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About Me

Well, I have no band to speak of, so I'll give you a little bit about Patty!!I was born in 1957 and raised on the central coast of New Jersey in a little riverfront town of Rumson in Monmouth County. In 1994, I moved to Wake Forest, NC and have lived here since then. I became interested in the banjo when I was 20, but unfortunately didn't think I was capable of playing a musical instrument. In 2002, I attended Mt. Airy's fall festival and left there with the inspiration to learn the banjo and worked on 3 finger for a little under a year under the instruction of Julio Boysenberry. In 2003, I was up in Asheville, NC and heard clawhammer for the first time played by a good friend named Mike Long of OK. I left the mountains and within a day or two, walked into Donald Zepp's store and requested lessons from him. I've met some wonderful and kind folks along this musical journey. -Sat with Kirk Sutphin up at Mars Hill 2004 as well as up in Appomatix, VA at the 4-H Center. -Joe Newberry was very kind to accept my request to sit with him this past spring..Thank you Joe!! -Zepp also introduced me to Adam Hurt up at Mt. Airy, 2006. Got to spend a few moments with Adam as well as purchasing his 2nd CD up at Clifftop. Two wonderful projects by him. He also introduced me to Chris Coole whose tune, Sam's Dream, I've been working on. Chris was kind enough to sit with me up at Clifftop, 2006, and go over it. Thanks Chris! -I've also had the pleasure of sitting with Alan Julich of Stillhouse Bottom Band out of Durham/Chapel Hill, NC -Thorn Cary up in the Asheville area has been a recent influence for me in the summer of 2006 -Attended a workshop with Diane Jones in the summer of 2006 up at Lo and Mary Gordon's home in Cedar Mountain. Got a chance to take a look at Lo's banjo workshop during that time. I play a Ramsey Standard.Thank you, Donald Zepp, for accompanying me with your guitar on Darlin Nellie Grey..This profile was edited with Thomas' myspace editor™ V2.5

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Member Since: 8/16/2006
Influences: In no specific order: Donald Zepp, Joe Newberry, Kyle Creed, Adam Hurt, Chris Coole, Arnie Naiman, Alan Julich, Julio BoysenberryFIDDLE: Carl Jones, Bruce Green, JP Fraley, Bruce Molsky, James Bryan
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Latest Stuff

Been enjoying my banjo and fiddle daily. Last January, I had the opportunity to begin helping a friend build banjos. Great experience for me and enjoy the time immensely. Am getting...
Posted by Patty Forster on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:45:00 PST

Fiddle

The enjoyment and motivation is still blazing strongly to learn old time fiddle. The time playing it each and every new day brings about much satisfaction to me. I thoroughly enjoy Carl Jo...
Posted by Patty Forster on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 05:10:00 PST

Rockbridge, VA old time festival

WOW!!! What a GREAT time I had up at Rockbridge this past weekend. Gorgeous scenery surrounded the campground while the weather was splendid throughout the weekend. The weekend was filled ...
Posted by Patty Forster on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 06:16:00 PST

New Fiddle Arrived!

Exciting day for me as I received my first fiddle from Bob Smakula in WVA. It feels wonderful in my hands compared to the rental fiddle I was using. The action is lower and the f...
Posted by Patty Forster on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 02:19:00 PST

Fiddle Journey

Today was an exciting day for me as I had the opportunity to sit with Carl Jones, of Hillsborough, NC, and take my first fiddle lesson with him. What a wonderful gentleman he is....
Posted by Patty Forster on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 07:21:00 PST

New Fiddle

With the help of Joe Newberry, I purchased my first fiddle today. He had suggested I give Bob Smakula of Smakula Fretted Instruments [http://www.smakula.com/] from up in Elkins, W VA, a call. And...
Posted by Patty Forster on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 03:34:00 PST

Old time Musical Weekend Asheville - July- 2006

Friday, July 21, I headed up to Asheville to sit with a new clawhammer friend, Thorn Cary. After pitching my tent at Bear Creek Campground, I headed over to Thorn's. I had met him a week earlier...
Posted by Patty Forster on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:23:00 PST

Summer Vacation 2006

Just got in from a wonderful two week vacation. The first part of the trip was spent up in WVa for Clifftop. This was my first year there and I enjoyed the time there listening to music an...
Posted by Patty Forster on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:22:00 PST