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You might not know Joe Newberry, but you know his work. You've heard his picking and singing as a regular on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion. And you've heard his award-winning songs – Singing As We Rise, The Darker the Night the Better I See, and others – on the radio, performed by The [...]
Joe Newberry has been playing banjo and writing songs for a good many years, and recently shared this video of him performing On This Christmas Day, a song he wrote about the first Christmas Day. I knew right away that it would be perfect for this one as well. [jwplayer player="1" mediaid="61431"]
Joe Newberry was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and grew up in Boone County, Missouri. His songwriting has the same clean, elegant style that characterises his banjo playing. Musicians in the folk and bluegrass world often record his songs. The Gibson Brothers included two of Newberry 's compositions, Jericho and I Know Whose Tears, on [...]
Here is another gallery of Frank Baker's images from the 2013 Delaware Valley Bluegras Festival.
The modern musical arts based on traditional string music divide into many camps. Some use the instruments familiar to old time and bluegrass to push boundaries, while others demonstrate an almost fanatical devotion to the old masters. In between you can find every gradation on that scale. But ultimately, the most satisfying results tend to come [...]
Here's video of Bill Evans, Noam Pikelny and Joe Newberry's triple banjo version of Arkansas Traveler from last Saturday's edition of A Prairie Home Companion. [jwplayer config="bgt" mediaid="51313"] There are some further audio clips from the show, including an Earl Scruggs medley, on the PHC web site.
A Prairie Home Companion will on this week's radio show be presenting three individually distinctive banjo players; Bill Evans, educator, composer and author; the progressive Noam Pikelny; and innovative old-time picker Joe Newberry. Also on the show are traditional county music singer Suzy Bogguss and country music historian Bill C Malone, author of the first [...]
More winners from Bluegrass Today! OK... that may be overstating the point, but David Morris did catch up Thursday afternoon with a number of eventual IBMA Award winners, just hours before the awards presentation that evening. Here is his discussion with Joe Newberry, writer of Singing As We Rise, which won the Gospel Recorded Event [...]
