Fiddle 2 (Mon) – weeks 4 & 5
Let’s get after Liza Jane. Check out the slow, medium and fast versions on the Hands On CD. (The CD can also be heard free on the Old Town School online jukebox. There’s a link on the Fiddle Page.)
Or here, for fiddle only . . .
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Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 4
Links to the iTunes store for a couple of songs about hanging . . .
Been All Around This World by the Highwoods String Band
Tom Dooley a unique and early version of the song by Grayson & Whitter.
G.B. Grayson, a blind fiddler from Laurel Bloomery, Tennessee, is the descendant of the Sheriff Grayson mentioned in the lyrics.
Here are the melodies . . .
I’ve Been All Around This World
And the lyrics (in pdfs) . . .
I’ve Been All Around This World
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Fiddle 4 Old-Time (Tue) – week 4
Leather Britches in G. More bow-rocking with the shuffle bow . . .
Every fiddler’s version is unique. Here’s one somewhat close to the way we played it . . .
Leather Britches by Lotus Dickey of Paoli, Indiana in 1987
Here’s the A part of Leather Britches played with a Georgia shuffle . . .
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Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 3
A fine Kentucky tune in D. Related to “Rocky Mountain Goat” as played by Doc Roberts.
Mud Fence fiddled by William Stepp of Lakeville, KY. Walter Williams on banjo.
Mud Fence fiddled at medium tempo by Paul Tyler of Chicago, IL. Steve Rosen on banjo.
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Fiddle 4 Old-Time (Tue) – week 3
A fun tune in A. Can be played in either standard or cross-tuning.
Indian Squaw by Alva Green of Isomville, Kentucky
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Fun Fiddle stuff at Folk & Roots
It’s the 13th year for the Chicago Folk & Roots Festival, our big party in the park (Welles Park, that is). Come on out for some fiddle-iscious fun this weekend. Actually, you can start tonight, Thursday July 8, at the 8th Midwest Fiddle Championship in Lincoln Square. Fourteen fiddlers have entered the Open Division to compete for $500 in prize money.
Gabby Pichardo & Juan Rivera, 2009
The Fiddle Contest continues on Saturday, July 10th on the Main Stage, with the Invitational Division. Five fiddle bands have been invited to compete for $1,200 in cash prizes, so long as they bring along some dancers to show how good they are at making people move. The invited bands include the Paulina Hollers, featuring Old Town School fiddle teachers, Elizabeth Lamberti and Jim Becker, the Cajun Vagabonds, Stil Nua (Irish) and Moravska Cimbalovka (Moravian).
Some of your fiddle teachers will also be hard at work at 3:15 on Sunday with a Family Barn Dance in the Dance Tent, including Jonas Friddle, Walter Hojka, Maria McCullough, Steve Rosen and Paul Tyler. Another good community dance takes place at 6:45 with Victor Pichardo and Juan Rivera and the rest of their Sones de Mexico compadres host a Fandango. Come a half hour earlier for a lesson in zapateado (Mexican clogging).
Wait, we’re not done yet. The Steve Rosen Band is playing a set in the concert hall for those who want a break from the heat. (Check the signs for day and time). Danny Miller is leading an old-time slow jam in the Welles Park Gazebo at noon on Saturday. And I, Paul Tyler get another shot on the Main Stage on Sunday at 1:00 with the WAZO County Warblers & the Fly Boys.
To inspire you with the fun of old-time square dancing, here’s a video of a dance I called at a festival in Indiana two weeks ago. Dancing around a big old tree is almost mystical.
Hope to see you there.
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Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 2
A great modal A tune. The 2nd finger note on the A string is sometimes high (a C# in the A part), sometimes low (a C natural in the B part), and sometimes vague. Listen to how Henry Reel plays it. As recorded for Alan Jabbour and the Library of Congress in 1966.
Kitchen Girl
This link takes you to two recordings and a transcription of Henry Reed’s playing. Check out the whole website Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier.
fiddle and banjo, slow version
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Fiddle 4 Old-Time (Tue) – week 2
More shuffling in the key of D . .
Sugar Hill as played by Emmett Lundy in 1943 for the Library of Congress
The version taught was initially inspired by Emmett Lundy. But it naturally evolved with bits and pieces of other versions heard and played.
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Fiddle 2 (Mon) – week 2
We started on Sourwood Mountain in A. I’ve changed the way I teach it based on how Maria McCullough taught it to my daughter. Hear and see for yourself.
This is how Walter Hojka, who also teaches in the kids fiddle program, plays it.
Sourwood Mountain slow
Here’s the way I used to teach it . . .
medium tempo
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Old-Time Ensemble (Wed) – week 1
An unnamed tune learned by Garry Harrison from an old home recording made in Prairie du Roche, Illinois. Garry named it, and recorded it with his band the Indian Creek Delta Boys.
Prairie du Rocher Motion played by Garry Harrison and the “Crik Delters”
fiddle and banjo duet at a slow tempo
The notes to this and hundreds of other great tunes can be found the collection Garry Published a few years ago: Dear Old Illinois.
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