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jon & kathy at lowell

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Here's a song written by Hank William

Come see Planet Banjo &/or the Dixie Butterhounds as we open at the Cantab for the "Fourth Tuesdays" of 2008. The Cantab Lounge is on Mass. Ave, right in Central Square, Cambridge, MA (our fair city) and starts around 8PM. Brought to you by Geoff Bartley, guitarist of some reknown!

Next Shows: Every 4th Tuesday in 2008!

Here's a clip from the last April show.

Tell Her to Come Back Home(mp3, only 747KB)

The Harry Smith Frolic

Greenfield, Mass

July 11 - 13 2008

A weekend of fun old-time music, socializing, eating, camping, swimming, etc. It's cheap! And the best thing... a big bonfire Saturday night with a full dress reenactment of the Harry Smith anthology... not to be missed! For more info, click below:

The Harry Smith Frolic

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Check out our new songs!!

Planet Banjo's public Steel Guitar debut! Live from the Cantab Lounge, in August 2006! One I learned from Dave Giegerich at Ashokan... very cool dude...

Steelin' Home (mp3, 1.0 MB)

Our second newest. One of our favorite John Prine songs

In Spite of Ourselves (mp3, 1.3MB)

Hard Ass Country... Mark and Karen sing (Jon on steel)....

The Streets of Baltimore (mp3, 1Mb)

Karen sings lead on this one, Kathy and Mark do Harmony, Jon (steel),

Jealous Heart (mp3, 1Mb)

George sings and plays slide guitar, Jon on Steel

Truck Drivin' Man (mp3, 1Mb)

Mark & George on fiddle, Jon on Banjo, Kathy on Guitar... Mark sings...

Cindy (mp3, 1Mb)

George leads, Jon Banjo, Karen Harmony, and Kathy guitar on