string band

noun

1. a band consisting of stringed instruments

2. an informal name for string orchestra

Example Sentences

“He was very conversant with the Incredible String Band, with Bert Jansch, with Sandy Denny. So I met somebody in the middle of all this who didn’t need to play in a pub band, playing songs by from the ‘70s or the ‘80s or the ‘90s,” says Plant.

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Balancing laughter and sorrow seems to come easily to Giddens, 48, who has been on a serious mission to rekindle the legacy of the banjo and string band traditions as authentically Black creations ever since she met fiddle player Joe Thompson in 2004 and became a disciple.

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That’s why she wanted to record the tunes they inherited from Thompson, as well as from Etta Baker and other North Carolina string band players — hence the “Blackbird” album.

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Roni Stoneman, a virtuoso banjo player, mainstay of the country music television show “Hee Haw” and one of the last surviving members of the Stoneman Family, a renowned Appalachian string band, died on Thursday at her home in Murfreesboro, Tenn. She was 85.

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In “That’s All I Know About Arkansas,” Leventhal constructed a mandolin-topped string band in the studio to support a modal, Appalachian-tinged melody.

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