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Fiddle jams and sessions for novice and advanced fiddlers! Sponsored by the Quiet Corner Fiddlers, Willimantic, CT, USA For more information call Chuck at 860-423-5403 or email chuckmrgn@att.net | ||
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The Quiet Corner Fiddlers have been getting together weekly since June 2005 and we have 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. Our Tunelist is found below on this web page... At a typical session we play tunes from the playlist below for about an hour and a quarter, members of the group in turn picking which tune to play. Each tune is played 4 or 5 times, at first slowly then faster. This is followed by about a quarter hour of working on new tunes selected by members. Skill levels range from novice to retired Champions, but we all love playing fiddle and we invite all fiddlers to visit us.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recent Tunes: Mon Compaire (Compère?) (audio of tune from Claudine Arcane) (transcription below) Many of the QCF fiddlers are also interested in the Old Fiddlers Club of Rhode Island -here are some of the OFCRI practice tunes: Opening Medley is a brief practice audio that Chuck whipped off. It has slow 'basic barebones' of the five tunes that make up the opening medley played by the Old Fiddlers Club of RI Also, here is are audio files: OFCRI first part of French-Canadian Medley and second part of French Canadian Medley and some written music from OFCRI. And a barebones basic audio file of Judique Jig (key of D version) from Chuck. (more transcripts of music at the bottom of this page) |
Find us on Tuesdays - 7pm - 8:30pm! The Quiet Corner Fiddlers, an informal group of from ten to twenty fiddlers, generally holds 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 - Freds Brick House Cafi, 3rd Tues - E-mail photopunky@aol.com to inquire 4th Tues - Chucks place (e-mail chuckmrgn@att.net to confirm) 5th Tue - Chucks place (e-mail chuckmrgn@att.net to confirm) 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, so we have been discussing what other tune books might be a good choice...
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Chuck leads a recent gig at Akus Galleries, Eastern Connecticut State University, Feb 2009, Annual RR Museum Concert - June 2009 | ||
