MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2016



Old-Time String Band Jam at MIT

Peggy Conant, Jam Leader, Selene Victor, Jam Leader

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

This session has been reinstated!  To get meeting and session updates, please contact the pconant@mit.edu.

Before radio and before bluegrass, fiddles, banjos and guitars were being played throughout Appalaichia and in the southeastern states by people gathered on front porches and in dance halls to make their own fun.  These people passed on an enduring repertoire of tunes and a musical style which is still alive and well.  Today players from all over the US gather regularly to "jam," playing old and newly composed tunes in the style now referred to as old-time southern string-band music.  

If you play or if you just like to listen to traditional music played on fiddle, banjo and guitar, come to the Old-Time Music Jam at MIT!  

Contact: Peggy Conant, W92-203, 617 715-5142, PCONANT@MIT.EDU


Old-Time String Band Jam

Jan/05 Tue 06:30PM-08:00PM (CANCELED)
Jan/12 Tue 06:30PM-08:00PM 20-407, Contact leader to get session updates
Jan/19 Tue 06:30PM-08:00PM (CANCELED)
Jan/26 Tue 06:30PM-08:00PM Lobdell Dining Hall, Contact leader to get session updates

Peggy Conant - Jam Leader, Selene Victor - Jam Leader