, so she settled on the banjo as the instrument for her. She met future-husband Red at a bluegrass festival and not long after she graduated from UGA (with a degree in food science--of all things!) they married and started their own band--Red and Murphy and Co. Based in Gainesville, Fla., from the mid-seventies until 1986, Red and Murphy played on the southeastern festival circuit, as well as at a lot of Florida bars and clubs. They produced seven albums and two children: Casey, in 1978, and Christopher, in 19