{"id":838,"date":"2010-08-19T14:49:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T14:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldtownschool.org\/connect\/fiddleclub\/?p=838"},"modified":"2014-04-16T12:39:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T12:39:46","slug":"midwest-fiddle-champs-for-2010-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/2010\/08\/midwest-fiddle-champs-for-2010-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Midwest Fiddle Champs for 2010, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our 8th annual contest was held back in July.  Part 1 of this post highlighted the 4 winning bands in the Open Division contest held on the 8th in Giddings Plaza.  Part 2 will show videos shot on July 10th from the stage as four bands competed in the Invitational Division at the Chicago Folk &amp; Roots Festival.<\/p>\n<p>While the judges consulted on the final order, we had performances by 1st place winner&#8217;s in the Open Division &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cy7daXyIp_Q\">the Rachel Baiman Band<\/a> &#8212; and the Youth Division &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/oldtownschool.org\/connect\/fiddleclub\/2010\/06\/23\/8th-midwest-fiddle-championship\/\"><font color='green'>Maddy &amp; the Hillions<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In reverse order, here are the top 4 prize winners in the Invitational Division.<\/p>\n<p>4th Place &#8211; <strong>Moravska Cimbalovka<\/strong> (Moravian Cymbalom Band), led by Andrew Tokarz<br \/>\n[youtube:http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9Ze2fmGvIcE]<br \/>\nTheir first tune was a traditional Moravian folk song.<\/p>\n<p>3th Place &#8211; <strong>Paulina Hollers<\/strong>, <font color='green'>Elizabeth Lamberti &amp; Jim Becker<\/font> &amp; Kristen Bern, fiddles, &amp;amp with Lea Tschilds on guitar &amp; Clayton Brown on bass.  They brought along the Chicago Prairie Cloggers, led by Rebecca Unger.<br \/>\n[youtube:http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-xZQkrKYaAk]<br \/>\nThey followed up with &#8220;Back-Step Cindy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2nd Place &#8211; <strong>Stil Hua<\/strong>, <font color='green'>Kristen Bern<\/font> on fiddle, with Kevin Carey on flute, Siobhan Wojcik on bouzouki &amp; Andrew Serb on bodhran.  Rory Ward was their dancer.<br \/>\n[youtube:http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jBva4HWz1y8]<br \/>\nTheir second tune was a medley of an air and a reel.<\/p>\n<p>1st Place &#8211; <strong>Cajun Vagabonds<\/strong>, <font color='green'>Dorian Gehring<\/font>-fiddle with Stewart Gehring-guitar, Eli Leki-Albano-bass &amp; Monica Vachon-triangle.  They brought two dancing couples from the Chicago Associate Chapter of the Cajun French Music Association.<br \/>\n[youtube:http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8HZgnmt2JKE]<br \/>\nTheir second tune was &#8220;Lacassine Special&#8221;, a two-step.  The dancers really got it going.<br \/>\n[audio:https:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Lacassine-Special.mp3]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our 8th annual contest was held back in July. Part 1 of this post highlighted the 4 winning bands in the Open Division contest held on the 8th in Giddings Plaza. Part 2 will show videos shot on July 10th &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/2010\/08\/midwest-fiddle-champs-for-2010-part-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiddle-contest","tag-midwest-fiddle-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3373,"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/3373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/fiddleclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}