The next fiddle club meeting will be
Michi Regier with Peasants Abroad
Sunday, December 11 at 6:30p
Atlantic Bar & Grill (5062 Lincoln)
Michi Regier started out with classical violin lessons (lessons that were well-earned), but soon went off in search of Gypsy fiddling on paths that took her into the worlds of Mariachi bands and renaissance fairs. Among other gems, Michi will perform her “Fiddle Tree” travelogue in fiddle, English and Ukrainian, highlighting the musical folklore of the Ukraine, which she studied first-hand in 2003 at the Lysenko Conservatory in L’viv. She also plays with the Milwaukee based Water Street Bridge.
Peasants Abroad is the Madison, Wisconsin duo of Ashli Fain on mandolin and percussionist Richard Miller. Both will also demonstrate some dancing to the accompaniment of Michi Regier’s exotic fiddling. A few simple dances will be taught to Fiddle Clubbers, including one of my favorite, the lovely and simple Setnja from Serbia.
 Ukrainian folk costumes |
 Michi Regier with Ivan Andreiovich |
Michi’s tunes, and what she has to say about them . . .
Hutsulky
“I learned it from a Carpathian mountain fiddler (Ivan, in the picture) who refused to let me take notes!”
Arkan-Fire Dance
“I learned this tune from Oksana Moshinsky, bandura player from Ukraine. I met her when performing at the Colorado renaissance festival, and her great cooking is responsible for my weekly visits to her house to learn Ukrainian tunes.” [a cd by Michi & Oksana available here.]
Little Stream
“This one I learned from Oksana Moshinsky – it’s a traditional Ukrainian tune also.
Here’s a fairly traditional sung version. I recorded an instrumental arrangement of it on my first cd Curved Space (It is out of print but I still have download cards which I will bring to the club).”
To register for Michi’s visit to the Fiddle Club, show up at the Atlantic Bar on Sunday with $15 in hand (it all goes to the artist). Or join fiddle club with a year’s subscription for $60.
-Paul Tyler, convener