I love USA like this. with nice peoples and nice music. People living in country side are the BEST any where in the world.Easy and Kool . from France Stephane

I started on the tenor banjo back in HS mid 60s Drove fr Tucson to the 1967 Contest when it was actually IN Topanga Canyon. David Lindley was the host announcer. This incredible 13 yr old fiddler blew everybody away with her rendition of "Mockingbird". Somewhere I have a reel to reel tape!

I have a Banjo. i have had it for years, i really would like to play it , but i never had the time to learn, now i do and can't find anyone to learn with. love the video. Thank's for sharing.love the music, maybe i will make it there one year.. but i don't really think so. loved the video, Thank's for sharing.

I bought my first ukulele here and I haven't put it down since!! So glad this is a family tradition between my dad and I

The older I get, the more I appreciate this music from my Oklahoma childhood. I now have another place to get to before it's oo late! I doubt that a linear presentation of the various categories and players would have been as enjoyable as this sort of freeform, variational joy fest.

Not gonna lie, hailing from Appalachia, I had no idea Cali had a scene like this. Respect.

wasn't quite how i thought my friday night would go, but i went with it, i ended up cutting the sleeves off an old cowboy shirt that didnt fit anymore, wore it over my t shirt, turned the volume up and got pissed, totally nice way to chillax after a hard week at work... ace !

It's great to see so many kids playing and carrying on their musical traditions.

This is fun to see. Around 1974 I was vacationing and visiting a friend on the west coast (I'm a banjo player from Arkansas) and the friend took me to this festival. It featured John Hickman and Pat Cloud - great players. Also many fine old time players and some beautiful instruments.

I am a metal head typically but there is something about this music I love and have ever since I was a kid. Awesome musicianship and the fact they are keeping that style of music alive.

@dsvet

7 жыл бұрын

You should check out The Carolina Chocolate Drops

@cyntar556

7 жыл бұрын

Patrick Sutton You're feeling the heart and soul of the music, that's the difference between it and metal.

@henningandersen9027

7 жыл бұрын

Banjo has a very metallic sound - which is great!

@Testibus00

7 жыл бұрын

Metal has plenty of heart and soul, maybe even an abundance of it. It just has balls, too.

@cptstewartcannon2326

7 жыл бұрын

Check out "wait so long" by the band trampled by turtles. Epic!

Just love to see all the young musicians rubbing shoulders with inspirational older players. I live thousands of miles away but one day I would love to catch this event.

Music, food and fun you have got to love it any time that comes together! I hope this festival continues for years to come and there ought to be a whole lot more of them. Thank you for taking the time to make the documentary and posting it.

love how people walk up and start jamming w/ whoever else is playing. check your ego at the gate and just have fun

@JohnHillEU

3 жыл бұрын

Wish this was a more common atmosphere to find! I think we really lose more than we realise with the performer/audience dichotomy in our mainstream musical culture! Lessons to be learned from these wonderful people

at the HEART of America is great MUSIC!!!!!!!! Thank you so VERY much for this amazing video!!!!!

There's ALL KINDS of music going on around the world that we are not exposed to unless we seek it out, eh? You can hear bluegrass on the radio still, however.........this Contest and Documentary are awesome. Thank you !!

This was such a pleasure to watch, thank you.

Good to see again, thanks for sharing your video. I went as a youngster with Mary Ellen Clark, my guitar teacher and one of the founding board members with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Still going at 88 years young!

@paulbrewer4906

7 жыл бұрын

lot of hidden talent all ages I love the freedom to mingle with any and all the people. great to see young and old play together.paul e. Brewer lake placid, south Florida 83 and growing, "OLDER" I love all the different kinds of music. great day the LORD. has made !

@JanetBeth13

7 жыл бұрын

What I remember best about the festival was hearing Amazing Grace for the first time sung by a roomful of people. I'd never heard anything as beautifully amazing as that before in my young life. It helped point the way to a future where the Lord lives in my life.

What a wonderful thing, rather than crime, conflict or aggression, people involved in making music. Beautiful!

Fantastic work capturing this festival on digital. I wasn't there, but now feel like I was and certainly want to go back!

2013-53rd Annual. I had a blast it so sad that we don't know if we'll ever another festival. I took alot of pictures so I can look back at good memories. Pictures and ticket .I saved this video too.since I lisen to bluegrass you tube put this on my phone for me .such a great time and cmmerrodery. Hopefully we can have more festival's in the future..

I play the banjo ,guitar,mandolin and harmonica,but being in another country i really miss getting together with other musicians and doing some classic americana ..country music. Love this contest.

Very well done documentary. Once I started, I couldn't stop watching. Felt like I was there (I play the fiddle). Thanks for posting it.

It might be two years ago, but this was the best and enjoyable video, and so varied, the talents of the young especially was wonderful, I will spread the word about Topanga, Thank you from John in England.

this is incredible good.!Thank you so much for this documentary.

Loved this! Could NOT stop watching!!

@grimreaper3526

7 жыл бұрын

....it's been a year. Have you stopped watching? QUITTER!

@garywhite1551

7 жыл бұрын

Me too.

I still cannot believe how many people come here! Way cool!

This is why, at one time, i was a member of the South Florida Bluegrass Association. Great experiences/folks.

Growing up in the Mountains of Virginia i never knew folks from California had this type of class..

@TheLimbReaper

7 жыл бұрын

Well, ya gotta figure, a lot of the folks currently living in in Ca. / west coast are from the east; if not recently, they came from somewhere.

@airplanegeorge

7 жыл бұрын

that was my reaction but I couldn't put it into words

@ericanderson5502

7 жыл бұрын

Only if they move there from Virginia.

@NSResponder

7 жыл бұрын

There is a very vibrant traditional music scene in California. Bluegrass, Cajun, Irish, Scottish, Blues, Jazz, you name it, we've got it. -jcr

@cliffordchiverton1262

7 жыл бұрын

Tom Cook i

It is so refreshing to see talented young kids play so enthusiastically

Im Appalachain born and bred. This festival is awesome,never heard of it until now.

Yay - some traditional Scottish fiddling at 35:30. Good to see the Californians keeping in touch with roots of their music!

Incredible playing !! A LOT of talent there.

Now this was really cool. I enjoy how they just get together an pick. Great music.

This is the Metalheads of Mountain Music! Got to Love it!

Great to watch, I'd like to go back. I won first place, advanced banjo in 2009.. great fun! (especially when you win)

Thank you for sharing this. It should be longer, the complete event ... !!!

I was searching for something and found this instead. I do admire a five string banjo, a flat back mandolin and a dobro guitar playing slide while the fiddle plays chords...

Thank you for the experience. :-)

That is great - music transcends all - don't matter what ya like to listen to, this can only get yer feet tappin and put a smile on yer face.

THANK YOU for posting~ If you can, Thank You for correcting the spelling of my name. Peace, teresa crespo hartendorp, tch productions 2017

@topangabanjofiddlecontest2697

7 жыл бұрын

Hi teresa! I'm working on it. It's lowercase in most usages. Have to get in under the hood.....

Took me a while to realize this was in Socal. It all makes more sense now ... looks like a good time.

It's more than i can describe, I love it is my life.

20:23 Thank you son for restoring my faith in American youth. And then later... "I'm gonna go home and lay on the couch".....Exactly, when you are a kid that is your comfort zone! This is what Americana is all about. The "Roots", the "Folk" The heart of the real american culture immortalized in music and seeing it is still appreciated among the young.

A lovely documentary, well done. The judge who didn't like it is just peed off he wasn't featured handing out the prizes. People having fun!

Love it love it. Im learning guitar and I hope I can play like that some day.

Great music. Thanks for sharing.

QUE HERMOSA VIDA DE COMPARTIR LA MÚSICA TÍPICA ENTRE FAMILIAS DE UNA NACIÓN, ASÍ SE PRESERVA EL CARÁCTER DE UN PAÍS. SU UNIDAD, SU MODO DE VIDA QUE CONSERVAN, FOMENTAN Y DEFIENDEN. DIOS BENDIGA A ESA GRAN NACIÓN. EE.UU DE AMÉRICA. ME ENCANTÓ ESTE VIDEO. CONGRATULATION TO TOPANGA BANJO FIDDLE CONTEST

Wonderful video. America at its best.

Super , Shared here in Ireland

Perfekt music, excellend jam secijons

This is fantastic, really great, just love it, absolutely. A big thank you for uploading this to You Tube.

Country muziek, de leukste muziek die er bestaat, geweldig.

Congratulations on making this. It could have been an earnest coverage of the competition; instead, we are treated to a lively and thoughtful coverage of the event itself. So great to see young and old showing that this music continues to thrive in a spirit of community.

@banjomensch

Жыл бұрын

I was involved in the video production and we actually got "two, two, two mints in one!"-- musicians offering the results of months and months of practice, hoping to win a prize and send the link across the world to wherever friends and relatives are waiting. Then, the pressure's off and the fun begins. Much thanks to teresa crespo hartendorf for capturing all the fun. I'm watching this anew from a hospital bed, five years on and just keeps getting better!

@flamencoprof

Жыл бұрын

@@banjomensch I hope you are fortified and inspired to get back to normal health and the rich life I can see in your channel.

I love this where is it I want to go ,,,love love love ,this is real life

@banjomensch

7 жыл бұрын

www.topangabanjofiddle.org has all the information. See you there!

I would love to come and see this every year .

that fiddle player was amazing. baseball cap and fingers that fly! love it! bravo!

Thanks so much for this!

Music is life Topanga banjo fiddle contest is extralife!

Ne akıllı insanlar...Üç günlük ömürlerini ne güzel yaşıyorlar

I am metal head also and love the bass out sometimes. But good old bluegrass was the foundation and soal of all music. I love that music till this day. Is great to hear is still going strong.

Great documentary!!!

This music reminds me of the Shetland isles Scotland.

I soooo need to attend this...

@kevlutu

7 жыл бұрын

Yup ! This event just made My bucket list going to have to check it out, I attend as many Bluegrass events in My area as I can " Minnesota " and because I am retired now that number will increase ! God Bless All. Kevin

Funny how this music calls to our blood. I was born in Canada, but all my mother's side is American in North Carolina. Love you USA.

This was good, but it still doesn't compare to the good ole Kentucky bluegrass I grew up listening to.. Regardless I'm glad to see that this is becoming popular with more people.. Forever Live Bluegrass..

something about the sound of banjo's....awesome!

beautiful video, lousy jams

Très bon documentaire. J'ai bien aimé..

Nice job, Teresa. Let me know if you need a second (or third) camera some year.

great video

I don't care about your race your religion or political preferences this will make ANY American smile.

this is so incredible

would love to play at an event like this. I play:banjo,mandolin,dobro,bass,guitar,dulcimer,ukelele,and a few others

MARAVILLOSO. Saludos from Ecuador / South America

Lovin it, from semi-sunny Scotland.

I feel happiness !

this made me think of that song "no longer a sweetheart of mine" on dillard and clark

Real Americans , god bless you all from England

The big jam session in the beginning is probably better than the contest.

Wow! thanks

Jeeehaa wonderfull time. Pretty'est nice'st people I'ff ever seen. Comming from the Netherlands that saying something.

JUST GREAT! I enjoy very much to listening this good music. I'm from Switzerland where we unfortunately don't have such nice contests. Our young people unfortunately going more to Hard Rock or even Heavy Metal that I don't like at all.

@goodteacup

5 жыл бұрын

Rolf Staubli you guys have polka, that kick started folk and Bluegrass! Thank you!

espectacular!! Como me gustaría ir a ese festival

I can't believe this has been going on pretty close to me & I've never been to it!

wow! what talent! all sound good!

Loved it !

A whole different and a positive spin on "La-La Land" Nice! LOL!

....legend has it banjo wants to be known now as banjoseph & has taken on the identity of a footstool

The growing popularity of the blue grass movement is and has been growing over the years, it's driven not only because of it's old school sounds of the past so many of us grew up with. It represents a time when life was harder but allot more fun and when freedom of the country was still a real thing. Rock music became the sound of modern day freedom but it's roots came from the sounds of blue grass.

I am fron Argentina. There is no beer there.

they all look like they're having so much fun, I have to learn an instrument...

This looks like a "Rare Hidden Gem!" I must put it on my "Bucket List!"

WOW that was great...Keep Up the good work,,,,,w/t out

It's a toss up but I think the best musicians in the world are either from the hallowed halls of Carnegie (classical) or on the dusty doorstep of a cabin in Appalachia. If I had to pick I'd have to go with the bluegrass crowd. Awesome musicians of all ages.

VERY GOOD.

That ole boy at 8:30, is as good as they come on the fiddle.

@LEUllman

7 жыл бұрын

pdufusc That is Phil Salazar. He's mighty fine!

@user-ig7nq7pc7k

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, he damn well is! Who is the lap steel player and the first banjo?

@grimreaper3526

7 жыл бұрын

...yep Scruffy McFiddler woulda been offered jobs but he wouldn't shave! LIFE CHOICES

im from brazil and i loved watch this video... maybe some day God help to go there to see in close... BTW, how many days takes the festival ? hugs from brazil

@topangabanjofiddlecontest2489

7 жыл бұрын

It is one long, exhausting, extremely fun day!

@eletronica1857

7 жыл бұрын

tnx for your reply !

Deus vos conceda a vitória programada por ELE . eu estou muito feliz em ve-los e ouvi-los.

I am a Brazilian and I love the customs of the United States .. I would like to have been born in this wonderful and humble Country where people have a wonderful culture ... here in Brazil there is no such thing ... here you only have crap ... I have Shame on my country!

@goodteacup

5 жыл бұрын

Come on up, stay a while, we’ll keep a light on for you!

These are my folk!