Old time (also spelled old-time or oldtime) fiddle is the style of American fiddling found in old-time music. Old time fiddle tunes are derived from European...
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on acoustic instruments, generally centering on a combination of fiddle (see old time fiddling) and plucked string instruments, most often the banjo, guitar...
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fiddle (or fiddle music, fiddling) is the old-time fiddle style that the Alaskan Athabaskans of the Interior Alaska have developed to play the fiddle...
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Métis fiddle is the style that the Métis of Canada and Métis in the northern United States have developed to play the violin, solo and in folk ensembles...
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Fiddle Blues" by Vassar Clements and has been covered innumerable times. Although classified as country rock, the tune uses licks based on old-time fiddle...
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and was first recorded in 1924. The song is typically played on banjo or fiddle, and well-known versions of the song include instrumental versions as well...
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The Maritime Fiddle Festival is the longest running old-time fiddle contest in Canada. It is also the largest fiddle contest in the region. Occurring...
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The Canadian Open Old-Time Fiddling Championship is one of the most important fiddle festivals in Canada. Founded in 1951, the contest was held annually...
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widely distributed tunes" and is rated in the top ten most-played old time fiddle tunes.[citation needed] The tune dates as early as the 1760s. In spite...
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Aquiler Thompson (December 9, 1918 – February 20, 2012) was an American old-time fiddle player, and one of the last musicians to carry on the black string...
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as sung in Virginia at that time. "Old Joe Clark" has been described as "one of the most widely known of all Southern fiddle tunes [as of the late 20th...
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A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin or a bass. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including...
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The Grand North American Old Time Fiddle Championship is the longest-running annual fiddle contest in Alberta, held in mid-July. The event started in...
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Tree. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Old Crow Medicine Show. Old time fiddle Old-time music Old Crow A "young folksy kind of jam element acoustic...
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Calvin Vollrath (section Fiddle)
European-Canadian fiddle players playing professionally in the Métis style. He lives in St. Paul, Alberta. Vollrath won the Grand North American Old Time Fiddle Championship...
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Flowers of Edinburgh (category Fiddle music)
traditional fiddle tune, of eighteenth century Scottish lineage. It is also prominent in American fiddle, Canadian fiddle and wherever old time fiddle is cultivated...
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started around 1963. The label produced original "country music" from old-time fiddle, bluegrass, and banjo to more modern electric guitar and steel guitar...
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Quebec fiddle is a part of the Old time fiddle canon and is influential in New England and Northwest fiddle styles. According to Reiner and Anick, the...
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Galax, Virginia (redirect from Old Fiddlers' Convention)
player and coach Dori Freeman, singer and songwriter Charlie Higgins, old-time fiddle player Mary Holland, actress and comedian Penelope W. Kyle, president...
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Angelina Baker (section Fiddle tune)
the Baker" is a popular fiddle or banjo tune, and differs from the Stephen Foster melody. It is part of the old time fiddle canon, but is also played...
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Brad Leftwich (category Appalachian old-time fiddlers)
concerts, and music camps, written books on both fiddle and banjo, released instructional old-time fiddle videos and written articles on traditional fiddling...
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Willie Watson (musician) (category Old-time musicians)
of old-time fiddle music" was being played, some of it by banjo player Richie Stearns and the group Donna The Buffalo. Watson was exposed to old-time music...
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dictionary. Fiddlesticks are sticks used to play rhythmic accompaniment in old-time fiddle music. Fiddlesticks may also refer to: Fiddlesticks (1927 film), a...
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Gid Tanner (category Southern old-time fiddlers)
VRLP-303 (197?), reissued as VRCD-303 (1997) The Skillet Lickers, Old-Time Fiddle Tunes and Songs from North Georgia, County CD-3509 (1996) The Skillet...
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spoon percussion. Canadian Old time fiddle is a genre of American folk music. "Old time fiddle tunes" may be played on fiddle, banjo or other instruments...
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Fiddle Festival in 1997. In 1999, he won the U.S. National Fiddle Championship in Weiser, Idaho, at the age of 17. He won the Canadian Open Old Time Fiddle...
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Charlie Bowman (category Southern old-time fiddlers)
20, 1962) was an American old-time fiddle player and string band leader. He was a major influence on the distinctive fiddle sound that helped shape and...
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musicians Ted Olson (2014). "Carroll Best: Old-Time 'Fiddle-Style Banjo' from the Great Smoky Mountains". The Old-Time Herald. 13 (10): 10–19. ISSN 1040-3582...
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dance-ready rhythms. Quebec fiddle is a part of the old time fiddle canon and is influential in New England and Northwest fiddle styles. According to Reiner...
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on the Mountain may refer to: "Fire on the Mountain", a traditional old time fiddle tune dating to at least the early 19th century Fire on the Mountain...
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