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> 1) Who are you?,<br>
> 2) Where are you?,<br>
> 3) Musician?, and, for good measure,<br>
> 4) When did you join this august list?<br>
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<div>Maurie Walker</div>
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<div>Lakewood, Colorado, immediately west of Denver</div>
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<div>Tenor banjo player, but have also dabbled on tuba, cornet, clarinet, soprano, and washboard. <br>
Also do arrangements and transcriptions, and if no one intervenes, I may sing.<br>
First played in St Louis, with members of the Dixie Stompers and future members of the St Louis Ragtimers.<br>
Played in LA with the Excelsior Banjo Band, and did a six-year stint with the banjo show band The Levee Loungers, out of the Twin Cities. <br>
Have a forty-five year on-and-off relationship with Denver's Queen City Jazz Band, including some five years as the leader. </div>
<div>Played cornet with the Denver Nighthawks.<br>
Played ragtime with the Queen City Ragtime Ensemble, the Ragtime Banjo Commission, the Cali-Co Ragtime Quartet, and currently with Something Doin' -- The Big Little Ragtime Band.<br>
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Don't remember when I joined this list, but I think the late Boston banjoist Cal Owen was significantly involved in it at the time.<br>
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<div>Maurie Walker</div>
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