Posted in traditional music, tagged Chattanooga, old time music, banjo, Matt Evans on June 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
After all the excitement of the Chattanooga Dulcimer Festival last weekend, it all boiled down to a few modal tunes I got to share with Matt Evans at the old time jam last Monday. After a weekend of wailing away on my dulcimer, we quieted down with “Texas” and “Falls of Richmond” all slow and [...]
Posted in banjo, fiddle, traditional music, tagged bluegrass, Campbell County, Ethan Ferguson, Tennessee on June 15, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Sometime late in 2007 I met little Ethan Ferguson at a campfire at the Cove Lake State Park in Campbell County, TN. He was playing fiddle, I was playing dulcimer, and we mutually became each other’s biggest fans that day. I was lucky to run into Ethan again this past weekend at the [...]
Posted in hammered dulcimer, traditional music, tagged Booth Shot Lincoln, Butch and Christie, hammered dulcimer, JAMFest, Jubilee of Acoustic Music, Little Billy Wilson on June 2, 2008 | No Comments »
This past weekend, Butch and I performed at JAMFest in Lee’s Summit, MO. (near Kansas City) We put on the usual Butch and Christie show for them, complete with angry game and all. Angry game = When Butch and I know a tune perhaps a little too well, we’ll stare at each [...]
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 fiddle, traditional music, tagged Butch Ross, Chattanooga, Joseph DeCosimo, McCallie, Old Aunt Jenny With Her Nightcap On, old time music on April 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Whoooooa cool tune alert! Butch and I were asked to come play at McCallie tonight, and Joseph DeCosimo was also on the bill. Lucky us! Joe taught us this tune outside before the show, and even though Butch is just finding his way around the chords in this video, we nailed it [...]
Posted in fiddle, improvisation, traditional music, tagged fiddle, ni:d, soprano saxophone, swedish music on April 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Just ran across this video on Youtube…. Gotta love the way these Swedes interpret Poor Man’s Troubles, an American fiddle tune. Also, I think I recognize that percussionist from the Swedish band who crashed the festival in Gooik, Belgium, last summer. Incredible music.
Posted in fiddle, hammered dulcimer, traditional music, tagged fiddle, hornpipe, irish music, Rick and Brandy on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Luxury of luxuries! I stepped out my front door the other evening and saw that my across-the-street neighbors, Rick and Brandy, had their front door open. So of course I peeked in to see what they were up to, and their dining room was full of Irish musicians! And they were all working at learning [...]
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 [...]
