non-Dixieland, non-Celtic tenor banjo

Subject: non-Dixieland, non-Celtic tenor banjo
From: GUEST,just a-passin' through
Date: 22 Jul 15 - 10:03 PM

Looking for tenor banjo music in folk styles other than Dixieland-style jazz (or jazz at all, really) or Irish/Celtic jigs and reels, etc.

Are there country/folk players I can look into?

I suppose ragtime is technically a jazz style... sigh. I hate labels.

I'm just really looking for ballads, sentimental or funny songs... things I can play in my busking act. Sort of Uncle Dave Macon and John Hartford meet Jimmy Durante.

Subject: RE: non-Dixieland, non-Celtic tenor banjo
From: Will Fly
Date: 23 Jul 15 - 04:05 AM

Tried French stuff? Check out my YouTube vids:

Boum

Au Revoir (J'attendrai)

La Vie en Rose

There's a load of free tab and arrangements I've made at my website:

Will Fly

Subject: RE: non-Dixieland, non-Celtic tenor banjo
From: Will Fly
Date: 23 Jul 15 - 04:06 AM

Tried French stuff? Check out my YouTube vids:

Boum

Au Revoir (J'attendrai)

La Vie en Rose

There's a load of free tab and arrangements I've made at my website:

Will Fly

Subject: RE: non-Dixieland, non-Celtic tenor banjo
From: Leadfingers
Date: 23 Jul 15 - 05:43 AM

There are innumerable tunes that are neither Jazz nor Celtic that you could use a tenor banjo on

Subject: RE: non-Dixieland, non-Celtic tenor banjo
From: Jack Campin
Date: 23 Jul 15 - 04:50 PM

Rob MacKillop, Bach on the banjo:

Scores for Cello Suites I-III

Subject: RE: non-Dixieland, non-Celtic tenor banjo
From: Jack Campin
Date: 23 Jul 15 - 04:51 PM

MacKillop playing Cello Suite no. I

Subject: RE: non-Dixieland, non-Celtic tenor banjo
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jul 15 - 05:04 AM

Mento (Jamaican)
It uses tenor banjo, it's funny, and it's used for busking.

Stanley Beckford

Subject: RE: non-Dixieland, non-Celtic tenor banjo
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jul 15 - 05:21 AM

Zimbabwean

Subject: RE: non-Dixieland, non-Celtic tenor banjo
From: PHJim
Date: 24 Jul 15 - 07:42 AM

I like to play old pop songs from the twenties and thirties with our jug band: Boodle-Am-Shake, Sweet Sue, Five Foot Two/Please Don't Talk About Me, Somebody Stole My Gal, I'm Satisfied With My Gal, Walkin' My Baby Back Home, Lindberg Hop. . .
Some bluesy tunes like They're Red Hot and St. James Infirmary work well too.

Subject: RE: non-Dixieland, non-Celtic tenor banjo
From: Rex
Date: 24 Jul 15 - 10:51 AM

There's plenty of fiddle tunes. That's mostly what I play on a tenor.

Rex