The John Reischman Banjo Book-The Road To Malvern (performed by Gabe Hirshfeld)

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The Road To Malvern
Written by Jm Childress
Arranged by Lluís Gómez
Performed Gabe Hirshfeld

Gabe Hirshfeld grew up in Newton, Massachusetts. At the age of fifteen, while listening to the NPR show Car Talk, he heard the great banjo player Earl Scruggs. The sound of the banjo spoke to him in a way that no other sound ever had and it changed his life. After playing and obsessing over the banjo for several years he won the Lowell Fiddle and Banjo Competition bluegrass division several times and was the last winner of the New England Banjo Championship at the Ossipee Valley Music Festival. Gabe started to play in various bands around Boston before attending Berklee College of Music. While at Berklee he joined together with several fellow students to create the Lonely Heartstring Band.

This playlist is a companion to The John Reischman Banjo Book and will allow you to hear each of my arrangements and check out the fingerings and techniques.

I’ve been fortunate to rely on a wonderful group of friends for some of the recordings—muchas gracias, amigos! As you’ll see, we kept the clips relatively casual—the primary goal being to share the sound of John Reischman’s stellar compositions on the five-string banjo. Also, some of the videos were recorded a while back for Banjo Newsletter magazine, and while the fingerings remain mostly the same, slight variations may have been introduced in these performances.

As always, if you have any questions, just drop me an email.
lluisgomez@mac.com

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