Fiddle 4 (Mon) – Week 1

Here’s this week’s tunes . . .
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Celeya Polka by the Gu’Achi Fiddlers of the Tohono O’odham nation (aka the Papago)

Celeya Polka demonstrated by P. Tyler and Maria McCullough

Arto Järvelä is our guest teacher for the first half of the session.
Arto Järvelä
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Arto taught a wedding polska. Polska is an old-time dance popular in Finland. Polska tunes, in triple meter (aka 3/4) were stilled played by many senior musicians when Arto began learning the fiddle as a teen. A wedding polska was used to raise money for the newly married couple, as guests paid for the privilege of dancing with the bride.

Rahapolska played by Arto at medium and full tempos.

Arto’s source for the tune is Erkki Metsapelto from Vimpeli in the province of South Ostrobothnia. (Arto’s hometown of Kaustinen is in Central Ostrobothnia.)
Here’s Erkki’s version of Rahapolska

Used with permission from the Folk Music Institute in Kaustinen, Finland. A book and CD of Erkki Metsapelto is one of many available from the Kansanmusikii-instituutti (Folk Music Institute).

Filed under: Fiddle 4,Paul Tyler by Paul | August 31, 2009 | Comments (0)


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