Pete Sutherland Tunes

Here are some Pete tunes, sent to us from the Champlain Valley of Vermont. These will be great to play in the jam. The reel is, in Pete’s words “from our local hero, Louis Beaudoin.” The second tune –pronounced tess-fie-yay–is an Ethiopian waltz song. The last is from the Skillet Lickers.

Dad’s Reel

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Tesfaye

Streak o’ Lean

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Pete Sutherland, along with Mark Roberts & Jeremiah McLane, will be performing at the Fiddle Club of the World’s meeting at 7:30 on Friday, October 16 at the Leadway Bar & Gallery (5233 N. Damen. Click here to register, or call 773.728.6000.
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Filed under: Tunes by Paul | September 28, 2009 | Comments (0)

Fiddle Club meetings for Fall 2009

Arto Jarvela by Kimmo Tahtinen
(click to enlarge) 		ARTO JÄRVELÄ – Sept. 25
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Arto Järvelä is a world-class musician from Järvelä, a small village just across the Perho River from the slightly less smaller town of Kaustinen, seismic center of the Finnish Folk Music explosion of the last few decades. Arto’s grandfather Johannes led the Järvelän Pelimannit (Järvelä Village Fiddlers) through the 1970s. Since then, Arto has made a name for himself as a solo fiddler and as a member of many important folk bands, such as Pinnin Pojat, the Helsinki Mandolinners and Nordic Tree. He perhaps is best known for JPP (short for Järvelän Pikkupelimannit, or little village fiddlers band).
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Arto will perform Finnish polskas, polkkas, sotiisis (schottisches) and more on fiddle and nyckleharpa (Swedish keyed-fiddle).
Nyckelharpa
Nyckelharpa
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 Arto Järvelä will play for the Fiddle Club of the World on
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 7:30pm
Leadway Bar & Gallery (5233 N. Damen)
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Click here to register for Arto’s visit to the Fiddle Club of the World
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Go here to download Arto’s jam session tunes.
PETE SUTHERLAND – Oct. 16
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Pete Sutherland is a fiddler’s fiddle (also a master songwriter and multi-insturmentalist). A native of Vermont’s Champlain Valley, Pete sojourned in southern Indiana during the 1980s, where your Fiddle Club convener was lucky enough to live, dance and soak up tunes. Pete’s band credits include Arm & Hammer Stringband, Metamora and the Clayfoot Strutters.
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Pete will be joined on his visit to the Fiddle Club by Jeremaiah McLane (piano & accordion) and Mark Roberts (flute & banjo). They are in town for a barn dance and workshops at the University of Chicago, where they will spin out more driving square dance and contra dance melodies to complete a great Fall weekend. 		Pete Sutherland
Pete Sutherland
Pete Sutherland
(click for more) 		Pete Sutherland, with Jeremiah McLane & Mark Roberts
will play for the Fiddle Club of the World on
Friday, October 16, 2009 at 7:30pm
Leadway Bar & Gallery (5233 N. Damen)
NB: location may be changed to a larger venue
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Click here to register for Pete’s visit to the Fiddle Club of the World
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Go here to download Pete’s jam session tunes

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RUTH BALL – Oct. 25
Ruth and her accompanist, Tom Cronin, are from Newcastle, England.
Unfortunately, the US Department of Homespun Inferiority might interfere with this meeting.
Plans for a substitute guest artist are underway. Stay tuned for more details
Ruth Ball
Ruth Ball
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KENNY STONE – Nov. 22
Chicagoland Bluegrass. Jam session tunes to be posted in October.

Kenny Stone
Kenny Stone of the Chicago Bluegrass Band
and a master folk artist for Traditional Arts Indiana 		Kenny Stone
Kenny Stone with Vi Wickham
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SEASON PASS for all four Fall 2009 Fiddle Club meetings is available through Sept. 25.
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All meetings scheduled for
Leadway Bar & Gallery
5233 N. Damen
Chicago, Illinois

-Paul Tyler, convener
Fiddle Club of the World (Chicago Chapter)

Filed under: Meeting Schedule by Paul | September 18, 2009 | Comments (0)

Arto Järvelä tunes notated

These transcriptions of Arto Järvelä’s tunes were made by Paul Tyler as a sketch of the general melody. Arto’s uses more fingered and bowed ornaments, double stops and subtle variations in playing the tunes. Listen carefully to the recordings, as posted here.
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Notation of Arto Jarvela tunes
Click on thumbnail to enlarge.
(The music sheet should print nicely.)
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Arto Järvelä will be performing at the Fiddle Club of the World’s meeting on Friday, September 25 at the Leadway Bar & Gallery (5233 N. Damen. Click here to register, or call 773.728.6000.
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Nota Bene: Musical notation is only a guide to one way to play a tune. Use the written notes along with the recordings. If you hear something different than what is written down, good. Trust your ears. Play what you hear.

Filed under: Notation by Paul | September 17, 2009 | Comments (0)

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.

Kostner Avenue Waltz

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.

A tune on nyckelharpa (aka keyed-fiddle)
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Hellstrand 1990 (composed by Arto Järvelä)

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and one on fiddle
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Jarvelan Antin polska

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Arto Järvelä with nyckelharpa
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Filed under: Musings by Paul | September 17, 2009 | Comments (0)

Arto Järvelä tunes

Here are solo fiddle performances by Arto of three tunes we can all play together at the jam. Arto learned both the march (marssi) and polska from Elias Tallari of Kuortane, Finland. The waltz (valssi) is “efter” (from the playing of) Johan Petter Ragvals of Övermark.

Peli-Jussin syömämarssi

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Peli-Jussin syömämarssi can also be heard on the CD “Arto Järvelä Plays Violin” (there is a tunebook with the same name) one of the many you can purchase from Arto during his residency at the Old Town School.

Mäläskän kuoleman polska

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Both polskas and waltzes are in 3/4 time. But it is easy to hear that they are for totally different dances.

Ragvalsin valssi

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Go here to view Paul Tyler’s notation of Arto’s tunes.

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Arto Järvelä will be performing at the Fiddle Club of the World’s meeting on Friday, September 25 at the Leadway Bar & Gallery (5233 N. Damen. Click here to register, or call 773.728.6000.
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Filed under: Tunes by Paul | September 7, 2009 | Comments (0)