Fiddle for Kansanmusiikkiopisto in Helsinki

Welcome Finnish friends. Here are links to the tunes we worked on last Monday evening.
For Old Town School folks, Kansanmusiikkiopisto translates as ‘folk music school.’ They’re like us.

To learn more about our visit to Finland, and to hear our 2nd Half with the students at Kansanmusiikkiopisto, visit the Old Town School On the Road blog and scroll to the bottom of Finnish Americana, Part II.

Try this link for the Hands On CD/jukebox. There are tracks there with two speeds for both Waterbound and Goin’ Down to Cairo. This CD featured Colby Maddox on mandolin and Paul Tyler on fiddle, along with two fellow teachers on banjo and guitar.

And here is another demonstration for Goin’ Down to Cairo, two tempos in one sound file.
(Press the arrow to listen, or right click the red title and choose ’save link’ to download.)

NB: This link is now working.

White River Bottoms comes from Lotus Dickey of Orange County, Indiana. You can learn more about him at the Fiddle Club of the World blog. There’s a lot of great stuff there. Help yourself. And I plan to add more from my Nordic trip.

These demonstration recordings were made by Paul Tyler.

slow

medium tempo

full tempo

And to make it easier, here is Lotus playing White River Bottoms

Filed under: Fiddle 3, Paul Tyler by Paul | June 10, 2009 | Comments (2)


2 Comments so far

  1. Finnish Americana, Part II : Old Town School - On The Road on June 10, 2009 6:57 am

    [...] For more about the Kansanmusiikkiopisto, check out the resources posted on the Flog (Fiddle Blog) [...]

  2. Jonathan on July 6, 2009 11:24 pm

    wonderful of you to share this tune! thank you so much!

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