Ken Aoki, "My Grandfather´s Clock", at The 22nd BohemRagtimeJazzFestival.

The 22nd BohémRagtimeFestival, 2013, Kecskemét, Hungary, featured a great number of old goodies, such as “My Grandfather´s Clock“, with Ken Aoki, an outstandingly skilled banjoplayer from Japan. Copied from Wikipedia: “Grand-Father’s Clock“ was first published in 1876. “My Grandfather’s Clock“ is a song written in 1876 by Henry Clay Work, the author of “Marching Through Georgia“. It is a standard of British brass bands and colliery bands, and is also popular in bluegrass music. It has also been sung by male choruses such as the Robert Shaw Chorale. It was in this Piercebridge hotel that the author encountered a remarkable clock that inspired the song. The song, told from a grandson’s point of view, is about his grandfather’s longcase clock. It is purchased on the morning of his grandfather’s birth and works perfectly for ninety years. When the grandfather brings his bride into his house, the clock rings 24 chimes. Before the gra