Posted in captured sound, hammered dulcimer, original music, tagged hammered dulcimer, Lisa Ferguson, Main Street, Southside Chattanooga on March 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m glad this blog is about all kinds of music I encounter on a daily/weekly basis, so I’m free to post a clip of someone else playing the hammered dulcimer. Lisa Ferguson and I got lucky with two last-minute gigs this weekend. The first one, Saturday night, was at CreateHere on Main Street. [...]
Posted in hammered dulcimer, traditional music, tagged Dwight Diller, Lee Valley Boys, westfork gals on March 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I just was experimenting with the new recording function of my iPod, and decided to play a bit with one of my favorite old time tunes. I first heard this tune in Cork at Monday night sessions with Mick Daly and the Lee Valley Boys, and fell in love with it all over again when [...]
Posted in hammered dulcimer, original music, traditional music, tagged Budapest, Butch and Christie, dulcimer, Hungary on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
We just received word that the video of our first concert in Budapest has been posted! Once you’re on the page, use the small black scrollbar to scroll down, and click on the line that has my name on it… and then wait a while… It took quite a long time for the video to [...]
Posted in fiddle, hammered dulcimer, traditional music, voice, tagged Cork City, Emma Small, Ireland, Raar, Robin Turk, Stella Rodrigues, Tom Spackman, trad music on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
We could call this my St. Paddy’s Day special. And this time I’m reaching even further back in time to Spring, 2002, when five non-Irish people formed an Irish traditional band, and called themselves, “Raar,” meaning “strange” in Dutch… of course.
The band was a palindrome. Same backwards and forwards. Tom Spackman (USA) [...]
Posted in captured sound, hammered dulcimer, traditional music, voice, tagged Cork City, Fintan Lucy, Ireland, John Barleycorn on March 16, 2008 | No Comments »
This is another one I had to fetch with my time machine. I did spend a lovely Sunday afternoon today playing music with my new friend Bryan, but unfortunately, all the tunes I’d recorded came out as duds, because silly me, I haven’t learned how to use the recording function on my iPod yet. Grrrr.
Anyway, [...]
Posted in banjo, fiddle, hammered dulcimer, traditional music, tagged banjo, Breakin' Up Winter, fiddle, Gainsborough, hammered dulcimer, old time, Snowbird on March 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The first time I heard this tune, Snowbird, I was sitting in the all-purpose room of an elementary school in Gainsborough, England, and the guy playing it was a fiddle/banjo player from Vermont. I had recorded it then, back in 2004 with just me and him playing it, and have loved the tune ever since. [...]
Posted in captured sound, traditional music, voice, tagged Campbell County, jam, Jellico on March 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well it sounded to me like they were all singin’ the blues tonight in Jellico. These sweet, slow songs (or maybe they just seemed slow because I was expecting bluegrass)… All these guys and a couple o’ gals sitting around in their circle in this medium-sized cream-colored cinderblock room with stacks of folding chairs for [...]
Posted in hammered dulcimer, original music, voice, tagged Into the Sky, Malcolm Dalglish, Ooodoo on March 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Earlier this week I decided to order myself a birthday gift, and with some luck it actually arrived on my birthday! It’s Malcolm Dalglish’s latest, “Into the Sky.” It’s under the ensemble’s name, Ooodoo, which is himself, Moira Smiley, Naomi Dalglish, and Joshua Kartes, plus N. Scott Robinson a’tappin’ on all kinds of percussion. I [...]
