http://oldtownschool.org/connect/fiddleclub Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:00:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You've been there. You know that the Chicago Folk & Roots Festival is always a wealth of great music from all around the world. (If you haven't yet been, we've missed you. Come on down to Welles Park the weekend of July 11-12.) So many great fiddlers ... http://oldtownschool.org/connect/fiddleclub/2009/07/03/folk-roots-2009-is-a-fiddle-fest/ Besides being a good fiddler, Geoffrey Seitz is an excellent builder of fine violins. His shop in south St. Louis was recently featured in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch spread by photographer Erik Lunsford. Here, with permission from Mr. Lunsford, is a link to a slide-show about Seitz ... http://oldtownschool.org/connect/fiddleclub/2009/04/10/a-midwestern-violin-maker/ Click purple links to download or to listen to these .mp3s. Click here for tips and troubleshooting on how to get at these .mp3s. 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 ... http://oldtownschool.org/connect/fiddleclub/2009/03/30/report-on-dan-gellerts-visit-to-the-fiddle-club/ 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. ... http://oldtownschool.org/connect/fiddleclub/2009/03/23/some-tunes-from-dan-gellert/ 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 (click to enlarge) Lotus' tunes are always good to play. Here's a couple. Click here ... http://oldtownschool.org/connect/fiddleclub/2009/03/22/ive-been-thinking-about-lotus-dickey/ 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 ... http://oldtownschool.org/connect/fiddleclub/2009/03/17/dan-gellert-opens-a-new-fiddle-club-season/ 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 ... http://oldtownschool.org/connect/fiddleclub/2009/03/11/good-morning-fiddle-club-reawakens/ Click blue link to download or to listen to these .mp3s. or Click here for tips and troubleshooting on how to get at these .mp3s. or Here are some tunes played by Karen Solgrad on a Norwegian hardanger fiddle. or or Reiselaat fra Hallingdal Steffasgard or Trondelag Bridal March or or Go to Karen Solgard's transcriptions of these Norwegian tunes. or Karen Solgard will be ... http://oldtownschool.org/connect/fiddleclub/2008/11/18/tunes-from-karen-solgard/ These are Karen Solgard's transcriptions of some of Norwegian tunes for the hardanger fiddle. 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. ... http://oldtownschool.org/connect/fiddleclub/2008/11/17/notation-for-karen-solgard-tunes/ Click blue link to download or to listen to these .mp3s. or Click here for tips and troubleshooting on how to get at these .mp3s. or Alan learned all these tunes from Henry Reed (1884-1968) of Glen Lyn, West Virginia. or or Granny Slow and medium versions of Granny. or West Virginia Highway Slow and medium versions of West Virginia Highway ... http://oldtownschool.org/connect/fiddleclub/2008/10/15/alan-jabbour-tunes/