Actor Steve Martin surprises Brevard crowd

Karen Chavez * [e-mail] * published September 15, 2008 12:15 am Comments on Topix forums : Brevard The audience at Saturday's third annual Mountain Song Festival at the Brevard Music Center ...

[GenuineNative]

Steve Martin is a very talented actor.I was not aware that he played the banjo.How unique is this :)

[Lance]

Steve Martin is perhaps the most talented man in Hollywood. There's absolutely nothing he can't do. He sings, dances, juggles (including cat juggling), plays a number of musical instruments, lassos, does comedy and serious with equal aplomb, writes, directs. Quite an amazing man.

[bluegrassbrad]

Steve Martin is an amazing banjo player and has been playing seriously for many years. Here is a great youtube clip of him playing with banjo masters Bela Fleck and Tony Trishka.
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

[Lee]

GenuineNative wrote:

Steve Martin is a very talented actor.I was not aware that he played the banjo.How unique is this :)

Wow. You must have missed most of his early stand-up career then. Playing the banjo was a huge part of that.

[southern neighbor]

DANG I loooove Steve Martin. I would have loved to've been there. I agree he's so funny, talented, things you'd never expect. Actually he'd be pretty good VP

[Yep]

GenuineNative wrote:

Steve Martin is a very talented actor.I was not aware that he played the banjo.How unique is this :)

Banjo has become his 'special purpose'...lol...

(if you remember the movie)

[GenuineNative]

Yep wrote:

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Banjo has become his 'special purpose'...lol...
(if you remember the movie)

I never reallt watched him that much.Guess I will have to watch some CDs to catch up on his career.

[Question]

Doesn't he have a home in the area?

[Whatever]

There's a good You Tube clip of him playing with the Muppets.

[etowah2008]

Who gives a happy hurrah where he is, just another Hollywood want'a be.

[Jessica B]

bluegrassbrad wrote:

Steve Martin is an amazing banjo player and has been playing seriously for many years. Here is a great youtube clip of him playing with banjo masters Bela Fleck and Tony Trishka.
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Martin worked with and learned from William McKuen of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, so he's earned his chops on the banjo.(The B-side of the single of "King Tut" is a banjo piece.)

[OOKK]

Now everyone likes Steve Martin..as I do too. His movies are great, and I have enjoyed him since he was on SNL. And who can forget "king Tut"
Lets just hope he doesn't screw it up and start messing around in politics.

[Grammar Patrol]

I hate rednecks wrote:

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They are called DVD's you dumb redneck. Where have you been the past 15 years?

Actually, they're called DVDs. No apostrophe. That would make them belonging to DVD??? Maybe you're the dumb redneck or just a dumb smart aleck. Where were you during English class?

[southern neighbor]

I love the movie "Bowfinger" as silly comedy, also "All of Me" with Lily Tomlin ... and "Parenthood" was a family comedy with more to it than met the eye ... and the "Spanish Prisoner" was very clever & twisty ... I always read his New Yorker articles and he wrote the story for "Traitor" which is a thought-provoking movie with don cheadle, out now. He's one of my all time faves, very versatile and seems a gentleman and gentle man. I'd love to know if he came to the area often (and where i could go find him!)

[southern neighbor]

bluegrassbrad wrote:

Steve Martin is an amazing banjo player and has been playing seriously for many years. Here is a great youtube clip of him playing with banjo masters Bela Fleck and Tony Trishka.
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Thanks for the link, very enjoyable!

[USA-Citizen]

southern neighbor wrote:

DANG I loooove Steve Martin. I would have loved to've been there. I agree he's so funny, talented, things you'd never expect. Actually he'd be pretty good VP

VP, for WHAT?

[USA-Citizen]

I hate rednecks wrote:

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They are called DVD's you dumb redneck. Where have you been the past 15 years?

Leave it up to those very smart people in Brsyon City, NC, they come up with the correct answer again, Wow....

[southern neighbor]

USA-Citizen wrote:

<quoted text> VP, for WHAT?

Just teasing, I prefer banjos to guns & he seems like a smart guy with good personality, has done some political stuff on SNL?.. as I said, just a joke :-)

[Duh-huh]

southern neighbor wrote:

DANG I loooove Steve Martin. I would have loved to've been there. I agree he's so funny, talented, things you'd never expect. Actually he'd be pretty good VP

Yeah he would ,after all the majority of those in Washington are just acting like they know what they are doing , has worked well so far Not!

[Smell the Glove]

etowah2008 wrote:

Who gives a happy hurrah where he is, just another Hollywood want'a be.

And you have done what during your long career?