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Mandolin contest at the 2009 Old Time Fiddler's Convention at Goleta, 1st place. The tune is Howdy Forrester's Brilliancy via Sam Bush. Connor Van...
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Mandolin contest at the 2009 Old Time Fiddler's Convention at Goleta, 1st place. The tune is Howdy Forrester's Brilliancy via Sam Bush. Connor Vance provides reliable backup. He took 2nd place on mandolin himself, so next year he probably wins the mandoln division.
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fiddlefestival uploaded a new video
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More Southwest Fiddle tunes, these are all from New Mexico. Neighborhood jam at a labor day blockparty in Santa Monica, CA.
Traditionally, El Churr...
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More Southwest Fiddle tunes, these are all from New Mexico. Neighborhood jam at a labor day blockparty in Santa Monica, CA.
Traditionally, El Churrumbe is not a polka, but it works well as one.The other one is a polka. Jenny Vincent recorded it as Polka Nr. 3, we call it Polka sin Nombre.
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fiddlefestival uploaded a new video
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Neigborhood jam of Southwest fiddle tunes in Santa Monica at a labor day block party.
These three tunes are from Arizona. Traditional Southwest Fid...
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Neigborhood jam of Southwest fiddle tunes in Santa Monica at a labor day block party.
These three tunes are from Arizona. Traditional Southwest Fiddle styles sound a lot more Mexican (or Central European) than the better known Old-Time Southeast style.
The last two tunes are recorded on the Gu-Achi Fiddlers CD of music of the Tohono O'odham people of Southern Arizona. I believe Purple Lilies is from the Tohono O'odham repertoire as well, but I learned it from Bayou Seco (Ken Keppeler and Jeanie McLerie) of Silver City, New Mexico.
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fiddlefestival uploaded a new video
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A great fiddle tune from the American Southwest: Purple Lilies.
I play it through once quickly and then go slowly phrase-by-phrase. I play it on the...
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A great fiddle tune from the American Southwest: Purple Lilies.
I play it through once quickly and then go slowly phrase-by-phrase. I play it on the mandolin rather than fiddle because the frets make it clearer where exactly the notes are. The fingering is identical, of course, and the tunes sound best on fiddle. Single bows work just fine.
In contrast to the better known Southeast Old-time fiddle style, Southwestern fiddle tunes (Arizona, New Mexico, California) sound decidedly more Mexican - or maybe more central European compared to the the stronger Irish/Scottish influence in old-time. Southwest fiddle tunes work great in jams once you have a critical mass. Purple Lilies is one of the best known tunes, thanks to the efforts of Bayou Seco (Ken Keppeler and Jeanie McLerie) of Silver City, New Mexico, who have kept that style alive and brought it to new players.
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fiddlefestival uploaded a new video
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Slow teaching video of a old-time fiddle tune from New Mexico: El Churrumbe. I play it through once quickly and then go slowly phrase-by-phrase. I ...
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Slow teaching video of a old-time fiddle tune from New Mexico: El Churrumbe. I play it through once quickly and then go slowly phrase-by-phrase. I play on mandolin rather than fiddle because the frets make it easier to see where the notes are. Same fingering otherwise and single bows work fine on this tune.
A fun tune to play, yet simple that it works very well at jams - most recently at an unlikely place: the 2009 Valley of the Moon Scottish fiddle camp. Quite a few people who couldn't quite pick it up immediately asked for it, so here you go at slow speed.
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