Episode 014: Interview with Playing Duo, Bill Drellow and Richard Hardy
Bill and Richard have been playing together for a couple of years, both retired from careers and back to doing what they love. During the pandemic, they continued to play together as part of each others pandemic posse. The program that Richard spoke of, The JAM (Junior Appalachian Musician) Program in Transylvania County offers free lessons and weekly opportunities for students to play music together in an informal setting. Lessons are offered for the guitar, mandolin, claw hammer banjo, fiddle, standup bass and song. The teachers are working musicians with a passion to keep traditional music alive in the Appalachian region. You fine their website here. They also have a You Tube channel with over 100 short teaching videos for the various instruments for anyone to use! The name of the channel is Transylvania JAM teaching videos. What a beautiful world we live in.