CanJoe*John’s Major Stage Performances

Professionally performing music on one string pulled through a beverage can has its “ups and downs”. The “up” part happens anytime CanJoe*John gets to perform in ANY public venue or on any stage, but especially on the major stages and often with major artists. A few major stages in his resume’ include:

The Grand Ole Opry at the Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN as guest of television’s“Hee Haw”, Mike Snider, Nov 4, 2006

Shared billing on the main stage of the Wytheville, VA “Chautauqua Festival 2007” with the legendary rock band, “Joey Dee & the Starlighters”, followed by the legendary Motown band, the “Platters”.

“MerleFest 2005”, featured artist of the “Little Pickers Stage”; “Merlefest 2004” performed both the “Americana Stage” and the “Little Pickers Stage”.

The Christian Country Music Association Annual Awards 2002, on the world famous Ryman Auditorium stage, Nashville, TN; telecast live to over 2 million viewers worldwide as the guest fiddler for the ‘male vocalist of the year’, “John Steed and his Red River Band”.
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Two special performance presentations at the Country Music Hall of Fame, Nashville, TN, 2000 & 2001

The Paramount Center for the Arts, Bristol, TN, July 2010

These are just a few of the premiere stages CanJoe*John has performed and to have as wonderful, personal memories as well as are credits for a man playing just “a stick and a can”. The most prestigious and most valuable performances, though, are every time a patient is seen on the ongoing ‘Tour of Smiles’. Since having “reached the top” by after playing the Grand Ole Opry, CanJoe*John, since Nov 2006, has steadily remained ‘on tour’ seeing patients, entertaining them and giving many of his CanJoe Company instruments to the chronic care patients for their personal use as “smile therapy”. No stage anywhere carries such prestige.

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About CanJoe*John

CanJoe*John began making and marketing the authentic 'canjoe' instruments from their origin. Introduced to them by their creator, Herschel R. Brown, in the early 1990s, John, from the beginning, helped Herschel manufacture them in Herschel's shop. John relocated back to his home state of TN in 1993 and continued, initially with Herschel's direct assistance, to make and market them, establishing the licensed sole proprietorship, the CanJoe Company, in 1994. As a professional musician CanJoe*John became billed as the "world's most unique musician, playing the world's most unique musical instrument, the canjoe" (aka, canjo). Always with his own personal canjoe instrument in hand he was awarded the adult "2007 Male Bluegrass Instrumentalist of the Year" by the North American Country Music Association International (NACMAI), and now having the distinction of being the first and only canjoe picker to ever perform on the Grand Ole Opry, has literally taken the one-stringed thing to the outer limits! CanJoe*John is a master craftsman and artist who designs, creates and crafts these instruments as custom works of musical fine art for those who respect and require the best of the best, truly genuine, original one-stringed musical instruments. He can be reached via email at canjoe@canjoe.com, or by phone at 423-612-4320.
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