Report on Dan Gellert’s visit to the Fiddle Club
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Over 30 fiddlers, pickers and fans showed up at the Leadway Bar & Gallery on North Damon on a Saturday night to hear Dan Gellert. After serenading us with a dozen wonderful old fiddle and banjo tunes, Dan and Debbie led a jam session for the next hour through a number of old chestnuts and few rare treasures.
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Here’s a few of the tunes Dan played in the Leadway’s back room. |
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The Fiddle Club of the World is not just for fiddlers. Players of all kinds are welcome to participate. And it’s okay to come just to listen.
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Filed under: Audio, Photos, Reports by Paul | March 30, 2009 | Comments (0)
Some Tunes from Dan Gellert
| Click blue link to download or to listen to these .mp3s. orClick here for tips and troubleshooting on how to get at these .mp3s. Dan sent us recordings of these tunes played at a moderate tempo. The first two are in the key of C. The third is in Bb. Be brave and give it a try. Just added, a D tune, from a 1985 album of Dan’s band, Shoofly. Send a comment and let us know which two of these four tunes you especially want to work through at the Fiddle Club session. Dan Gellert will be performing at the Fiddle Club of the World’s meeting on Saturday, March 28 at the Leadway Bar & Gallery. You can register for the Fiddle Club meetings as a workshop. Cost is $20. Call 773.728.6000 or to register on line, go here. Space is limited. |
Filed under: Tunes by Paul | March 23, 2009 | Comments (0)
I’ve been thinking about Lotus Dickey.
I just found this old photo of the Sugar Hill Serenaders, a band formed in the 1980s around Lotus Dickey to perform at school assemblies for Young Audiences of Indiana.
Lotus Dickey, Paul Tyler, John Bealle, Teri Klassen
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Lotus’ tunes are always good to play. Here’s a couple.
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Besides Lotus, the only Sugar Hill Serenader heard on these recordings is your humble correspondent, who is trying to follow on guitar on the first two. On the third piece, Lotus is accompanied by Linda Handelsman and Dillon Buston at the 1981 Indiana Fiddlers Gathering in Battle Ground. This trio appeared on an earlier post to this blog with a rendition of Oyster River Hornpipe.
If you want to know more about Lotus, check out the Lotus Dickey Music website maintained by Grey Larson. Lotus was a very fine fiddler. But he also made his mark as a songwriter. I remember him mostly as a sage elder, a keen eye on the world, and a good friend.
Enjoy.
Paul Tyler, convener
Filed under: Tunes by Paul | March 22, 2009 | Comments (0)
Dan Gellert opens a new Fiddle Club season
It’s a go. Fiddlers of all stripes, banjoists and all old-time music lovers should not miss this opportunity to sit up close to listen to Dan and play a few tunes. Some tunes for the jam session will be posted later this week.
March 28 (Sat) 8:00
Dan Gellert
Old-Time doesn’t get any better than this!
Leadway Bar and Gallery (5233 N. Damen)
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Sugar in the Gourd
From “Roustabout,” an LP documenting the 1976 Indiana Fiddlers Gathering (aka Battle Ground)
Black-Eyed Susie
From the 2006 Midwest Banjo Camp, with bones by Clif Ervin!
Follow this link to Dan’s website for more audio samples from his incredible new CD, “Waitin’ on the Break of Day.” You can buy it there, too.
To register, go here. Or you can browse through all the workshop listings at oldtownschool.org.
Filed under: Meeting Schedule by Paul | March 17, 2009 | Comments (0)
Good Morning! Fiddle Club reawakens
Spring is sprung.
The grass has riz.
I wonder where
my tulips is.
And if you’ve been wondering the same about the Fiddle Club of the World, I’m glad to tell you that it has reawakened from its Winter-long slumber. Announcements of a three or four meetings with featured guest artists will be coming soon.
For right now, mark your calendars for Saturday, March 28. Dan Gellert will be in town to perform and jam at a meeting of the Fiddle Club. As soon as I nail down a site, we’ll get the registration information posted here at in the workshop listings at oldtownschool.org.
In the meantime, check out the new fiddle pages at oldtownschool.org/fiddle. Teachers are posting information and links in the Flog (Fiddle Students Blog). All tunes are accessible through the archive link. You will also find a jukebox version of the Hands On CD.
Check back early and often.
Paul Tyler, convener
Fiddle Club of the World
Chicago Chapter
Filed under: Uncategorized by Paul | March 11, 2009 | Comments (0)
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