About Tymes Past
We have a wonderful life of many good friends and now in our retirement years, playing the old 1800's music, simple straightforward music as it was once played and sung on the front porch or more likely in the living area of early American cabins.
In times past, we owned a Home Improvement Company and also bred and raised Reg. American Paint Horses along with our two sons in the 1970's and '80's and then began a herd of 45 Llamas in the 1990's, we have since sold our 100 acre farm and llamas, and retired to preserving the early American Root Music of America and serving our Lord.
Our Venues of Performance include:
The Tennessee Fall Homecoming, Museum of the Appalachia, Clinton, TN
Hale Farm & Village, Bath, OH
Caesar Creek Lake Appalachian Mtn. Music Festivals, Waynesville, OH
Little Mountain Folk Festival, Kirtland Hills, OH
The Geauga County Fair, Burton, OH
The Manatee Historical Village, Bradenton, FL
The Gamble Mansion, Ellenton, FL
Palmetto Historical Park 'Heritage Days,' Bradenton, FL
Cades Cove & Townsend, TN for Old Timer's Day
DeGraf's, OH Sesquicentennial
Brownella Cottage, Galion, OH
Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, NC
Burr Oak State Park's Appalachian Festival
Mohican Outdoor School, Bellville, OH
Genealogy Societies
Dan Emmett Festival, Mt.Vernon, OH
Ohio Bicentennial Events
The Cumberland Highlander's TV Show for Kentucky
Oak Ridge Festival, Attica, OH
Mountain Series TV Show, Newport, TN
The Alewine Pottery, Gatlinburg, TN
Pinellas Folk Festival, Largo, FL
Demonstrating the American Root Music in Cades Cove, Townsend, TN for the National Park Service.
Carl began playing a mountain dulcimer back in 1979, which introduced him to these lovely old tunes, and he found many of the old songs sounded great on a banjo. He now plays an old banjo in the traditional claw hammer style, as well as the guitar, dulcimer, autoharp and bowed psaltery.
Betty plays tunes from the 1850's on a three string homemade rhythm bass and a 'plucked psaltery' or harp.
We often interact and involve the audience with toe-tapping, old time music through the sharing of rhythm instruments such as washboards, wood clickers, egg shakers or limber jacks.
We will be performing at various events through out the year, many listed on the 'Calendar' here on the website. April & early May we will be demonstrating the Root Music of America in the Appalachia's for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Once again in September & early October we will be in Cades Cove, picking and playing. Come and enjoy the beautiful Smokies and the old mountain early music as it was once sung and played! Many of the Traditional Old-Time Music and Gospel Songs are now available on our CDs and DVDs. A new Musical - Educational DVD was just released in early July, with the two of us presenting Mountain Music and some of the history of early life in the Mountains.
"We give God the glory in all things, and count it a blessing to serve Him"
