To play for Make Music Chicago on June 21, 2015.

We have two performances and a fiddle tune jam scheduled. And I imagine that just like last year, we’ll have a load of fun and fellowship to go along with all the tunes. We invite you to join us, whatever you play, at whatever skill level you’re at (as long as you can learn a few tunes.)

We’ll be having rehearsals the next 4 Sundays from 5 to about 7 in the back room at Gideon Welles’s (4500 N. Lincoln). At each rehearsal, we’ll teach a couple of tunes that will be new to some folks, and we’ll review others that are more widely known. If you join us for the Make Music Chicago day, you can play along with all the tunes you know, and enjoy listening to the ones you don’t. Not everyone has to play on every tune.

We’ve prepared a working list of 24 tunes from a multitude of countries and cultures. You can view the list online, as a page on this blog. It contains links to recordings of each tune. Some music notation will also be posted here soon. Or if you prefer, you can download a pdf of the tune list with links.

Tunes to be taught this week include: Snouts and Ears of America, El Viento, Edward Öst Brudpolkka, and Polonæse Svøbsk.

Oh, and here’s a flyer for the Fiddle Tune Jam on June 21. Print it and spread it.

Hope to see you at Gideon Welles this Sunday at 5pm.

-Paul Tyler, convener

The Chicago Chapter of the Fiddle Club of the World

will once again perform at Make Music Chicago on Sunday, June 21, 2015

with two performances and an open jam session

• 10-11am at Maggie Daley Park: Cancer Survivor Garden (337 E Randolph)
• noon-1pm at Marina Plaza at Chicago Riverwalk
  (Lower Wacker, between State St & Dearborn St)
• 3-5pm Fiddle Tune Jam at Cafe Brauer Patio
  (Lincoln Park Zoo)

Anyone who has participated in a past Fiddle Club of the World jam session may join us. Come this Sunday (4/19) at 7pm to the Leadway Bar & Grill (5233 N. Damen) and help work up a list of tunes to share with the city on Make Music Chicago day.

Please contact me at fiddleclub@drdosido.net to ask for further information or instructions.

Paul Tyler, convener

Sunday, October 17, 7pm
Fiddle Club jam
at the Leadway (5233 N. Damen)

Sunday, November 2, 7pm
Old-Time Barn Dance
Led by Judy Higgins, Calling by Eric Zorn
at the Atlantic Bar & Grill (5046 N. Lincoln)
With Paul Tyler, Steve Rosen & Chris Walz
A culmination of an apprenticeship, sponsored by
the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and
the National Endowment for the Arts.

Sunday, November 9, 7pm
Maja Kjaer Jacobsen & David Boulanger
Concert and workshop/jam at Seman Violins (4447 W. Oakton in Skokie)
Fiddling from Denmark and Quebec

Friday, November 21, 8:30
White Mule* with calling by Paul Tyler
Big Shoulders Square Dance
in Szold Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music (4545 N. Lincoln)
Led by Fiddle Club guests (2010), Genevieve & Smith Koester

Sunday, November 30, 7pm
Pop Wagner & Bob Bovee
Concert and workshop/jam at Seman Violins (4447 W. Oakton in Skokie)
From Minnesota, old-time tunes and cowboy songs

In their concert, Sunday (10/5) at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Arto & Antti Järvelä sang the song Tappelulaulu, about two murderous men who claimed many victims in a small district in central Finland in the first years of the 20th century. In 1909, they went on a killing spree at a wedding in Härmä. Nine bodies were found on the scene. Reportedly, the killings were result of the two men not being invited to the wedding.

Here is a link to a photo of Isontalon Antti and Rannanjarvi, the two murder men, in shackles.

Murder men in chains

Arto & Antti will conduct a peaceful workshop on Finnish fiddling on Monday, October 6 at Seman Violins in Skokie (4447 W. Oakton). A workshop for kids will begin at 5:30, with a regular Fiddle Club of the World workshop scheduled for 7pm. Admission is $15. Half price admission given to those who have a ticket stub or wrist band from the Sunday night concert.