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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 generally hold weekly fiddle sessions on Tuesdays from 7:00 to 8:30 in the
Willimantic CT area, but we also have practice sessions, workshops taught by visiting fiddlers, and some public
performance dates. The purpose of all the sessions is to have fun playing fiddle tunes together and to improve our fiddling skills.

This is our usual monthly schedule:

1^st Tues - E-mail photopunky@aol.com to inquire;

2^nd Tues - Fred's Brick House Cafe, 1691 West Main St., Willimantic (call first);

3rd Tues - Email photopunky@aol.com to inquire;

4^th 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.

A Quiet Corner Fiddlers list of tunes we play: QCF PLAYLIST rev April 2011

A PDF document version of the Playlist set up for easy printing. QCFplaylist printable

Audio files of some tunes we play at QCF jams Slow Jam page

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Many QCF fiddlers also play with the Old Fiddlers Club of Rhode Island

Here are some links to tunes played by the OFCRI

A PDF file of a tunebook with sheet music for 24 OFCRI tunes

A link to page with audio files of 24 OFCRI tunes (6/2010)

A link to OFCRI Volume 2 a page with 36 OFCRI Tunes (4/2011)

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Rachel Panitch, an award winning Bluegrass fiddler and violin teacher from Providence, RI recently gave a fun workshop for QCF. For
pictures of many of our QCF events, follow this link to more photos

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Round Robin of Favorite You-Tube Fiddling Videos
Send in a favorite so we can post it...
"Avalance" twists and turns from the master blues and jazz inspired fiddler, Vassar Clements
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZoDbo-OMqI

"the Blackest Crow" fiddlers Bruce Molsky, Julie Fowlis, Aly Bain and friends -one of a long series of fabulous vids from Aly's 1985 "TransAtlantic" sessions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zya2w07obJ4&feature=related
Old Timey Fiddler John Bekoff and friends zone out at Black Creek Fiddle Reunion, a weekend campout held yearly in Massachusetts - one of the underground legends of old time music filmed by Boston fiddler Alan Kaufman... I think this tune is a version of 'Sally Johnson'...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pL0atmTIt8
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!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBXrjMOKnBw
"Jenny on the Railroad" Alan Kaufman, leader of the weekly fiddle jam at the Skellig Pub in Waltham, MA and Leo Grassi play twin fiddles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aee1D9OVhcU
"Jerusalem Ridge" classic Bill Monroe tune played by fiddler Kenny Baker and Bill - fiddling doesn't get much sweeter than this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpzoLAwZ-gs&feature=related
Pre-1939 audio only files - Les joyeuses Quebecois ("Joys of Quebec") from the 1938 RCA Victor recordings by the great French Canadian fiddler Joseph Bouchard. In the Archives of Canada website ("Virtual Gramophone") this tune is listed as composed by F. Malouin. This is a nice three part version with very sweet fiddling and fun variations. The flip side of the record was Galop de la Malbaie, known in English as Mackilmoyle's Reel. And just for good measure, here's the legendary Joseph Allard playing a 1930s version of St Anne's Reel
"Sally Gooden" great western style fiddling from a master, Junior Daugherty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT-PSV8-X18
"Schindler's List" theme - Maestro Itzhak Perlman with composer John Williams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueWVV_GnRIA
"Temperance Reel, Lord McDonald's, High Road to Linton" fiddlers Aly Bain, Julie Fowlis and friends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v-4IKkZsp0
"Tiffany Kid (tribute to Vassar Clemens) " by Psychograss, fiddler Darol Anger,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kez4lU4z5Ng&feature=related
"Wild Rose of the Mountain" fiddlers Aly Bain and J.P. Fraley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mo63u5b3z4
"Ways of the World Medley" fiddler Andy Reiner and Fiddlefoxx
http://www.youtube.com/user/FiddleFoxx#p/a/f/0/rNPd5mCfdMo
"Working on a Building" fiddler Tim O'Brien, one of the String Nation series - Tim sings the Bill Monroe classic with solo fiddle - brilliant!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApVHPQKrUNU

revised Jan 10, 2011 v4.8