Episode #1 with John Blisard
My guest is long-time friend and West Virginia musical icon John Blisard of Big Chimney. We talk bagpipes, harps, fiddles, Frank George and play a few tunes.
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Tag: violin
Wednesday Tune-Fix: Pike’s Peak
This tune was recorded in 1933 by Ted Sharp who hailed from the Arkansas Ozarks. The band Hinman, Sharp and[…]
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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[…]
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Wednesday Tune Fix: Little Burnt Potato
This little jig from Canada we first heard back in the 70s from two sources. Locally in Missouri it was[…]
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Valse Bleue
A couple of years ago when we were up in Pembroke, Ontario, at the big fiddle festival, my friend Jacquelin[…]
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Wednesday Tune-Fix: Nile Wilson’s Oak Ridge Stomp
Another Nile Wilson hoe-down called Oak Ridge Stomp, this time in the key of D. It’s a snappy little piece[…]
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Wednesday Tune-Fix: Nile Wilson’s Tie-Hacker #1
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)
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: Nile Wilson’s New Boston Hornpipe
One of the best fiddlers I ever met in Missouri, and one of the least known and appreciated I think,[…]
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Wednesday Tune-Fix: Country Waltz
I first heard this waltz on the old K-TEL fiddle record 25 Old-Tyme Fiddle Hits. OTFH was actually an American[…]
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