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Gerry Diver: The Speech Project – review
Cover of Alan Lomax"The idea is certainly original: take a series of interviews with well-known Irish musicians, and then mix short excerpts of speech with instrumental work that follows the rhythms of a spoken phrase. The interviewees include Christy Moore, Shane MacGowan, Damien Dempsey and traditional singer Margaret Barry (heard talking to folklorist Alan Lomax in 1953), and the music is
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Fiddle Tutorial - The Irish Washerwoman
Free online fiddle tutorial - learn an Irish jig, the Irish Washerwoman
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Music, dancing and storytelling highlight Celtic family
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Fiddle experts visit Skokie
Image by grepsy via FlickrRachel Baiman and Christian Sedelmyer aren’t just fiddlin’ around with their music.
They’re serious, committed young musicians, living in Nashville, and immersed in performing, writing, and exploring a wide range of folk and related styles, from traditional and bluegrass, to folk-rock, swing, and progressive. They are multi-instrumentalists but concentrate their music
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Stradivarius may be bit of a fiddle at more than $1m, say researchers
Image via WikipediaTHE reputation of the most expensive and revered violins in the world has taken a battering.
In an experiment, concert violinists were unable to pick out two Stradivarius violins from modern instruments, based on their sound alone. The findings were published this week.
The violins might differ in price by more than $1 million but the virtuoso musos opted for the cheaper,
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Fergal Scahill, Sean McCarthy & David Howley - Set Of Jigs
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‘Fastest fiddler’ bound for Carlow
Image via WikipediaThe holder of the Guinness World Record for “Fastest Fiddle Player in the World” is coming to Carlow’s GB Shaw Theatre as Frankie Gavin and De Dannan take to the stage on February 10.
Their 32-county tour is an effort by the band to “lift the hearts of the Irish people during this extraordinary economic climate in Ireland.”
The band’s current lineup has performed in locations
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Great Audience For Fiddle Christmas Concert
Image via WikipediaA great crowd enjoyed An Old Time Fiddle Christmas Concert with Patti Lamoureux at the Trinity United Church in Portage la Prairie. The 2 hour concert featured a three piece band with a variety of fiddle classics and some new tunes as well.
Event Committee Chair Diane Stevenson says a number of people in the area enjoy fiddle music and felt it was a great opportunity to host
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Fiddle player offers reward for stolen instruments
PORTLAND, Ore. – A Portland fiddle player is offering a reward for the return of his stolen instruments.
Luke Price is a fiddle teacher who also plays with several local bands. He told KATU News someone broke into his locked pickup truck earlier this month and took his only 2 fiddles from behind the front seat.
“I’ve had one of them for probably almost fifteen years and the other one for
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Natalie MacMaster: Dynamic fiddle virtuoso
Few performers exhibit the excitement that marks Natalie MacMaster's shows. Less than a year after the birth of her fourth child, the Canadian fiddler brings "Christmas in Cape Breton" to George Mason University Center for the Arts, full of traditional Celtic music.
"I'm motivated by love and music that moves," she said. "I can be tired and the minute I get on stage I'm filled with energy.
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Natalie MacMaster is fiddlin’ around the country
Cover of Natalie MacMasterLast week, renowned fiddler Natalie MacMaster boarded a bus with a brood of children in tow, headed to her next performance in Pittsfield, Mass.
Tonight, she brings her high-energy, driving music to the College of St. Benedict Benedicta Arts Center, where she’ll perform a mixture of Cape Breton stylings as well as traditional Christmas carols.
“I want (people) to come
