When I took up the fiddle, I thought it was all blue jeans and seed company caps, but look at Reg Bouvette. Man, that guy had some swell fashion sense! Then there was Graham Townsend in the early 80s. That guy went all-out-Elvis. You know… Read More
Bow to your partner….
I came across this wonderful film by Yasha Aginski the other day. I had seen excerpts from this in the past. It’s all about Cajun fiddling great Dewey Balfa, his family and friends and includes great clips of Rockin’ Dopsie and Nathan Abshire as well.… Read More
A beautiful waltz from one of the best stringbands working today, The Foghorn Stringband.
I love this drawing by SL Jones, which hangs in our dining room. Shields Landon Jones was born in West Virginia in 1901 and passed in 1997, also in WV. “A person has to have some work to do, so I carve some and play… Read More
This features John Specker on fiddle and vocals and Richie Stearns on banjo. I love this groove! Earworm alert.
I stumbled on this little gem on the YouTubes. It’s Quebec fiddle greats Danny Perreault and Germain Leduc sharing a fiddle for a tune.
Dennis & Jennifer Stroughmatt This duo are from a community in Missouri Quebecois French is still spoken. Here they are performing The Boyer Stomp.
The Speckers
Retired guy who thought it would be a fine idea to start getting serious about the fiddle during the pandemic seeks guitar picker who thinks Canadian Old Time as well as American Mid-western fiddle music is the cat’s meow. Object: regular jamming for now, busking… Read More
27th Street 