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Workshop #1, from 1:00 to 2:00PM: Old Time music from Missouri, Indiana and Northern Kentucky: Learn a tune or two from these areas concentrating on left hand and clean bow attack. For novice to advanced fiddlers. Workshop #2, from 2:30 to 3:30PM: Irish Fiddling for contra dances: Learn some tunes and stylistic adaptations that make this music more suitable for dances. For novice to advanced fiddlers. No stranger to New Mexico, Jamie has been visiting and performing here for the past 10 years. He has been studying Irish and Old Time music for well over 25 years. In 1993, he received an award from the Minnesota State Folk Arts Program and this year he is the recipient of a fellowship from the Indianapolis Arts Council to collect music in Ireland and Scotland. Formerly a principal musician with Rhythm In Shoes, an accomplished midwestern dance company, he now performs with his wife, Tamara Loewenthal (step dancer and caller) in their group Fiddle'n Feet out of Bloomington Indiana.
Workshop fees for FolkMADS' members: $15 each or $25 for both. (Nonmembers' fees: $20 each or $30 for both). |
