Videos

I don’t have many videos to post yet, since I just started playing “out” again recently. But I know I need a page that gives you SOME idea of what I do. So I’m going to start with a few I’ve already posted elsewhere, and hope to post more later.

Just added: Andrew Grimm Photography captured most of “Ol’ Susannah” during the April 16, 2018 “Night at the Museum” event at the Clark County (Ohio) Historical Society. Left to right: daughter Emily Race, sister Tess Hoffman, Yours Truly, and nephew Jesse Hoffman. They only let us sing one song per tour group, which is why we didn’t launch right into something else.




Title slide for 'Train, Train, Christmas Train,' a Christmas song.Trains and Christmas have always gone together for me.  Several years back, I wrote “Train, Train Christmas Train” to describe how that connection “works on me” every Christmas season, bringing back memories of simpler, joyous times of youth. For this video, I illustrated the song with dozens of real-world photos of trains running through snow.

 




Paul Race and Tess Hoffman singing 'Hello, Susan Brown' at a Clark County Historical Society event.I’ve been supporting events at the Clark County Historical Society in Springfield Ohio for several years, including playing for Underground Railroad events, playing for the Society’s float in a Memorial Day parade, and playing for their “Night at the Museum” events. This video shows me and Tess playing an off-the-cuff version of an old Chad Mitchell Trio song “Hello, Susan Brown.” Off-the-cuff means that we didn’t have time to work out which verses we would be singing.



How to play Boil That Cabbage DownThis video of me showing how to play “Boil That Cabbage Down” was an experiment I did when I was putting together a series of online banjo lessons. I went back through the best take and clipped out everywhere I went “uh,” and so on, so it’s a little choppy. The main criticism I’ve had of it is that I don’t move in so you can see the chords properly. But this was supposed to be a supplement to a resource that showed the chord forms, tablature, and sheet music for the song. Click here if you want to see that page.



Paul Race singing 'National Road' at a UD arts event, c2007.Years ago, I was driving from Springfield to Columbus, when I got the idea for writing a play about the US heartland centering on life along the West National Road. That was the US’s first federally-supported roadway, now mostly Route 40. This video shows me singing a song from the play in 2007 at an arts event on the University of Dayton’s campus.

I had come straight from work, in case you wondered about the ID badge.

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