http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbR6YZs8hqs

sometimes you just want an old favorite
or perhaps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UiSMyyj-Ac

The greatest gypsy - jazz player of his time has its roots in Belgium . Look how he is playing the fretboard with only 2 fingers . After a tragic accident ( a fire in his wagon ) he lost 2 of his fingers . Prepair for a great guitarplayer :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UVw5C0S ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fogmcyg ... re=related

pretty good fiddle player as well! here he plays to a little clip that makes you understand Woody's fascination with the Island of Stromboli!

and everybody loves a good uke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8fQePz4FcE

remember that old beat up guitar song

didn't look like too much
just a Roy Smeck stage deluxe
but a lady never faired as well
who'd traveled through so much

picked up the name of Angel
In an old New Orleans bar
where a drunken poet carved one
on top of that guitar

and old Babe he sure did mark her
playin' songs right from the heart
seems everyone who used her
scared that old beat up guitar

Now who wrote that song?

i believe jerry jeff sang it, but i don't know if he wrote it.

the thing i read on the right about the nazi no jazz thing made me think of this animated clip i have posted before
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dKQLUqgB-0

I love that gypsy music :
http://www.about-django.com/news/videos ... _swing.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x05z27bl ... re=related

I also love it's Jewish / Irish / American Cousin
the original Dawg Music

and a couple of fellows from my home town. one went to Douglass High School and one went to Capital Hill...If you are from OKC..you know which is which...but that is all different now!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANdaxop0QzI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkyIqYYB ... re=related

it is rumored that they did indeed jam together in OKC?

They play with a speed that i only can dream of Django played once electric with an Epiphone guitar but it was not really his thing :

http://www.about-django.com/news/videos/electrique.htm

Tony Rice is a pretty good acoustic picker (in that David Grisman video)

These guys are pretty good as well!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23TbhZ-4B_U

Pretty nifty picking there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xftn_mV7 ... re=related

Alison Kraus sounding like a violin from the same you tube page.

What a voice , she 's really good .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOw3w-00Jqw

I really love Great Big Sea...I remember going to a folk festival somewhere in MD..they were playing, and Arlo was playing. We later hired them as closers for our local town festival...and they were a huge hit. Good mix of traditional Irish and Newfoundland sea chanteys and folk songs! These guys are REALLY popular in Canada.

It's amazing that you posted Great Big Sea, Sue, I was just listening to them performing the "Mermaid Song" yesterday......as time goes by I believe in coincidences less and less:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXPzMXN3hAg

Here's another one from GBS...that's five thousand kids in the audience singing along with them...and that's how hugely popular they are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD0XihILQzk