Tunes from Paul Brown & Mostly Mountain Boys
Paul and the mostly boys will be part of the FIDDLEPALOOZA on Tuesday, June 8, 8pm at the Old Town School, along with the Polka Chicks. Here are a couple of tunes the Mostly Mountain Boys will help us through Sugar in the Gourd Shady Grove fiddle & guitar Click here for some tunes by the Polka Chicks. Click here to register for Fiddlepalooza. (Steve Rosen’s Fiddle 3 and Paul Tyler’s Fiddle 4 students for this session are already registered.) Filed under: Tunes by Paul | May 31, 2010 | Comments (0) Tunes from the Polka ChicksA selection of tunes from the Polka Chicks, from Finland. Along with the Mostly Mountain Boys, they will participate in the Fiddlepalooza at the Old Town School on Tuesday, June 8 at 8pm. The next day, June 9, both groups will be on stage for World Music Wednesday at 8:30. Press the arrows to listen or right-click the blue title to download and save on your computer. “. . . a polska and a waltz, which are both traditional tunes from Swedish-speaking areas in Finland. The tunes are called ‘Bromarvin polska’ (Polska from Bromarv, situated on a cape by the southern coast of Finland) and ‘Viktors Vals’ (from a small village called Jeppo in Ostrobothnia, Finnish west coast).” Bromarv polska ” . . . a traditional polka played by a horn orchestra from Hattula, a county in Häme-region which is situated kind of in the southern-middle Finland. The tune is called ‘Ampumakoulun polkka’ which means ‘Shooting school polka’.” Ampumakoulun polkka Click here from some workshop tunes from Paul Brown & the Mostly Mountain Boys. Click here to register for Fiddlepalooza. (Steve Rosen’s Fiddle 3 and Paul Tyler’s Fiddle 4 students for this session are already registered.) Filed under: Tunes by Paul | May 15, 2010 | Comments (0) Jim & Kim Lansford – July 16
Hear here . . . Filed under: Meeting Schedule by Paul | May 15, 2010 | Comments (0) Fiddlepalooza – Tueday, June 8Tuesday, June 8, 8pm at the Old Town School Two bands from two traditions of old-time music – Finnish and American – the evening will be part workshop, part visit, and part jam session. Members of Steve Rosen’s Fiddle 3 and Paul Tyler’s Fiddle 4 will attend Fiddlepalooza in lieu of their regular class. All fiddlers, banjoists, mandolinists, guitarists, accordionists and friends of old-time music are welcome. Check back with this blog for some tunes to learn for the jam session. Click here to register for Fiddlepalooza.
Click one of the following links to listen to and learn some tunes from the Polka Chicks and from the Mostly Mountain Boys. The Polka Chicks and the Mostly Mountain Boys will share the bill on June 9 at the Old Town School’s World Music Wednesdays. Click here for more info or to reserve tickets. Filed under: Meeting Schedule by Paul | May 15, 2010 | Comments (0) Traditional Fiddling from AustriaA free meeting – Sunday, June 6 Rudi Pietsch of the band Die Tanzgeiger (the Dance Fiddlers) from Vienna Rudi, a fiddler and ethnomusicologist, is currently a visiting professor at the University of Chicago. The Old Town School has assisted his endeavors in Chicago, and in return, he wants to introduce us to a rich tradition of fiddling we know little about. Here are some samples from <a href="“>Die Tanzgeiger. Filed under: Meeting Schedule by Paul | May 15, 2010 | Comments (0) Fiddle Club summer happenings – 2010This is going to be a summer full of great tunes. Keep your bow rosined. Get those banjos in tune. Listen for the chord changes . . . TRADITIONAL FIDDLING FROM AUSTRIA
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Click here for more information. NB: important update coming soon. [Registration information under construction] FELIPE VALLE from Mexico City -Paul Tyler, convener Filed under: Meeting Schedule by Paul | May 15, 2010 | Comments (0) A delectable treat (un delicioso gusto)From the Huasteca region, i.e., northern Veracruz. That’s in Mexico. The fiddler is Osiris Caballero who visited Fiddle 4 Twin Fiddle last week. His group, Los Utrera performed at World Music Wednesday the next night. Thanks to Yahvi Pichardo for arranging this visit. Yahvi and Maria McCullough assist in this rendition of La Cielito Lindo. Another version in the Son Huasteca style can be found on the CD Folk Songs of Illinois #2: Fiddlers, played by Chicago’s own Sones de Mexico. Full disclosure: I co-produced this CD. Paul Tyler, convener Filed under: Musings, Tunes by Paul | May 15, 2010 | Comments (0) Tunes from Matt BrownA selection of tunes from Matt Brown, one of the rising stars in the old-time music firmament. Press the arrows to listen or right-click the blue title to download and save on your computer. Roscoe Fire on the Mountain Cumberland Gap Matt Brown visits the Fiddle Club of the World meeting on Sunday, May 2 at 6:30pm at the Leadway Bar & Gallery (5233 N. Damen) in Chicago. Click here to register. Filed under: Tunes by Paul | April 18, 2010 | Comments (0) Tunes from Genevieve (Harrison) KoesterA selection of tunes from Dear Old Illinois (both a place and the life work of Genevieve’s father, Garry Harrison). Gena plays with her dad in the New Mules, a band featured at the Old Town School’s Trad Fest in January 2008. The first of these tunes is from the David McIntosh collection of folksongs from Southern Illinois from the middle of the last century. The next two are tunes Garry collected from downstate fiddlers 30 years ago. Press the arrows to listen or right-click the blue title to download and save on your computer. Across the Plains of Illinois “Source version is unaccompanied ballad singing by Ollie Barnard of Cave-in-Rock, IL. . . . I’ll sing all the words when we all get together but it has a nice tune by itself too.” Sally Johnson from “Otis Reynolds of Geff, IL. There are a million versions of Sally Johnson, and most of them are very note-y and embellished. This one is the opposite. Who’ll Cut the Britches? from Henry Soper of Mt. Vernon, IL. “The full title given by Mr. Soper was the verse: Genevieve Koester will be the featured guest at the Fiddle Club of the World meeting on Sunday, April 18 at 6:30pm at the Leadway Bar & Gallery (5233 N. Damen) in Chicago. Click here to register. Filed under: Tunes by Paul | April 5, 2010 | Comments (0) Some Tunes from Dennis StroughmattSome tunes from Upper Louisiana, aka the old French district of Illinois and Missouri, straddling the Mississippi River down from St. Louis. Dennis here gives us a brief intro to each tune. More stories to come on March 18 at the Leadway. Press the arrows to listen or right-click the blue title to download and save on your computer. Old Man Lucky in the key of D: “Old Man Lucky I learned from Charlie Pashia, right at the source. It was a song (no lyrics) for a guy named LaChance. He was a lucky man, and that was his name too.” Grandmere In waltz time in G: “Grandmere is a story song. It means Grandmother Complains. I learned it from Ida Portell in Potosi , MO.” D’ou Viens in A: “D’ou Viens Tu is iShepherd, from where did you come.’ It’s a Christmas song. Also from Ida Portell. But I got the fiddle part idea from Roy Boyer.” Dennis Stroughmatt will be the featured guest at the Fiddle Club of the World meeting on Sunday, March 28 at 6:30pm at the Leadway Bar & Gallery (5233 N. Damen) in Chicago. Click here to register. Filed under: Tunes by Paul | March 15, 2010 | Comments (0) Classes
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