{"id":9852,"date":"2013-03-21T08:58:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T12:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=9852"},"modified":"2024-04-16T11:08:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T15:08:32","slug":"9-amazing-performers-from-the-march-2013-george-formby-society-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/21\/9-amazing-performers-from-the-march-2013-george-formby-society-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"9 amazing performers from the March 2013 George Formby Society convention"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday<\/a>, I shared my ragged performance of “When I’m Cleaning Windows” at the George Formby Society convention in Blackpool, and promised that as a reward for enduring it, you’d get to see how the banjo uke is really<\/em> meant to be played. And so here are eight performers I managed to record before the battery on my Flip camera decided it had done quite enough.<\/p>\n

There were multiple concert sessions throughout the weekend, and these performances were all from the first on Saturday.<\/p>\n

John Walley started us off in the ballroom of the Imperial Hotel with “Sitting on the Top of Blackpool Tower” and “Mr. Wu’s An Air Raid Warden Now.”<\/p>\n