Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 2

A different, and perhaps older, Fire on the Mountain.
Can be played in standard tuning, but it’s really cool in cross key A (AEae)

from Isham Monday of Monroe County, Kentucky

slow version from Matt Brown

An uptempo version from Matt is on the Fiddle Club of the World blog.

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Fiddle 4 Twin Fiddle (Tue) – week 2

We went south of the border to learn a San Jarocho song
You know the one that’s the song of the session.

El Colás melody and harmony parts

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Chop, Pad and Shuffle: Fancy Cabbage

Hi Choppers-
Here is a really fancy version of Boil them Cabbage Down by Joe Edwards. I will post the version from Belieze and the bluegrass version soon (technical difficulties).
-Colby

Boil ‘Em Cabbage Down

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Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 1

No theme. Just some great tunes coming up.

Here’s one from the Alabama-born long time Harvey, Illinois resident Artie P. Crowder, with his band the Tennessee Railsplitters.

Sail Away Ladies

You too can own the fabulous CD on which resides this cut along with 19 other fine pieces of bow work, Folk Songs of Illinois #2: Fiddlers

Check back later for a slower version by Paul & Steve.

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Fiddle 4 Twin Fiddle (Tue) – week 1

First up was a Tohono O’odham (Papago) tune from the Gu’Achi Fiddlers

Ali Oidak Polka

Plus, here’s a tune we’re going to start learning next week. A Ostrobothian wedding minuet from Finland. Played by Torsten Pärus and Valter Enlund (Swedish-speaking Finns).

Lyckönskan

Thanks to our friend Arto Järvelä for the wonderful field recording of Mr. Pärus and Mr. Enlund. Here is Arto’s band, Nordik Tree playing the tune.

Lyckönskan

NB Click on the highlighted band names for links to their CDs.

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