Posted in fiddle, traditional music, tagged Chattanooga, fiddles, Jefferson Heights, old time music, Southside on May 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Due to a scheduling/weather snafu, we got bumped out of our usual spot at the Market Street Tavern tonight just after we started our old time jam. Luckily, the house isn’t too far away, and miraculously, it was even clean enough for guests, so we negotiated with the kind tavern for a case of beer [...]
Posted in captured sound, hammered dulcimer, improvisation, traditional music, tagged Appenzell, Christie Burns, Cimbalom World Association, Flying to the Fleadh, hammered dulcimer, Irish traditional music on May 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is what happens when you stay up too late vainly googling yourself. I found this mp3 that my friend Paul Beck had posted in the CWA (Cimbalom World Association) online forum sometime after the 2003 congress in Appenzell, Switzerland. It’s a clip from my solo performance, where I was simultaneously representing Ireland [...]
Posted in hammered dulcimer, improvisation, tagged Bose stick, Chattanooga, Christie Burns, hammered dulcimer, improvisation, Jefferson Heights on May 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Weee! I just got my brand new Bose stick sound system (L1 model II), set it all up, plugged in my dulcimer (the Masterworks) and took off on some kind of improvisation using the delay effect. Ain’t ya proud, Dan? Ok, so this is like way a lot of fun… I’ll keep [...]
Posted in hammered dulcimer, original music, tagged Chattanooga, mothers day on May 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This past Sunday, Butch and I were playing our first of many Sundays out at the aquarium. He’d gotten up for a bathroom break, so I was left there alone to improvise on my dulcimer. A small meditation on my mother, and Mothers Day in general, is what came out. When Butch [...]
Posted in hammered dulcimer, tagged Chattanooga, Creek Hill Dulcimers, Flying to the Fleadh, hammered dulcimer, Ned Smith on May 8, 2008 | No Comments »
There’s a funny thing happening around Chattanooga these days. There are hammered dulcimer players living on streets across from other dulcimer players, the sole dulcimer players’ magazine in the USA is published on Signal Mountain, dulcimer players can be found on the street and in churches all over town, at festivals, parties, art galleries… [...]
