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Kafein’s Northern Fiddle Session in Evanston (Wednesday, February 28th)

It happening again! — the Patt and Possum monthly fiddle session at Kafein. Wednesday, February 28, 7:30 to 9:30 PM[…]

This little jig from Canada we first heard back in the 70s from two sources. Locally in Missouri it was[…]

A couple of years ago when we were up in Pembroke, Ontario, at the big fiddle festival, my friend Jacquelin[…]

Patt and I are tickled to be leading a new monthly instrumental fiddle session starting this coming Wednesday, January 24,[…]

I first heard this waltz on the old K-TEL fiddle record 25 Old-Tyme Fiddle Hits. OTFH was actually an American[…]

This is a Canadian jig that I’ve mostly heard played G, but can also played in F (thanks to my[…]

I first heard Shamus O’Brien Waltz being played by Cyril Stinnett of Oregon, MO, in the mid-1970s. His rendition was[…]

Wow, what a summer we had! First we went to the Bethel Adult Fiddle Camp in Bethel, MO, then Patt &[…]

These are field recordings of the 1966 Canadian Open Fiddle Contest at Shelburne, ONT, from the collection of Delores “Fiddlin’ Dee”[…]

Thanks to my friend Sue Ward in New Brunswick for reminding me that her uncle, Canadian fiddle great Ned Landry,[…]