Below is a tune to learn for their Chicago concert and jam session:
Thursday, February 26, 8:30pm
Leadway Bar & Grill
(5233 N. Damen in Chicago)
Admission is $15
Christmas Eve slow, a tune from Jim Bowles of Tompkinsville, Kentucky
Besides being multi-instrumentalists, they are also wondrous singers of old-time and early country. Check out this promo video from the YouTubes. Lots of great stuff.
Bob Bovee & Pop Wagner
Sunday, November 30 – 7pm
Seman Violins (4447 W. Oakton, Skokie).
Admission is $15 at the door.
Okay, so this picture was taken 40 years ago. Their hair has turned gray, but they still play real good, with the same drive and passion for the old-time music they’ve shown to audiences all over the country. Few can do it any better. (Pop still has that fabulous mustache and Bob is sure to wear a great hat.) What’s in store for us is wealth of cowboy songs, old-time tunes, and more. Here’s some samples of Pop’s fiddling, tune we might play at the jam session.
Silver Creek Hasty by Anni Spring & Pop Wagner
Parted Lovers by Pop Wagner
Lamentation for William Hinkley by Adam Granger & Pop Wagner
Hobb Dye by Pop Wagner
Ebenezer by Anni Spring & Pop Wagner
Brazilian Tune (recording of a cool tune, sent by Pop)
For Pete Sutherland’s return to Fiddle Club of the World
Seman Violins (4447 W. Oakton, Skokie).
Sunday, September 28
Admission is $15 at the door.
The meeting begins at 7pm with a short concert followed by a jam/workshop.
Pete Sutherland Oliver Scanlon Tristan Henderson
A couple of tunes, originals by Oliver Scanlon, that we will all play together at the jam.
Folkestra from England
Sunday, April 13, 7 pm
Seman Violins (4447 Oakton, Skokie)
This event is free.
Here are some tunes we can play together. (Click the arrow to listen, right-click the tune title to download.)
Rusty Gulley, an old-style hornpipe in 3/2
NB: In the Geordie dialect, a gulley is a long sharp knife.
Squirrel in the Tree, a jig in G
Here are the ABCs. Copy and paste a whole block into this online converter and turn it into music to read or play.
X:1
T:Rusty Gulley
M:3/2
N:cf Punchanello’s Hornpipe / Three Rusty Swords,
N:from John of the Greeny Cheshire Way
O:England
R:Triple Hornpipe
K:G
GABc d2 G2 B2 G2 | F2 A4 c2 B2 A2 | GABc d2 G2 B2 G2 | D2 G4 B2 A2 G2 ::
g4 f4 ef g2 | f2 d4 f2 e2 d2 | c4 B4 AB c2 | B2 G4 B2 A2 G2 :|
X: 2
T: Squirrel in a Tree
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
K: G
d edc | BBB BBB | B2A GAB | ccc ccc | c2d efg |
fff fff | fed cBA |1 GBd e2d | B2 :|2 GB/c/d b2a | g2 |:
B dga |bbb bbb | b2 a gfe | ddd ddd | d2c Bdg |
fff fff | fed cBA | GBd e2d |1 B2- :|2 G2 |
Don Stiernberg
Sunday, January 26, 7pm
Seman Violins (4447 Oakton, Skokie)
$15 at the door. Fiddle Club is not just for fiddlers. All players and music lovers are welcome.
A little lesson in swing. Another session tune on this earlier post.
Right or Wrong slow
Right or Wrong lesson
Right or Wrong improvised
Sunny Side of the Street slow
Sunny Side of the Street lesson
Sunny Side of the Street improvised
Don’t forget!
Lotus Dickey CD Release Celebration
Sunday, December 1, 7pm
Seman Violins (4447 Oakton, Skokie)
$15 at the door for a concert, followed by a session of tunes
 Lotus Dickey jigging, circa 1986 |
 Lotus Dickey at Sugar Hill, circa 1986 |
Complete and corrected notation for all the tunes.
Music notation is here.
ABC notation is here.
And some more tunes recorded in 1986.
Paddy on the Handcar, Second tune in a medley from the album “Pride of Glencoe”
Lotus Dickey CD Release Celebration
Sunday, December 1, 7pm
Seman Violins (4447 Oakton, Skokie)
$15 at the door for a concert, followed by a session of tunes
Music at the celebration provided by Dickey’s Disciples.
 1984 Disciples – aka Sugar Hill Serenaders in front of Lotus’s cabin on Grease Gravy Hill |
 1989 Disciples – aka & Friends at the Fermilab Barn Dance (click for full photo) |
Here are some tunes recorded in 1989 for the album that has recently been reissued on Vigortone Records. The CD will be on sale at the Fiddle Club of the World meeting (more info here).
The following recordings are from 1986. The quality is not as good as the recordings on the CD. But Lotus was playing a bit stronger at the time. The first two tunes, but not the waltz, can be heard on the CD.
Albert Dougherty D Waltz #2 (guitar; in A dorian, aka 1 sharp)
Complete and corrected notation is here.
Complete and corrected ABC notation is here.
(Click your pick.)
Dickey’s Disciples (aka the Volo Bogtrotters)
circa 2009 at Breaking Up Thanksgiving
Paul Tyler -convener
Fiddle Club of the World, Chicago Chapter
Stuart Rosenberg
Sunday, Oct. 13, 7pm
Seman Violins (4447 Oakton, Skokie)
$15 at the door for a concert, followed by a session of tunes
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From his days with the Laketown Buskers in the ’80s, through his years behind the mic of Radio Gumbo in the ’90s, to his current weekly appearances leading the Bagels and Bluegrass jam at Kaufman’s deli, Stuart Rosenberg has been a fixture on the Chicago folk scene. Stuart’s talents range from blues and swing to bluegrass and Klezmer. You can hear a sample at his MySpace page. Make sure you work on the two tunes posted below, and come to Fiddle Club next weekend when Stuart will hold forth with great stories and inspired tunes. As always, we’ll form the chairs into a circle and play some tunes together.
Fiselekh Fiselekh, a Klezmer (aka Jewish) dance tune
Golden Slippers Stuart learned this distinctive version of an American standard from working with Gatemouth Brown.
It’s a Nordic palooza of fun tunes. Vidar Skrede, this month’s featured guest at Fiddle Club of the World sent recordings of three tunes that we can play at the session after his concert this Sunday (9/29) at Seman Violins (4447 Oakton in Skokie).
Here they are, straight and simple, with the slow versions offered up by themselves:
Kari Trestakk (fiddle version of Reinlender-see previous post)
For the first batch of tunes from Vidar, click here!
Music notation for most of the tunes is here.
ABC notation is here.
(Click your pick.)
Vidar Skrede
Sunday, Sept. 29, 7pm
Seman Violins (4447 Oakton, Skokie)
$15 at the door for a concert, followed by a session of tunes
 (click for another image) |
 Vidar Skrede |
I know this one will be great. I met Vidar Skrede during my visit to Helsinki last fall. He’s a powerhouse of a musician from Haugesand, Norway, now living in Finland. His background is the traditional music from Rogaland (South West of Norway), but he also has a masters degree in Nordic folk music from the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm. He is best known from his work with such bands as the Dynamo Band, Geitungen and The Secret Carpet Club. This summer he has toured the Midwest in The Blue and the Blonde, a duo with Jutta Rahmel (from Kardemimmit, a quartet featured at the Chicago World Music Fest).
Vidar is a master of both the hardingfele and the flatfele. The first is the eight-string hardanger fiddle that features four (sometimes five) sympathetic that run under the fingerboard. The second is the flat or regular fiddle. His mastery extends to the guitar and mandolin.
But let the tunes speak for themselves. (More can be found on Vidar’s MySpace.)
Bullaremarschen
Halling frå Lysekil
Reinlender (on guitar; see below for a live version in another key)
Here are a couple of tunes from an incredible session at the Musta Kissa (Black Cat) bar in Helsinki last October. The session was organized by accordionist Tejia Niku, who was a Fiddle Club guest in 2010 with the Polka Chicks. Antti Järvelä (Arto’s cousin) was there with a mandolin. (Antti, any time you want to visit Fiddle Club, just let me know.) Gail Tyler played some banjo uke. I was doing my best to keep up on fiddle as Vidar led the way on guitar.
Johan på Loftet aka John in the Hayloft
Griffenfeld (perhaps named after Peder Griffenfeld)
Reinlender (guitar; in A dorian, aka 1 sharp)
For more great tunes from Vidar, click here!
Music notation for most of the tunes is here.
ABC notation is here.
(Click your pick.)
Fiddlers, guitarists, folk music lovers &c. Don’t miss this one.
Paul Tyler -convener
Fiddle Club of the World, Chicago Chapter
