Square Dance this Friday
Square your sets!
at the Global Dance Party
NB Text on this eCard is misleading. It’s all square dancing all night long! Every dance will be taught. Dancing starts at 8:30 and runs till 11. (There is not a separate teaching half hour followed by a concert.)
And the music will be fabulous, provided by Genevieve & Smith Koester, who were featured guests at Fiddle Club of the World on April 19, 2010. Here’s a sample from that meeting . . .
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9th Midwest Fiddle Championship
Presented by the Fiddle Club of the World (Chicago Chapter)
Youth/Family Division – July 1, 5:30 – 7:00 PM, in the concert hall at 909 W. Armitage Avenue
Open Division 1st Round & Youth/Family Semi-Finals – Thursday, July 7, 7:00 – 10:00 PM in the concert Hall at 4544 N. Lincoln Avenue
Open Division Finals & Youth/Family Finals – Saturday, July 9 at 12:30 PM, Folk & Roots Festival main stage in Welles Park
You should enter.
Everyone is welcome to come listen and cheer. Free admission to 1st Round and Semi-Finals.
More info and entry form at Chicago Folk & Roots Festival
Filed under: General Interest,Maria McCullough,Paul Tyler by Paul | June 2, 2011 | Comments (0)
Trio Ollín Visits the Saturday Open Jam – Old Town School of Folk Music
Check out this great video that Jason McInnes put together for us!
Parents, and students, thanks for being a part of this great community!
Love,
Maria 
Filed under: General Interest,Kids,Maria McCullough,Uncategorized by Maria | December 8, 2010 | Comments (0)
Las Virginias
Here is a polka called Las Virginias played by Marco Antonio from Trio Ollin…
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Crucero de Marín
Here is a video of Marco Antonio Rubio Jimenez from Trio Ollin playing El Crucero de Marín. The tune has two rhythms, mazurka and chotis
Filed under: General Interest,Maria McCullough by Maria | December 2, 2010 | Comments (0)
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.
Filed under: General Interest,Paul Tyler by Paul | July 8, 2010 | Comments (0)
graduation and other news
Old-Time Ensemble graduation party is at Paddy O-Splaine’s
(2434 W. Montrose) on Wednesday (Apr 21) at 8pm.
Lots of classes are coming. Here’s a flyer
(click to enlarge)
Also, Paul Tyler’s classes should check earlier posts for slow versions of tunes that are finally posted, after much travail and perspiration. The list includes Old Greasy Coat, Horse and Buggy-O, Prairie du Rocher Motion, Washington’s March, and John Lover’s Gone.
And a fiddle-filled fun event on friday is this Old-Time Community dance with music by the Fantastic Toe Trippers Orchestra featuring at least seven Old Town School teachers.
(click to enlarge)
Filed under: General Interest,Old Time Ensemble,Paul Tyler,Steve Rosen by Paul | April 20, 2010 | Comments (0)
Fiddle 2, week 1
Hello Fiddle Two-
Here are some versions of Buffalo Gals. Click on the play button to play from here, or right click on the text to save the file to your computer.
-Colby
Buffalo Gals-Slow
Buffalo Gals-Shuffled
Buffalo Gals-Tommy Jackson (key of A)
Filed under: Class,Fiddle 2,General Interest,Maria McCullough,Steve Rosen,Walter Hojka by Colby | October 29, 2009 | Comments (0)
Arto Järvelä tunes – Weeks 3 & 4
[Press arrow to listen, or right-click red or blue link to download and save file.]
For Colby’s “4-string Improvisation” class, Arto taught . . .
Wedding polkka efter Edward Öst
For Walter’s “Music Skills for Fiddlers” class, Arto taught . . .
and
Maalarin franssin sotiisi
harmony part
For Maria’s Thursday night Fiddle 3, he taught . . .
For Paul’s Monday classes, Arto demonstrated several tunes that we didn’t have time to teach.
Sormi (Finger) polskaa knocking tune similar to “Koputus polkka”
And here’s a tune from Arttu Peltokangas, who had been to America in the middle of the 20th century, and took some American tunes back home.
Also, check out my Fiddle 4 (Mon) posts for Week 3 and Week 4, and for Old-Time Ensemble Week 3 and Week 4.
At his September 26 workshop Arto taught three newer Finnish tunes . . .
Kolhon polska, composed by Otto Hotakainen of Halsua, a small town near Kaustinen and Järvelä in western Finland
Kissakallion ylitys, composed by Arto Järvelä
Kostner Avenue Waltz on nyckelharpa (keyed-fiddle), composed by Arto Järvelä, Sept. 15-18, 2009
(link to YouTube video)
Kostner Avenue Waltz on viulu (fiddle)
Plus, Arto was the featured guest at the Fiddle Club of the World meeting on Friday, September 25 at the Leadway Bar & Gallery (5233 N. Damen) at 7:30. Go here for the tunes he provided for the Club’s jam session.
Want a foretaste? Go to YouTube and watch some of Dr. Dosido’s videos.
Filed under: General Interest,Paul Tyler by Paul | September 25, 2009 | Comments (1)
Arto Järvelä’s visit to Chicago: nearing the final week
Don’t miss hearing Arto play. It is sublime.
Check out this tune he made up while sitting on our couch. [Link now works.]
This Saturday, he’ll be doing 2 workshops and a concert at Little Prairie Farm (aka Dot & Chirps place) near Kettle Moraine State Park in Wisconsin. Here’s the information on a flier
Don’t forget his appearance at the Fiddle Club of the World on Friday, Sept. 25 and the workshop on new Finnish folk fiddling on Saturday, Sept. 26, his last day here.
Here are some more artistic selections for you to enjoy.
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A tune on nyckelharpa (aka keyed-fiddle) or Hellstrand 1990 (composed by Arto Järvelä) or and one on fiddle or Jarvelan Antin polska or |
 Arto Järvelä with nyckelharpa (click to enlarge) |
Filed under: General Interest,Paul Tyler by Paul | September 17, 2009 | Comments (0)
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