Two big events for July
9th Midwest Fiddle Championship
Open Division 1st Round & Youth/Family Division Finals
Thursday, July 7 at 7pm in the concert hall
Old Town School of Folk Music (4544 Lincoln)
Admission is free
Square & Ceilidh Dance
Sunday, July 17 at 6:30-9:30pm
Atlantic Bar & Grill (5062 Lincoln)
Music by the Fiddle Club of the World
Calling by Paul Tyler
No partner or experience needed.
All dances will be taught.
Admission $5 for dancers
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Thank you.
Paul Tyler, convener
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Upcoming Events – Summer 2011
Support Your Local (& Global) Fiddler
Join the Chicago Chapter of the Fiddle Club of the World
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Square & Ceilidh Dance workshop
Sunday, June 19, 6:30 – a dry run for Fiddle Club players,* dancers welcome
Check the tune list below.
9th Midwest Fiddle Championship
Youth/Family Division – July 1, 5:30 – 7:00 PM, in the concert hall at 909 W. Armitage Avenue
Open Division 1st Round & Youth/Family Semi-Finals – Thursday, July 7, 7:00 – 10:00 PM in the concert Hall at 4544 N. Lincoln Avenue
Open Division Finals & Youth/Family Finals – Saturday, July 9 at 12:30 PM, Folk & Roots Festival main stage in Welles Park
You should enter.
Everyone is welcome to come listen and cheer. Free admission to 1st Round and Semi-Finals.
More info at Chicago Folk & Roots Festival
Square & Ceilidh Dance
Sunday, July 17, 6:30 – the real thing
Admission for dancers: $5
Visit and join the Fiddle Club of the World Facebook group.
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Tunes from Sule Greg Wilson
Concert & Jam Session (click for more info about our featured guest)
Sunday, May 29, 6:30p
Atlantic Bar & Grill (5062 Lincoln)
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To register, click one of these options.
Single meeting dues of $15, register by date (05/29).
Yearly subscription of $60 gives you admission to all Fiddle Club events (usually the 3rd Sunday)
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For your listening pleasure, here are a couple of tunes from Sule Greg Wilson from the Sankofa Strings (aka Carolina Chocolate Drops) CD, Colored Aristocracy Johnny Too Bad && Black Eyed Daisy && |
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The tunes below are for the jam session that will follow Sule’s concert. Press the arrows to listen or right-click the blue title to download and save on your computer.
Colored Aristocracy (work on this one for the session)
Old Joe Clark from a Carolina Chocolate Drops performance in Arizona
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Woyaya, an African song
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Tunes from Kathleen Keane
Concert & Jam Session (click for more info about our featured guest)
Sunday, May 15, 6:30p
Atlantic Bar & Grill (5062 Lincoln)
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To register, click one of these options.
Single meeting dues of $15, register by date (05/15).
Yearly subscription of $60 gives you admission to all Fiddle Club events (usually the 3rd Sunday)
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For your listening pleasure, here’s a tune from Kathleen Keane’s new CD, Where the Wind Meets the Water (2011) . . . The Gypsy Reel / The Quarter Inch Wick && && And from her eponymous first CD (1999) . . . Unknown / The Ships Are Sailing && |
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The tunes below are for the jam session and workshop. Each is played slowly, at first, then faster. Press the arrows to listen or right-click the blue title to download and save on your computer.
Cuz Teahan’s Polka (Terrence “Cuz” Teahan was a notable concertina player and teacher in Chicago’s Irish community in the last decades of the 20th century.)
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Tom Sullivan’s Polka
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East to Glendart – Jig
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Filed under: Tunes by Paul | May 7, 2011 | Comments (0)
Meetings for Spring and Summer 2011
All events happen at the Atlantic Bar & Grill (5062 Lincoln)
Good news. You can now join Fiddle Club of the World for $60 yearly dues. This allows you to 1) support our effort to bring notable fiddlers to the Old Town School for friendly and up close interactions with our local players, 2) save up to 50% off of single meeting dues, and 3) get a cool Fiddle Club card with your name and renewal date inscribed.
Kathleene Keane
Sunday, May 15, 6:30p – Irish
| A star of stage and screen–really–Kathleen once taught Irish step-dancing at the Old Town School and was a featured dancer in the Green Fields of America tour. She played tinwhistle in The Drovers (with whom she appeared in the film Backdraft as well as in the Tom Hanks movie, Road to Perdition. More recently, Kathleen has made her mark as a fine Irish fiddler. She toured for three years with Gaelic Storm, with whom she earned a #2 spot on the Billboard World Music chart, earned a #1 spot on the same chart with a song composed for the Windham Hill Celtic Christmas album, and recently released her first solo CD–Where the Wind Meets the Water–with a sell-out concert at the Mayne Stage. Fiddle Club offers a chance for an up close and friendly musical experience with our own Kathleen Keane. | 
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Sule Greg Wilson
Sunday, May 29, 6:30 – Black Old-Time
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Sule is the first non-fiddler to be a featured guest at Fiddle Club of the World. During a long career as a dancer, drummer and educator, he took up the banjo as he became enthralled with the instruments historical and musical connections to the African diaspora. An organizer of the historic Black Banjo Then & Now conference held in 2005, Sule was a founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. He is currently working with the Drops and our own Reggio “The Hoofer” McLaughlin on a new production being sponsored by the Old Town School. He’ll take a break from their rehearsal gathering in May, to give us a program of African-American banjo tunes and open us up to the rhythmic potential of old-time music. Sule is a fabulous teacher, so don’t miss this one. |
Single dues for a meeting with a featured fiddler are $15. Register here by date.
Or you may choose the yearly dues option for $60.
Square & Ceilidh Dance workshop
Sunday, June 19, 6:30 – a dry run for Fiddle Club players,* dancers welcome
Square & Ceilidh Dance
Sunday, July 17, 6:30 – the real thing
Admission for dancers: $5
* To be a Fiddle Club player, come to a Fiddle Club event. There are no single dues for meetings at which we just play tunes, watch films or dance. Come and join us, even if you don’t have a Fiddle Club card. If you decide to register for one, we appreciate your support.
Filed under: Meeting Schedule by Paul | April 25, 2011 | Comments (0)
Dance Band Practice
Square & Ceilidh Dance – July 17
I’ll call and teach the dances. You, Fiddle Club players, will be the band. There are tunes to be learned. We’ll start working on them at the Atlantic on Sunday April 17 at 6:30p. Don’t worry. I’ll make sure everybody knows them.
Here’s a tune book I made.
Note: a revised and corrected edition of the tune book is coming soon.
And here are the tunes . . .
Old-Time tunes for square and ceilidh dances
Ten Cents Chirps Smith – April ’08
Streak o’ Lean Pete Sutherland – October ’09
Daylight in the Morning Jim & Kim Lansford – July ’10
Granny Alan Jabbour – October ’08
Who’ll Cut the Britches Genevieve & Smith Koester – April ’10
Fire on the Mountain Matt Brown – May ’10
Sugar in the Gourd Paul Brown (Mostly Mountain Boys) – June ’10
She Oughta Been a Lady Vesta Johnson – October ’10 (from the jam session)
Steppin’ in the Parlour Bruce Greene – April ’11 (recording from Bruce’s visit in 1996)
Couple dances
Koputus polkka Arto Järvelä’s – September ’09
Hast Schottis Mary Allsopp – January ’11
plus 3 more tunes on this earlier post.
Filed under: Meeting Schedule,Tunes by Paul | April 17, 2011 | Comments (1)
A Friday Night Fiddle Club this week!
Bruce Greene
April 15, 8:30p
The Atlantic (5062 Lincoln)
There are some tunes on an earlier post below, played slow. Here are some more, played fast.
These are from Bruce’s last visit to the Old Town School in 1996.
Steppin’ in the Parlor (Bruce taught this tune to the Old Time Ensemble)
Wolf Creek
(This one is a variant of one my favorites that I learned from Lotus Dickey: ie, Dickey’s Discovery.)
Go here to register for this meeting – $15. Be aware the new yearly dues option may appear on this page any day now.
Also, Bruce will be giving a workshop on Eastern Kentucky fiddle tunes on Saturday at the Old Town School. Click here to register.
Paul Tyler, convener
PS. There are more of Bruce’s tunes on my website–drdosido.net–that you might enjoy. Some were recorded at informal sessions; others from the annual Fiddlers Reunion held at the Adler Cultural Center in Libertyville in the 1990s.
Filed under: Tunes by Paul | April 14, 2011 | Comments (0)
Tunes for the Square & Ceilidh Dance
Dance band practice April 17 and June 19. We’ll workshop some of the tunes and dances on June 19. The full dance is scheduled for July 17.
Tacco e Punta (aka Patacake Polka)
Here’s a fun video from Italy of the Tacco e Punta (Heel & Toe?) dance.
Raatikko a dance known among Finns, Germans and other Euro-Americans
Give these variants a listen, Ein Zwie Drie und a Fier, from Joe Altman & the Spaasmachers, a German band in St. Meinrad, Indiana and The Seven Step, by a Bohemian Polka band in New Braunfels, Texas.
The Seven Step, a different dance and a different tune in the key of G
I learned it in D from Wayne Satkamp of Stendahl, Indiana and Herb Wenning of Portersville, Indiana, who played it in G. Here’s a video of The Seven Step as danced by the Ukrainians and Métis of Manitoba.
And we have to play a schottische. One of the most fun dances ever.
Hast Schottische slow from Mary Allsopp (see Jan 16th meeting)
We played the Hast Schottis before. Next time, we’ll have more dancers.
Paul Tyler, convener
Fiddle Club of the World (Chicago Chapter)
Filed under: Tunes by Paul | April 10, 2011 | Comments (0)
Ain’t this a time
Lots o’ fun coming our way. And beginning this week (say April 12), you should be able to sign up for a year’s worth of Fiddle Club meetings for a mere $60. Single meeting dues are $15, when there is a featured guest. Here is the link to register for a meeting. They are listed by date. Scroll through the workshop listings for descriptions.
Bruce Greene
Friday, April 15, 8:30 – Old-Time
An earlier post has a couple of tunes to learn for the jam session.
dance band practice
Sunday, April 17, 6:30 – all members welcome *
(I will soon post some tunes for the dance.)
Kathleene Keane
Sunday, May 15, 6:30 – Irish
Sule Greg Wilson
Sunday, May 29, 6:30 – Black Old-Time
Square & Ceilidh Dance workshop
Sunday, June 19, 6:30 – a dry run for musicians, dancers welcome
Square & Ceilidh Dance
Sunday, July 17, 6:30 – the real thing
Admission for dancers: $5
All events happen at the Atlantic Bar & Grill (5062 Lincoln)
* To be a member, come to a Fiddle Club event. Yearly dues are $60. Single meeting dues are $15 when we have a special guest. There are no dues for other meetings at which we just play tunes or watch films. We appreciate your support.
Paul Tyler, convener
Fiddle Club of the World (Chicago Chapter)
Filed under: Meeting Schedule by Paul | April 10, 2011 | Comments (0)
Bruce Greene comes to Fiddle Club
Friday April 15 at 8:30 pm
Atlantic Bar & Grill (5062 Lincoln)
Good fortune brings Bruce Greene to us in a few weeks. A sublime player, Bruce learned from senior players in Central and Eastern Kentucky back during his student days in the early 1970s. He deserves credit for discovering many of the old masters we cherish–such as John Salyer and Isham Monday–and for recording and disseminating some of our favorite tunes, like “Jeff Sturgeon,” “Betty Baker” and “The Lost Girl.” This is his first trip to the Old Town School since 1996, when he visited the Old-Time Ensemble.
Click the picture to see the Bruce’s entry in the Old-Time Fiddlers Hall of Fame.
Here are some tunes to learn before April 15.
Did You Ever See the Devil, Uncle Joe?
slow version
Paddy in the Morning
slow version
Click this link to register for the Fiddle Club of the World. You have to scroll down to April 15. Scroll a bit further and you can sign up for a workshop with Bruce at the Old Town School (4544 Lincoln)
Eastern Kentucky Fiddle Tunes with Bruce Greene
Saturday 04/16/2011 from 1:30 PM to 3:20 PM
Filed under: Meeting Schedule,Tunes by Paul | March 27, 2011 | Comments (0)
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