I ran across an interesting website that talked about the discovery of a Neanderthal flute that is 60,000 years old making it the oldest flute ever discovered. I don't have the background to dispute this claim, but if it be true the flute is...
This video Highlights the In-Person pat of Bones Fest XXVI and include backyard and in house action. ...
Steve Brown made it to Virtual Bones Fest XXVI and told us his Rhythm Bones Story. ...
"FROM MAREMMA (TUSCANY) TO TENNESSEE or FROM WOODEN CASTANETS TO BONE CASTANETS"Short documentary on the use and tradition of castanets (gnacchere) in Tuscany and in the United States (here called "bones"). The document was prepared on the occasion of the presentation in Grosseto of the...
This is a YouTube video featuring the Italian player Morbello Vergari. The link to this video was sent by RBS friend Paolo Casini of Florence and Maremma, Italy. The photograph shows a sampling of their instrments. ...
Italians Ido Corti and Alessadro Casini perform in a style like the Mescher Tradition of Jerry and Sharon Mescher and Bernie Worrell. Click HERE to view. ...
We had a wonderful fleadh by the feale 2022. And our grand finale last night was the all Ireland senior and junior bones competition. We had 9 competitors and 3 of those were from USA. The senior result is as follows 1st James Yoshizawa from...
This is a compilation of Rhythm Bones players from around the world. Each player played to the same song, then the videos were synchronized. I have to say I'm amazed and humbled at the incredible talent they showed. In 30 years of video production,...
New member, Dennis Devine, saw Percy Danforth play at the 1977 Florida Folk Festival, and said he did not realize his importance at that time. He found this photograph and a great recording of Percy playing both from the Festival at the website of...
This video from Graham Hargrove demonstrates the basic rhythm bones rudiments of tap, double, triplet, quadruplet and maybe for the first time on video a quintuplet all played in the traditional style. ...