OLD TIME ENSEMBLE GRADUATION

8:15 wednesday feb 24
paddy o splaines 2434 w montrose
Just west of western
http://www.paddyosplaines.net/?p=home

old time ensemble class stringbands
(spongebob squaredance & CF and the pardon me boys)
banjo classes
saturday old time ensemble
specialty fiddle classes
much more, plus good food, good beers. paddys is under new management, so
lets show them how much fun old time music is and what a great crowd we are. and don’t forget to tip your waitstaff!

Filed under: Fiddle 3,Fiddle 4,Old Time Ensemble,Paul Tyler,Steve Rosen by Steve | February 23, 2010 | Comments (0)

Old Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 7

Old Mother Logo from Garry Harrison

slow

medium

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Fiddle 2 (Tue) – week 7

Spotted Pony (the American, not the Irish tune)

slow

medium

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fiddle 3 thursdays, catching up

here’s 3 of our tunes. growling old man, grumblin old woman, taught by colby, slowed down even more.
plus oak ridge stomp and most recent, masons apron. all played slow.

growling old man, grumblin old woman

oak ridge stomp

masons apron

don’t forget all the great music and dance going on in the city…
chicago barn dance
local cajun events list
local bluegrass events and info

Filed under: Fiddle 3,Steve Rosen,Uncategorized by Steve | February 22, 2010 | Comments (0)

Old Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 6

Ray Alden recorded and produced tons of great music over the last four decades. Perhaps his best known project was The Young Fogies. I first saw him at the Indiana Fiddlers Gathering in the early 80s with his reel-to-reel recorder. He coaxed some of the best jam sessions over to his card table set up right next to the outdoor electrical outlet. One of the last times I saw him was at Clifftop (the Appalachian String Band Festival) a few years ago. As always, he was recording. This time with a small hand-held digital recorder.

Ray worked closely with the Camp Creek Boys and Fred Cockerham, musicians representative of the highly influential Round Peak style from Virginia and North Carolina. One of his longest associations was with Taylor Kimble and several generations of the Kimble family. Here’s Taylor Kimble’s version of a classic tune from that district . . .

Liza Jane (aka Big Liza)

Big Liza slow

Big Liza medium

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Old Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 5

Chased Old Satan Through the Door

We played it in A.

The original is from Ephraim Woodie & the Hen-Pecked Husbands from North Carolina They also recorded as the
Woodie Brothers

Available on this CD from Old Hat Records.

This version is almost as good as the original.

Double Decker String Band

Available on the Double Deckers’ last CD, “The Rest Is Yet to Come” from 5-String Productions.

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Fiddle 2 (Tue) – week 6

Mardi Gras is coming up. Let’s play a Cajun waltz. In the key of A.

Jolie Blon

medium

full speed

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Fiddle 3 (Mon) – week 5

Here’s a solo fiddle version of Stay All Night (aka Waterbound) in A.

medium

full speed

Another great tune for the shuffle bow pattern.

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Fiddle 2 (Tue) – week 5

The Girl I Left Behind is a good, standard G tune. It was one of the first tunes I learned by ear, because I heard it a lot as a kid.

slow

medium

full

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Fiddle 3 (Mon) – week 6

Whiskey Before Breakfast
Another chestnut in D. This one from the Métis fiddle tradition in western Canada. Good tune for working on the shuffle bow pattern.

slow

medium

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