This is the last part of a Pure Laine fiddle competition in Quebec -- the most intense fiddle contest I've ever seen.

From my friend Chris, who posted this video:

' Contestants take turns playing the A part (16 measures) of a reel of their choice. It has to be in the key indicated by the judge on suggestions from the audience. There can't be a break. And they can't play a tune that has already been played. '

#fiddle #Quebec #PureLaine #FolkMusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKf7eh-eXcE

My attempts to record something this morning went badly awry (including an eventual computer reboot), but here's a lovely new hop jig I'm working on learning, Hannah Harris’s "The Dog Who Chased the Ducks”, played (and explained) by Hannah herself: https://learn.hannahharrisceol.com/hop-jig

#IrishTrad
#HopJig
#Fiddle
#TuneSwapTuesday

Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival (Maine) was amazingly wonderful, especially after the rain on Wednesday. 4 perfect weather days and chilly, glove-wearing nights for picking.
#Bluegrass #oldtimemusic #guitar #fiddle #banjo #clawhammerbanjo #music #mandolin #maine

came up in my fb memories, something I found on Jochre Yiddish OCR search in 2020 when looking for mentions of tsimbls (cimbaloms), the the boasting of a cantor from a satirical short story:

"My neck — a fiddle
my throat — a tsimbl
and I myself am a whole orchestra
When I pray, people fall like flies"

Source: Frehlikhe minuṭen Vol. 2, B.B. Kovner, 1919.
https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/yiddish-books/spb-nybc209702/kovner-b-frehlikhe-minuten-gekliebene-humoristishe-ertsehlungen-vol-2?book-page=171&book-mode=1up
#Yiddish #JewishLiterature #tsimbl #cimbalom #fiddle #cantor #hazzan #ego

on “wake of the flood” (& with old & in the way) vassar clements was playing a remarkable #violin from the 16th century, a recent gift from john hartford. you can just about it make out the headstock in a few shots from that summer. https://www.vassarclements.com/fiddle.html (thanks @mrcompletely!)
his isolated “mississippi half-step” #fiddle just melts me, dig parts of it on the new deadcast: https://www.dead.net/deadcast/wake-flood-50-mississippi-half-step-uptown-toodeloo

Michael Daves and Jacob Joliff sing Louvin Brothers’ “I Wish You Knew” at Green Mountain Bluegrass and Roots Festival. August 18, 2023 on the Lamplighter stage which starts at 11 pm down a wooded path to a field and stage. Foghorn Stringband played after them around midnight. Awesome sets.
#Bluegrass #oldtimemusic #guitar #fiddle #banjo #gmbr #music #mandolin #vermont
Link to YouTube https://youtu.be/bl0M0XSnuUY

I think I'll just stop #using #JSFiddle now

All my work is *suddenly* #untitled ?

Noi explanation on /how/ to switch #fiddle privacy ?

I'll program my own jsfiddle now.

F.U. whoever #oskar is.
#Stackoverflow can be silent now too.

#IhateBeingDependantOnBS

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Our new album is out now on all the streaming services but bandcamp is best. Enjoy and share the good times! Happy Friday.
#BandcampFriday #bluegrass #oldtimemusic #guitar #fiddle #banjo #clawhammerbanjo #music #mandolin
https://splintersbluegrass.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-pale-moonlight

Can you get to Cecil Sharp House on Sundays? Thinking of learning something new or improving existing skills at our Sunday Folk Music Workshops this autumn? Book soon to be sure of your place – fully allocated already for #Fiddle level 3 and #Guitar level 3-4. #Melodeon #CeilidhBand #Banjo #Song https://www.efdss.org/whats-on/28-classes-and-courses/12607-sunday-folk-music-workshops-autumn23

Fiddlers born in the 1880s, Pt. 12:

Bert Layne: (1889-12-14 to 1982-10-22); Georgia. (Commercially with the Skillet Lickers, Georgia Serenaders and Bert Layne's Melody Boys.)

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Fiddlers born in the 1880s, Pt. 11:

Clayton A. Perry: (1889-04-30 to 1959-10-30); Ohio / Michigan. (Commercial recordings under own name and with Henry Ford’s Old-Fashioned Dance Orchestra.)

Uncle Bob Walters: (1889-06-16 to 1960-12-26); Nebraska. (Recorded infomally with R. P. Christeson and Dwight Lamb, possibly in the 1940s.)

Charlie Bowman: (1889-07-30 to 1962-05-20); Tennessee/Virginia/ North Carolina. (Commercially with Al Hopkins's bands.)

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Fiddlers born in the 1880s, Pt. 9:

Frank Jenkins: (1888-08-27 to 1945-04-09); North Carolina. (Commercially with DaCosta Woltz's Southern Broadcasters, Frank Jenkins' Pilot Mountaineers and solo.)

Luther Davis: (1888-09-11 to 1986-09-16); North Carolina. (Recorded with the Crockett Ward family by Alan Lomax in 1941.)

Charlie LaPrade: (1888-11-17 to 1958-04-24); Virginia. (Commercially with the Blue Ridge Highballers and Luther B. Clarke.)

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Fiddlers born in the 1880s, Pt. 7:

Ed Haley: (1885-08-16 to 1951-02-03); West Virginia / Ohio River. (1946 home recordings with family and friends.)

Gene Clardy: (1886-05-11 to 1934-07-07); Mississippi. (Commercially with Stan Clements.)

K. C. Kartchner: (1886-10-15 to 1970-05-26); Arizona / New Mexico. (Recorded informally by ? In 1940.)

Lonnie Chatmon: (1887-??-?? to After 1940); Mississippi. (Commercially with the Mississippi Sheiks.)

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Fiddlers born in the 1880s, Pt. 6:

Fiddlin' Tom Freeman: (1884-02-02 to 1952-02-16); Alabama. (Recorded informally by Bremen Tussle in 1949, any other dates unknown.)

William "Wm. B." Houchens: (1884-06-02 to 1949-05-03); Ohio. (Commercial recordings under own name.)

Gid Tanner: (1885-06-06 to 1960-05-13); Georgia. (Commercially with Riley Puckett, the Skillet Lickers and the Georgia Organ Grinders.)

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Fiddlers born in the 1880s, Pt. 5:

Melgie Ward: (1882-05-06 to 1949-03-09); Georgia. (Commercially with the South Georgia Highballers.)

Sarah Armstrong: (1883-03-18 to 1957-08-12); Pennsylvania. (Recorded[?] informally by Samuel Bayard in 1943.)

Joe Lee: (1883-09-19 to 1964-04-15); Georgia / Alabama. (Recorded informally by Paul Ray in 1940.)

Dick Burnett: (1883-10-08 to 1977-01-23); Kentucky. (Commercial fiddle recordings under own name and with Oscar Rutledge.)

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Fiddlers born in the 1880s, Pt. 4:

Bill Driver: (1881-12-08 to 1986-12-06); Missouri . (Recorded informally by R. P. Christeson in the late 1940s.)

John Salyer: (1882-01-20 to 1952-11-20); Kentucky. (Recorded informally by his sons Grover and Glen Salyer in 1941 and 1942.)

George Oscar "Uncle Bud" Landress: (1882-05-02 to 1966-05-14); Georgia. (Commercially with the Georgia Yellowhammers.)

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Fiddlers born in the 1880s, Pt. 3:

Marcus Martin: (1881-08-02 to 1974-03-20); North Carolina. (Recorded informally by [?] in 1939, by Alan Lomax in 1941, by Artus and Jean Moser in 1942 and 1946, and Margaret Mayo in 1946.)

Augustus Ahaz "A. A." Gray: (1881-09-07 to 1939-06-02); Georgia. (Commercially with John Dilleshaw and solo.)

Mazy Todd: (1881-11-03 to 1935-01-11); Tennessee. (Commercially with the McGee Brothers and Uncle Dave Macon.)

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Fiddlers born in the 1880s, Pt. 2:

Bryant Everett "B. E." Scott: (1880-12-22 to 1957-04-14); Illinois. (Commercially recordings under own name.)

John Wills: (1880-12-25 to 1952-12-28); Texas. (Commercially with his son, Bob Wills.)

Burton Stoneman: (1881-02-25 to 1956-09-01); Virginia. (Recorded informally by Elizabeth Lomax -- Alan Lomax's wife -- in 1941.)

Oscar Stone: (1881-04-25 to 1949-06-12); Tennessee. (Commercially with Dr. Humphrey Bates's Possum Hunters.)

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Fiddlers born in the 1870s, Pt. 10:

Elmer Barton: (1879-05-23 to 1959-03-27); Vermont. (Recorded informally by Helen Hartness Flanders and/or Marguerite Olney in 1935, 1939, 1940 and 1945.)

Fiddlers born in the 1880s, Pt. 1:

Dudley Vance: (1880-03-12 to 1962-01-21); Tennessee. (Commercially with the Tennessee Breakdowners.)

Ben Jarrell: (1880-05-14 to 1946-12-09); North Carolina. (Commercially with DaCosta Woltz's Southern Broadcasters.)

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Fiddlers born in the 1870s, Pt. 9:

William Stephen "W. S." Collins: (1878-11-26 to 1965-04-08); Oklahoma. (Home recordings from 1954 exist, anything before that?)

Uncle Bunt Stephens: (1879-02-02 to 1951-05-25); Tennessee. (Commercial recordings under own name.)

Osey Helton: (1879-05-12 to 1942-03-02); North Carolina. (Commercially with Ernest Helton and solo, both commercially and by Jan Schinhan in the 1930s? And Alan Lomax in 1941.)

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