Arto Järvelä tunes – Weeks 1 & 2
For Walter’s “Music Skills for Fiddlers” class, Arto taught . . .
Syrjälän Heikias Maito polkka (Heikki Syrjälä’s Milk polka)
For Maria’s Thursday night Fiddle 3, he taught . . .
and
At his September 6 workshop Arto taught three archaic Finnish tunes . . .
For Colby’s “Four-String Improvisation” class, Arto taught a schottische . . .
Also, check out posts for Paul’s Fiddle 3 and Fiddle 4 (Week 1). In Fiddle 3, Arto taught Pollonesa #1 (a Polonaise) and in Fiddle 4 it was Rahapolska (a wedding polska).
Filed under: General Interest by Paul | September 11, 2009 | Comments (2)
Report on the Finnish square dance at First Friday
What a gas! Eight folks came to the Resource Center see the film “The Night Quadrille” about the exuberant crowd of dancers who close the Kaustinen Folk Festival every year with a huge square dance called variously the ‘Night Quadrille’ or the ‘Huutokatrilli’ (that is, shouted square dance).
Another bunch joined in for some hot dancing upstairs. One group of eight couples danced for about 25 minutes straight to the marvelous medley of tunes fiddled by Arto Järvelä, our guest artist-in-residence from Kaustinen, Finland. Our own Walter Hoijka thumped along on piano. Paul Tyler was the “shouter” (aka, the caller).
A second smaller set danced the quadrille for about 15 minutes. Lynn Garren caught part of that on video and uploaded it to YouTube. Have a look-see.
Filed under: General Interest by Paul | September 5, 2009 | Comments (0)
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.
Arto plays for the quadrille at the Kaustinen Folk Festival
(click to enlarge)
Filed under: General Interest,Paul Tyler by Paul | August 31, 2009 | Comments (0)
Folk & Roots 2009 is a Fiddle Fest!
Hei, Fiddlers and Friends,
You don’t want to miss the Folk & Roots Festival in Welles Park, July 11 & 12. Check out all the fiddle music you can hear at this post on Fiddle Club of the World blog.
It all starts on Thursday night with a Dance Tent preview in Giddings Plaza in Lincoln Square. The two bands featured there include four Old Town School fiddle teachers: Maria and Paul in the Fantastic Toe Trippers Orchestra, Walter and Jordan in Dr. Hojka’s Medicine Show.
And the Fantastic Toe Trippers can warm you up for a fiddle-filled week with an appearance at Phyllis’s Musical Inn on Sunday, July 5 at 9 pm. (Come early and here early country music by a group of fellow Old Town School students and friends, Nobody Nobody Sent.) Phyllis’s Musical in is at 1800 W. Division. Here’s a map.
Rosin those bows.
Filed under: General Interest,Paul Tyler by Paul | July 3, 2009 | Comments (0)
Old Time Ensemble Graduation at Paddy O’Splaines
What a great night. Lotsa folks played their hearts out. Two Old Time Ensembles (4 bands), Early Country Ensemble and two banjo classes. And fiddle classes. Jim’s Fiddle I, my Fiddle 3 and Walter’s brand new Fiddle 4: New England
We’ll do it again in 8 weeks. Here’s “Get Aboard the Ship” by Jim, Steve & yours truly.
Paul
Filed under: General Interest,Old Time Ensemble,Uncategorized by Gregg | February 26, 2009 | Comments (2)
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