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  • Casey Driessen: 5-string fiddle hunt

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    Here's something any musician can identify with... the hunt for a new axe. Casey Driessen takes us along as he and Luke Bulla journey to Scottsburg, IN and the shop of noted violinmaker John Silakowski to check out some new 5-string

  • Jim Van Cleve fiddle DVD

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    Everyone seemed to get a kick out of the fake trailer for Jim Van Cleve's AcuTab fiddle DVD which we ran last week. Jim said that he heard from people all over the country who had gotten a chuckle from

  • Free fiddle lessons from Childsplay

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    We posted back in July about the fabulous new CD, Waiting For The Dawn. It is a project of Childsplay, a non-profit organization that has sprung from the annual meetings that violin maker Bob Childs has been hosting this past

  • Jim Van Cleve DVD Trailer

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    AcuTab is soon to release a new instructional DVD from Mountain Heart fiddler, Jim Van Cleve. The product is actually a two disc set, featuring over 4 hours of instruction from Jim. Disc 1 contains a good deal of instruction in

  • Mark O'Connor video from The New Yorker

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    Fiddle virtuoso Mark O'Connor has been showing up everywhere of late. He is on the cover of the September 2009 issue of Strings Magazine, and received a profile in the September 7 edition of The New Yorker's Talk Of The Town

  • Barbara Lamb – Twisty Girl

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    Twisty Girl is the name of the latest CD from fiddler, vocalist and songwriter Barbara Lamb. It contains 10 new tracks - all Lamb originals - with Scott Vestal on banjo, banjo uke and synth banjo, Mike Bub and Scott Esbeck

  • Strings profiles Mark O'Connor

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    Strings magazine has just released a nice profile piece on fiddler/violinist Mark O'Connor. The article only briefly covers O'Connor's past, with the bulk of the content focused on his current and future projects. Among these are his continued involvement with music

  • Folk Arts Quartet

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    We've commented a number of times about the fertile acoustic string music scene in and around Boston, MA. It is fueled in large part by the number of prestigious and highly selective music schools in the area, and a willingness

  • Michael Jackson tribute on fiddle

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    I guess it had to happen... Casey Driessen has created a looped, all-fiddle version of Billie Jean as a Michael Jackson tribute.  Watching him stack the loops and then play the melody shows how well Casey has mastered the technology -

  • Childsplay – Waiting For The Dawn

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    Bob Childs is a noted violin maker based in Cambridge, MA. His instruments are played by members of Boston's acclaimed symphony orchestra as well as folk, old time and Irish musicians worldwide. Childs is a fiddler himself, having imbibed the fiddle