Fiddle Club in the Media

We had a wonderful reporter and photographer from the Gazette come out for the Fiddle Club dance this past weekend, and their article, along with pictures and video, is up on their website. Show them some love and check it out!

Appeal for Content

Fiddle Club members,

I'll be in the process of developing more content for our website through April and May, and I'm looking for your ideas: links, photos, videos, memoirs, and so on. What would you like to see up on our site?

March Events & an early April

We've had a busy several weeks - the March meeting came a week late, followed by a fantastic Fiddle Club dance (more lightly attended than last year, but brilliant fun nonetheless).

And the very next weekend, this coming Sunday, is the April meeting, a week early, followed by a rescheduled Royal Mile jam a week later.

There are also a lot of events in town for National Tartan Day (April 6). It's with more than a little pride that I mention that The Devil's Tailors will be playing the National Tartan Day Festival at Market Square in Old Town Alexandria this coming Saturday, April 2nd!

There's also a National Tartan Day concert on April 8 at the Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts in Annapolis featuring the Blue Ridge Brass and Montreat Scottish Pipes and Drums with Scottish Balladeer Ed Miller (with piper EJ Jones!).

Know of any other events? Let me know!

March Fiddle Club Jam

We had a lot of fun after this month's fiddle club meeting at my house jamming to some tunes. Here's what we played:

Corriechollie's Welcome to the Northern Meeting/Terribus/Greenwoodside
Bonnie at Morn
Sitting in the Stern of a Boat
Hamish Henderson's Refusal/Tam Lin/The Tongadale Reel/The Knockadhu Reel
The Piper's Weird
The Sweetness of Mary/Miss Drummond of Perth/Put Me in a Box
Petronella
The Squirrel in a Tree/The Directors
Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch
Far From Hame
St. Anne's/Soldier's Joy
Flowers of Edinburgh/Staten Island
Da Full Rigged Ship/Da New Rigged Ship
Bonnie George Campbell/Hector the Hero
Minnie MacMaster

A Celtic Concert with Maggie Sansone & Friends

A Celtic Concert with Maggie Sansone, Robin Bullock, Shannon Dunne, Matt Bell, Regan Riley
"In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Saint Mark Presbyterian Church"

Date: Saturday, March 12, 2011
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: St. Mark Presbyterian Chuch, Rockville, Maryland.
Join award winning Celtic and folk musicians and dancers for a great family show.Featuring America's premier Celtic hammered dulcimer recording artist Maggie Sansone, "flat picking master" Robin Bullock, guitar, cittern, mandolin; Matt Bell, Irish Bodhran and who is a snare drum percussionist with US Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps ; Shannon Dunne, concertina, vocals and Irish Step Dancer who tours with Percussive Foot Works Ensemble and also Regan Riley, a champion Irish Step dancer, former member of the Teelin School of Irish Dance. . http://www.saintmarkpresby.org. Tickets and info: events@saintmarkpresby.org ; 301-530-2613; Saint Mark Presbyterian Church, 10701 Old Georgetown Road, Rockville, MD 20852
Tickets and info:
St. Mark Presbyterian Church
10701 Old Georgetown Road
Rockville, MD 20852
301-530-2613
http://www.saintmarkpresby.org.
events@saintmarkpresby.org

Directions:
http://www.saintmarkpresby.org/pagedirections.htm

Maggie Sansone:
http://www.maggiesmusic.com/mscalen.html

February Fiddle Club jam tunes

Chandler Becker sends the list of tunes played at the jam:

Spootiskerry, Sailor's Wife, Cushion Dance
My Wife's a Wanton Wee Thing
Primrose Lassies
Tongadale Reel, Knockadhu Reel, Tam Lin
Duke of Fife's Welcome to Deeside, Alex Dan MacIsaac's
Lime Hill, Highland Whisky, Jack Daniel's
Brenda Stubbart
Calliope House, Andy DeJarlis, The New Fiddle
The Wedding Jig
Barrowburn Reel, High Road to Linton
Laxo Burn
Muckin Out Geordie's Byre, Stool of Repentance, Stan Chapman Jig
Mom's Jig
Bonny at Morn
East Neuk of Fife
Crossing the Minch
Johnny Cope
Flowers of Edinburgh
Hughie Shorty
My Cape Breton Home

Ryan McKasson Workshop on March 5th

Liz Donaldson will host Ryam McKasson for a workshop at her home in Bethesda on March 5th, open to all, but with a discount for fiddle club members. Space is limited, so RSVP.

Ryan writes:

Scottish Fiddler's Guide to the Galaxy: how make magic happen with the bow and spawn a fauna of ornamentation on the fingerboard - and feel good doing it. Ryan will teach tunes from the Scottish tradition (Strathspeys, Reels, Jigs, Slow Airs), focusing on bowings and ornamentation. Ryan likes to teach music, not just tunes! Any instruments are welcome, but some of the lesson will be spent on fiddle specific bowings. Ryan teaches all tunes aurally, so sheet music will be available after the workshop, not during. The workshop will be taught at an intermediate to advanced skill level.

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