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------------------------------------------ Round Robin of Favorite You-Tube Fiddling Videos So far, from Amanda, Chuck, Blair and Matt... send in your favorite... "Ashokan Farewell" definitive version by composer Jay Ungar "Big Scioty" one of the 'Tranatlantic Sessions' series, Jay Ungar with Ali Bain 'Bonaparte's Retreat' Aly Bain with cajun great Michael Doucet Alison Kraus, Mark O'Connor, Ed Meyer and YoYo Ma play a restrained version of Fisher's Hornpipe in F, D and G, proving that speed isn't everything! "Schindler's List" theme - Itzhak Perlman with John WIlliams "St Anne's Reel" Jay Ungar, Aly Bain, another "Transatlantic Sessions" video "Tiffany Kid (tribute to Vassar Clemens) " by Psychograss, Darol Anger, "Wild Rose of the Mountain" Aly Bain and J.P. Fraley "Ways of the World Medley" Andy Reiner and Fiddlefoxx "Working on a Building" Tim O'Brien, one of the String Nation series
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The Quiet Corner Fiddlers have been getting together weekly since June 2005 and we've grown from 4 or 5 fiddles at each session to as many as 20 or more! We have practice sessions, workshops taught by visiting fiddlers, and some public performance dates. We generally hold weekly fiddle sessions on Tuesdays from 7:00 to 8:30 in the Willimantic CT area. The purpose of the sessions is to have fun playing fiddle tunes together and to improve our fiddling skills. The following is our usual schedule: 1st Tues - E-mail photopunky@aol.com to inquire; 2nd Tues - Fred's Brick House Cafe, 1691 West Main St., Willimantic (call first); 3rd Tues - Email photopunky@aol.com to inquire; 4th Tues - Chuck's place (email chuckmrgn@att.net to confirm). We often play at other times and locations, so check with us to see what's happening.
--------------------------------- Here's a link to our SLOW JAM page with tunes to practice. The current TUNE LIST is at the bottom of this page.. Many QCF fiddlers also play with Old Fiddlers Club of Rhode Island Our latest Workshop, Dan Boucher November 2009 Here's a link to more photos Some folks play from written music and some play by ear. We often choose new tunes to learn from the David Brody Fiddler's Fakebook which nearly all of us own and use. Sometimes we have copies of this book available for new members to buy. Some people find this large book awkward to handle and a bit too large to carry around, so we have been discussing what other tune books might be a good choice... Two other tune books than many fiddlers like are Randy Miller's "New England Fiddler's Repertory" which has many traditional tunes, and Susan Songer's "Portland Collection" which has both traditional and recently composed tunes.
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