Jimmy Keane brings his accordion to Fiddle Club
Sunday, January 27, 2013, 6:30pm
Seman Violins (4447 Oakton, Skokie)
B.Y.O.B. Snacks will be provided.
All fiddlers and friends of fiddlers, including players of other instruments, are welcome. $15 admission. Click here to register.
Here’s a tune I recorded Jimmy playing on stage at the Indiana Fiddler’s Gathering in 1980 when he was a mere lad of 22.
Frieze Britches aka The Friar’s Breeches, aka Cunnla
And a half dozen years later he played with the also youthful and equally accomplished Liz Carroll in a concert for the Adler Cultural Center in Libertyville, Illinois.
unnamed reel-Limerick Lasses
From that same 1986 concert comes this solo performance of two Cuz Teahan tunes: The Road to Glentowne and The School of Glentowne . . .
Jimmy, of course, has had a long and outstanding career performing and composing wonderful tunes in the Irish tradition. You can find more samples on his own website (click here).
Paul Tyler, convener
Filed under: Meeting Schedule,Preview Tunes,Tunes by Paul | January 21, 2013 | Comments (0)
Vesta Johnson featured guest for October
The Fiddle Club of the World will try out a new meeting space on Sunday, October 24 at 6:30 pm when we gather in the back room of the Atlantic Bar & Grill, 5062 N. Lincoln Avenue. There’s a wooden floor and ample space to run a few squares in a square dance. What a great coincidence that our featured guest for October is Vesta Johnson, who in her 80 plus years has played for hundreds of dances in her home state of Missouri.
Vesta played her first dance at age 9 in Linn County, Missouri. She moved to the St. Louis area to raise her family, and in the 1960s, after her kids were grown, she started playing again for contests, dances and fiddle socials. A lot of younger players give credit to Vesta’s patient support and tutelage. One of those younger players, her grandson Steve Hall, will accompany her in Chicago.
Vesta appeared on two seminal anthologies of Missiouri fiddle music, I’m Old But I’m Awfully Tough (from the early 1970s) and Now That’s a Good Tune (from 1989). In the ’90s, she recorded two albums for the Marimac label of Crown Point, Indiana, Down Home Rag and Blue Flame. At a recent appearance at the University of Chicago Folk Festival, she was able to hawk to CDs produced by her grandson, Steve Hall.
Here are some samples of her playing over the years . . .
She Oughta Been a Lady
Click here to register. Dues for this meeting are $15.
Beginning January 1, it will be possible to pay yearly dues and be able to enjoy all Fiddle Club of the World events at a significantly reduced rate. Also, enrolling in a “Fiddleship” allows you to support regular presentations of traditional fiddle music.
Upcoming Fiddle Club of the World meetings:
Nov. 21 – Kenny Stone is the featured guest (meeting to start at 5:30)
Dec. 12 – jam session
Jan. 16 – featured guest to be announced soon
Feb. 20 – featured guest to be announced soon
Paul Tyler, convener
Chicago Chapter
Filed under: Meeting Schedule,Preview Tunes by Paul | September 22, 2010 | Comments (4)
Jim & Kim Lansford tonight
Jim & Kim Lansford
JIM & KIM LANSFORD from Galena, Missouri
Friday, July 16, 8 pm
Leadway Bar & Gallery (5233 N. Damen)
Show up tonight and register at the door. Dues are $15 for this meeting.
The registration link at oldtownschool.org is no longer working.
And here’s Jim & Kim with a medley of tunes from the nineteenth century. These are great!
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Jim & Kim Lansford – July 16
 Jim & Kim Lansford |
JIM & KIM LANSFORD from Galena, Missouri Friday, July 16, 8 pm Leadway Bar & Gallery (5233 N. Damen) This is strong music. Not only because of the considerable talents of this duo, but because their tunes and songs are deeply rooted in rural American life and tradition. Great fiddling and heartful singing. Don’t miss this. |
Hear here . . .
Pretty Polly Ann
Filed under: Meeting Schedule,Preview Tunes by Paul | May 15, 2010 | Comments (0)
Fiddlepalooza – Tueday, June 8
Tuesday, June 8, 8pm at the Old Town School
Two bands from two traditions of old-time music – Finnish and American – the evening will be part workshop, part visit, and part jam session. Members of Steve Rosen’s Fiddle 3 and Paul Tyler’s Fiddle 4 will attend Fiddlepalooza in lieu of their regular class. All fiddlers, banjoists, mandolinists, guitarists, accordionists and friends of old-time music are welcome. Check back with this blog for some tunes to learn for the jam session.
Click here to register for Fiddlepalooza.
 Teija Niku & Kukka Lehto |
POLKA CHICKS from Helsinki, Suomi (Finland) or The Polka Chicks American tour features the duo of Kukka Lehto (fiddle & mandolin) and Teija Niku (accordions). or |
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Polka Chicks, hear here . . . or Niittykosket Masurkat |
Hear Paul Brown at the U of Chicago folk festival, 2008 Battle of the Horseshoe Lady of the Lake |
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MOSTLY MOUNTAIN BOYS from Washington, DC (USA) or Paul Brown (you hear him on NPR newscasts) plays fiddle; Terri McMurray is on banjo; and John Schwab is the guitarist. or |
 Paul Brown – Terri McMurray – John Schwab |
Click one of the following links to listen to and learn some tunes from the Polka Chicks and from the Mostly Mountain Boys.
The Polka Chicks and the Mostly Mountain Boys will share the bill on June 9 at the Old Town School’s World Music Wednesdays. Click here for more info or to reserve tickets.
Filed under: Meeting Schedule,Preview Tunes by Paul | May 15, 2010 | Comments (0)
Traditional Fiddling from Austria
A free meeting – Sunday, June 6
time and location to be announced
Rudi Pietsch of the band Die Tanzgeiger (the Dance Fiddlers) from Vienna
Rudi Pietsch (on left)
Rudi, a fiddler and ethnomusicologist, is currently a visiting professor at the University of Chicago. The Old Town School has assisted his endeavors in Chicago, and in return, he wants to introduce us to a rich tradition of fiddling we know little about. Here are some samples from <a href="“>Die Tanzgeiger.
Filed under: Meeting Schedule,Preview Tunes by Paul | May 15, 2010 | Comments (0)
Fiddle Club summer happenings – 2010
This is going to be a summer full of great tunes. Keep your bow rosined. Get those banjos in tune. Listen for the chord changes . . .
TRADITIONAL FIDDLING FROM AUSTRIA
Sunday, June 6, location & time tba
Presentation by Rudi Pietsch, a visiting professor at the U of Chicago. Back in Vienna, Rudi leads Die Tanzgeiger (the Dance Fiddlers).
Die Tanzgeiger, Rudi Pietsch is on the far left
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F I D D L E P A L O O Z A
Tuesday, June 8, 8pm at the Old Town School
A workshop/jam session with bands from two traditions of old-time music – Finnish and American – the Polka Chicks from Helsinki & the Mostly Mountain Boys from Washington DC
The Polka Chicks
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Click here to register for Fiddlepalooza.
The Fiddle Club of the World (Chicago Chapter) presents
8th MIDWESTERN FIDDLE CHAMPIONSHIP
Thursday, July 8, 7pm in Giddings Plaza in Lincoln Square
Open Division
Saturday, July 10, 12:55pm at Chicago Folk & Roots Festival
Band Division
7th Midwest Fiddle Championship
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Click here for more information. NB: important update coming soon.
JIM & KIM LANSFORD
Friday, July 16, location & time tba
Jim & Kim Lansford
[Registration information under construction]
FELIPE VALLE from Mexico City
A Fiddle Club guest in the summer of 2008, Felipe is returning to Chicago this summer.
I’ll set up a workshop with him so we can learn a more Son Huasteca.
Felipe Valle
-Paul Tyler, convener
Fiddle Club of the World (Chicago Chapter)
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Preview of Fiddle Club’s Upcoming Season(s)
Announcing meetings scheduled for Fall 2009
Three are set in cement. The fourth requires some more phone calls.
An announcement will be made here soon of how you can register for these meetings, with a provision to subscribe to all four at a bargain price.
Tunes for learning will be posted here in the coming weeks.
We have . . .
Arto Järvelä from Kaustinen, Finland
Friday, September 25
Pete Sutherland from Montpelier, Vermont
with Jeremiah McLane (piano & accordion)
and Mark Roberts (banjo & flute)
Friday, October 16
Icy Mountain-Blind Steer in a Mud Hole
Ruth Ball and Tom Cronin from Newcastle, England
Sunday, October 25
I’m now thinking bluegrass for late November or early December
Coming in 2010
Irish, possibly in January
Genevieve Harrison (old-time) in perhaps February
Dennis Stroughmatt (Illinois-Louisiana French tunes)
Sunday, March 28
Watch this website for announcement of time and place for each meeting.
Paul Tyler, convener
Fiddle Club of the World (Chicago Chapter)
Filed under: Meeting Schedule,Preview Tunes,Tunes by Paul | August 15, 2009 | Comments (0)
Dan Gellert opens a new Fiddle Club season
It’s a go. Fiddlers of all stripes, banjoists and all old-time music lovers should not miss this opportunity to sit up close to listen to Dan and play a few tunes. Some tunes for the jam session will be posted later this week.
March 28 (Sat) 8:00
Dan Gellert
Old-Time doesn’t get any better than this!
Leadway Bar and Gallery (5233 N. Damen)
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Sugar in the Gourd
From “Roustabout,” an LP documenting the 1976 Indiana Fiddlers Gathering (aka Battle Ground)
Black-Eyed Susie
From the 2006 Midwest Banjo Camp, with bones by Clif Ervin!
Follow this link to Dan’s website for more audio samples from his incredible new CD, “Waitin’ on the Break of Day.” You can buy it there, too.
To register, go here. Or you can browse through all the workshop listings at oldtownschool.org.
Filed under: Meeting Schedule,Preview Tunes,Tunes by Paul | March 17, 2009 | Comments (0)
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