Fiddle music in So. California
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the direction of fiddle music. I would love to hear some live, or if
there are any radio programs featuring fiddle music, I would love to
know. Also, I have recently bought a violin and would love to go from
fiddle admirer to fiddle player. I have looked into lessons, but have
only found instructors who teach classical, not folk-fiddle. Any leads
or contacts would be greatly appreciated. You may email me privately if
you wish.
Thank you!
Kelly
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In article <7sposf$klo$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, <samp...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am new to the SoCal area and was wondering if anyone could point me in
> the direction of fiddle music. I would love to hear some live, or if
> there are any radio programs featuring fiddle music, I would love to
> know. Also, I have recently bought a violin and would love to go from
> fiddle admirer to fiddle player. I have looked into lessons, but have
> only found instructors who teach classical, not folk-fiddle. Any leads
> or contacts would be greatly appreciated. You may email me privately if
> you wish.
Kelly,
What style of fiddle would you like to play? If it's Old-Time you want,
I can point you toward some folks. Frank Hoppe has an old-time and
bluegrass radio show on Saturday mornings on CSUN, the Cal State
Northridge NPR station, but their transmitter is pretty week and you
need to either be on a hill or in the SF Valley to pick them up.
The best O-T fiddler in Southern California is Tom Sauber, though he
doesn't take beginning students, but you should try to catch him
playing for a dance or something.
You might want to go to McCabe's guitar shop in Santa Monica and see if
they have any fiddle teachers on the roster who can get you started. I
started learning from a great Celtic fiddler named Cait Reed, who
currently lives in Redondo Beach. McCabe's also offers lots of
concerts, and might be a good place to find out about other happenings
in town.
I also hear there is a coffee house in Hollywood called Highland
Grounds that has an old-time jam on Sundays. They have a website:
www.highlandgrounds.com
There's also a bluegrass music shop in the Valley called the Blue Ridge
Pickin Parlor. You can probably get some good beginning lessons there.
Another good way to find the music scene would be to check out some of
the dances in town. There is a Contra Dance most Saturday nights in
Brentwood at the community center. There might be a notice about it at
McCabe's.
Hope this helps!
Kerry Blech
he hosts a radio show that features quite a bit of old-time
music -- his .sig file is thus:
>see current "Bluegrass, Etc." playlist at:
>http://www.kcsn.org
>and archived playlists at:
>http://scow.gseis.ucla.edu/students_a-l/fhoppe/html/Web1/Home1.htm
Hopefully those websites will tell you when his show is on the air.
You probably can give him a call at that station while he is on the
air and he can tell you what is going on -- also, he probably lists
on the air a number of events. There are a few other fiddlers from
that area who have frequented this newsgroup so hopefully they'll
chirp up.
Regards,
~kerry
samp...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> I am new to the SoCal area and was wondering if anyone could point me in
> the direction of fiddle music. I would love to hear some live, or if
> there are any radio programs featuring fiddle music, I would love to
> know. Also, I have recently bought a violin and would love to go from
> fiddle admirer to fiddle player. I have looked into lessons, but have
> only found instructors who teach classical, not folk-fiddle. Any leads
> or contacts would be greatly appreciated. You may email me privately if
> you wish.
> Thank you!
> Kelly
>
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Chris Berry
Goldfield) wrote:
>Most immediately, you should hie yourself up to
>Santa Barbara in October for the Goleta Fiddle
>Contest. That's a very good place to meet and hear
>L.A. fiddlers. I don't have the date handy (Mary
>Katherine Aldin posted about it in the last week),
>but it should be not too far from Oct. 10.
It is, indeed, October 10, and here's their website --
http://www.signif.com/oldtime/fiddlers.htm
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Steve Goldfield
Kerry Blech <Blec...@Wolfenet.com> wrote:
#>Frank Hoppe not only plays the fiddle down in the L.A. area,
#>he hosts a radio show that features quite a bit of old-time
#>music -- his .sig file is thus:
Frank and his wife are also active in the L.A. dance
scene. If you hook up with Frank, you should be
well-connected, but, just in case, look for the
California Traditional Music Society (they resumed
holding their huge Solstice festival last June).
And although most chapters of the California Old-Time
Fiddlers apparently lean more to Western Swing,
Mel Durham's chapter around Long Beach is much
more old-time oriented.
Most immediately, you should hie yourself up to
Santa Barbara in October for the Goleta Fiddle
Contest. That's a very good place to meet and hear
L.A. fiddlers. I don't have the date handy (Mary
Katherine Aldin posted about it in the last week),
but it should be not too far from Oct. 10.
Steve
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musicians are very friendly. Frank Hoppe is often there, among other active So
Cal OT players who know about area events. The address is 742 N. Highland at
Melrose, starts at 7pm, phone: 323-466-1507. Also, the food is very good!
Tom Sauber and Brantley Kearns play semi-regularly at a Mexican restaurant in
Burbank called Viva Fresh on Thursday nights. Call the restaurant for the
schedule. They're listed in the LA Weekly.
Topanga Banjo Fiddle
Also make sure to make it out to the 40th annual Topanga Banjo Fiddle
contest next May 21st at Paramount Ranch in Agoura, CA. Many of the
folks mentioned in this thread are alumni of the event. 115 or so
contestants along with three professional bands will play. See our Web
Site:
http://www.topangabanjofiddle.org
Or email us at:
Hope to see you at the event!
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Kerry Blech
>
> The NY Times reports that folkorist Max Hunter passed away. The article
> is at:
>
> >http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-hunter.html
Jim Nelson mentioned this to me last week and our local
paper carried his obituary yesterday. However, I am totally
unfamiliar with him or his name or his work. Most of the quotes
in the obits talk about his collecting aphorisms and quaint
folk sayings. The obit also mentioned that he had been actively
collecting folk songs and fiddle tunes and that collections
of his material resided at "the Smithsonian and in the Library
of Congress." On looking through my documentation of fiddle
collections at the Library of Congress/Archive of Folk Culture,
I fail to come across his name. Could someone more familiar
with Mr. Hunter's work please enlighten me as to some of the
fiddlers and singers he worked with? Perhaps I have encountered
his work, but did not know it. Did he publish any books?
Thanks,
Kerry
Joel Shimberg
>Could someone more familiar
>with Mr. Hunter's work please enlighten me as to some of the
>fiddlers and singers he worked with? Perhaps I have encountered
>his work, but did not know it. Did he publish any books?
>
>Thanks,
>Kerry
Not much more familiar, but I think that I recall an LP of his singing on
FolkLegacy a few (g) years ago. I see (through a veil, darkly) a photo of
him in a pair of overhauls on the cover.
I see (yet more dimly) my abc attempts winging their way to you, Kerry. Thanks.
Joel
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Brent Cantrell
1963. I beleive its still available as a cassette from the Folk
Legacy web site. The collection includes some Child Ballads, some
historic ballads and some lyric song. Notes by Vance Randolph
indicate that his mother was a ballad singer and that Mr. Hunter began
collecting and singing ballads as a hobby during his first job as a
refrigerator salesman.
Brent Cantrell
Knoxville
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 14:32:30 -0500, poly...@xtn.net (Joel Shimberg)
wrote:
Joel Shimberg
Ross) wrote:
>There's an entry for Max Hunter in the Ray Lawless book "Folksingers
>and Folksongs in America" (1965 edition) ....
There's also an interesting entry on Kenny Hall -- worth looking up.
Joel Shimberg
John Ross
singer and collector of folksongs. He was best known for his work in
the Ozarks. He made an early (1963) LP for Folk Legacy called "Ozark
Songs And Ballads".
Far as I can tell, he was more concerned with songs and singers than
fiddlers, which would explain why he's not in the LOC fiddle
documentation.
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:33:05 GMT, Kerry Blech <Blec...@Wolfenet.com>
wrote:
>Paul Mitchell wrote:
>>
>> The NY Times reports that folkorist Max Hunter passed away. The article
>> is at:
>>
>> >http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-hunter.html
>
>Jim Nelson mentioned this to me last week and our local
>paper carried his obituary yesterday. However, I am totally
>unfamiliar with him or his name or his work. Most of the quotes
>in the obits talk about his collecting aphorisms and quaint
>folk sayings. The obit also mentioned that he had been actively
>collecting folk songs and fiddle tunes and that collections
>of his material resided at "the Smithsonian and in the Library
>of Congress." On looking through my documentation of fiddle
>collections at the Library of Congress/Archive of Folk Culture,
>I fail to come across his name. Could someone more familiar
Kerry Blech
>
> There's an entry for Max Hunter in the Ray Lawless book "Folksingers
> and Folksongs in America" (1965 edition) which describes him as a
> singer and collector of folksongs. He was best known for his work in
> the Ozarks. He made an early (1963) LP for Folk Legacy called "Ozark
> Songs And Ballads".
>
> Far as I can tell, he was more concerned with songs and singers than
> fiddlers, which would explain why he's not in the LOC fiddle
> documentation.
>
Thanks, but then I am curious why the obituary I read actually went
out of its way to mention that he had collected countless fiddle
tunes and his work was deposited at the Smithsonian and Library
of Congress. Could some be stored there and not catalogued? Or
perhaps the obit writer was not that familiar with his work and
exaggerated a bit? Jim Nelson sent me a link so I can look up
some information on the late Mr. Hunter. Thanks, everyone,
for expllicating upon his career for me.
~Kerry