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Scottish Fiddle Sessions at the Duke of Perth Pub

December 24, 2018 Charlie Walden Contests & Events, Learn A New Tune, News You Can't Use, Reviews & Opinions

Week before last we took  in another of the ocassional Scottish fiddle sessions at the Duke of Perth in Chicago’s Lakeview[…]

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

February 22, 2018 Charlie Walden Contests & Events, News You Can't Use, Notation & Leadsheets

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

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Wednesday Tune Fix: Old Ladies Picking Chickens

February 21, 2018 Charlie Walden Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

This is great little tune from the Missouri Valley region that we got from Dwight Lamb. The tune is set[…]

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Wednesday Tune-Fix: Nile Wilson’s Tie-Hacker #1

January 24, 2018 Charlie Walden History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

This another of Nile Wilson’s tunes called the Tie-Hacker #1 (of course there’s a #2). The tie-hackers were itinerant railroad laborers[…]

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Kafein’s Northern Fiddle Session in Evanston (Wednesday, January 24)

January 18, 2018 Charlie Walden Contests & Events, Learn A New Tune, News You Can't Use, Notation & Leadsheets

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

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Wednesday Tune-Fix: Oklahoma Redbird

January 3, 2018 Charlie Walden Bluegrass Fiddle, History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

OK, we’re really on a run here with Lyman Enloe tunes. What’s not to like, right? Here’s one in Bb-flat[…]

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Wednesday Tune Fix – Dusty’s Hornpipe

June 7, 2017 Charlie Walden Bluegrass Fiddle, Learn A New Tune

Another great Kenny Baker original, Dusty’s Hornpipe appears on another of Kenny’s solo fiddle LPs released in 1972, called Kenny[…]

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Wednesday Tune Fix – White Horse Breakdown

May 31, 2017 Charlie Walden Learn A New Tune

This is one of my favorite original Kenny Baker hoe-downs. Set in the key of G, it uses the full[…]

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Wednesday Tune Fix – Grey Eagle in C

April 12, 2017 Charlie Walden Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

There are a lot of Grey Eagles out there. The most famous one is in the key of A and[…]

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Wednesday Tune Fix – Pete McMahan’s Happy Jack

March 22, 2017 Charlie Walden History & Folklore, Learn A New Tune, Notation & Leadsheets

The old fiddle tune Happy Jack I learned the tune from Pete McMahan. To my thinking it is one of[…]

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