Tunes Played in October, 2013
A great turnout this month, thanks in part (I think) to a couple of notes that went out to the Old-Time Seattle mailing list. These are the tunes we played, or at least the tunes I wrote down: Sandy Boys …
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Red Onion Jam Report
I went to the new Tuesday night jam at the Red Onion Tavern in Madison Park this week to check out the new space and see how I felt about playing with that group of folks. Driving there was super …
Dusty Strings Jam, 2013/10/13
Stuart Williams, music editor of the Washington Old-Time Fiddlers’ Association, hosted this month’s jam at Dusty Strings. The tunes played were: Tune of the month: Chuck in the Bush Soldier’s Joy Saint Anne’s Reel Little Rabbit, Where’s Your Mama? Arkansas …
Conor Byrne Jam Has Moved
Just a quick note to anyone who reads this but isn’t subscribed to the Seattle Old-Time mailing list: The regular Tuesday jam/old-time social which has been at Conor Byrne in Ballard for the last six years has moved. There’s been …
Stonewall Jackson
Tonight’s tune from the Canote brothers’ string band class was “Stonewall Jackson”, collected by Garry Harrison from Harvey “Pappy” Taylor of Effingham, Illinois. Here are the Canotes and Candy Goldman playing it: (download) There’s a recording of the Indian Creek …
Old Mose
Tonight’s tune from the Canote brothers’ stringband class was “Old Mose”, collected by Garry Harrison from Howard Sims, of Modesto, Illinois. He had it in C, but Dan Gellert sets it in G, which is the key we learned it …
Gentleman From Virginia
I’ve started going to the Canote brothers’ stringband workshop, and will post recordings from those as a backup to the mossyroof archive. Tonight we learned a tune by North Carolina fiddler Tommy Hunter called “Gentleman From Virginia”: (download) Here’s the Foghorn Stringband …
Tunes Played in September, 2013
I’d mis-advertised the September jam as a week later than it actually was, plus a number of folks were out of town, so it was just me and Cam this month. Since there weren’t any other fiddlers, I decided to …
Dusty Strings Jam, 2013/09/08
Tunes played at the Dusty Strings jam this afternoon: Me and My Fiddle Red-haired Boy Tune of the Month: unnamed tune from Jim Ketterman Whiskey Before Breakfast Lost Indian Soldier’s Joy Wind that Shakes the Barley Blue Tail Fly (Jimmy …
Red Prairie Dawn
I came back from Fiddle Tunes a little obsessed with fiddle tunes from the Midwest, which hadn’t really been on my radar until now. I was especially taken with some tunes written by Garry Harrison, who died tragically young last …