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Maiden’s Prayer – Fiddle Tune a Day – Day 37
I think Maiden’s Prayer is the prettiest of Bob Wills’ tunes. It’s also a nice one to play as a twin fiddle tune. Unfortunately, tonight I didn’t have any one to play it with me. And, if you like the variation, you can thank Danita (Rast) Gardner, since I borrowed that variation quite liberally from [...]
Polly (Metric) Put the Kettle On
This is a video of Fiddler, Sandra Wong, and Tabla player, Ty Burhoe, at a house concert in Fort Collins, CO. It was a great concert, and it’s always fun to see people doing creative things with traditional music. More about Sandra Wong:http://sandrawongmusic.com/ More about Ty Burhoe: http://www.tyburhoe.com/
Cincinnati Hornpipe – Fiddle Tune a Day – Day 36
When I was 15, I had an opportunity to study fiddling with Dale Morris. It was my first time travelling on my own, first time to fly on an airplane, and Texas was a foreign land. Everybody drove Lincolns, Cadillacs, or pickup trucks, and everybody called each other “hun”. I learned a lot from Dale [...]
Planxty Fanny Powers – Fiddle Tune a Day – Day 35
What a great trip to Austin. Today, I got to see my good college friends, Earnest Mazique, and Christopher Gandin Le. We had lunch at a hip restaurant in north Austin called Mother’s Cafe. Conveniently enough, there was an Irish harpist playing there by the name of Doc Grauzer. I hummed for him the first [...]
I Know My Baby Loves Me – Fiddle Tune a Day – Day 34
Growing up in Northern Colorado, Hot Rize was one of my favorite bluegrass bands. I even got to see them play at Centennial Village, in Greeley before they got famous. The best part about Hot Rize was when the intermission would come and they would come back as their Alter Egos – Red Knuckles and [...]
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