Fiddle Fun for the Fall : Flog (Fiddle Blog)

Fiddle Fun for the Fall

What a way to start a new session and new season! We have as a special guest for the month of September and extraordinary fiddler and musician from Kaustinen, Finland – Arto Järvelä. He’ll be sharing tunes with my Monday daytime classes and other weeknight and weekend fiddle classes. Also, he’ll be teaching a Finnish Ensemble on Wednesdays, offering several Finnish tune workshops on Sundays, and leading a Fiddle Club of the World meeting on Friday, Sept. 25.

One cool thing coming up this week is the the square dance at First Friday on Sept. 4, starting at 7:30. Arto will be there for half of the dance and will help us do an old-time Finnish quadrille (or square dance).

I got a chance to witness a performance of the quadrille, Finnish-style in Helsinki last summer. Here’s the opening and a later sequence on YouTube.

Part 1
Part 2

Arto plays for the quadrille at the Kaustinen Folk Festival
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