Episode #30 @Nite w/Patt – London Hornpipe
This episode features excerpts from the Big Fiddle Show broadcast on March 27, 2020. Our featured tune, one “Straight Outta[…]
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This episode features excerpts from the Big Fiddle Show broadcast on March 27, 2020. Our featured tune, one “Straight Outta[…]
Read moreAn episode of the Big Fiddle Show from the depths of the Great Pestilence. Originally broadcast on March 26, 2020. With Charlie Walden & Patt Plunkett. Our featured tune is Bob Walter’s Breakdown in C.
Read moreVirtual Winter Camp Calvin When you can’t travel, but still want to get out and about what can you do?[…]
Read moreWoah there hoss! It’s another Episode of Possum’s Big Fiddle Show @NITE! What to we do on PBFS@NITE! you may ask. Well pard’, we play along with the greatest fiddlers of all time on YouTube and you can play right along. Tonite we’re sawin’ along with Ontario fiddle legend Ward Allen. Tonight it’s Maple Leaf Two-Step, Blue Pacific Hornpipe, Fiddler’s Dream, Marie Ann Reel, The Old Box Stove, Snowflake Reel, and finally the beautiful Peek-A-Boo Waltz. Get your fiddle out and join in!
Read moreIt’s BigFiddleShow@NITE! for February 11, 2020. We played from a list of six Andy DeJarlis tune tongiht: Romeo’s First Change, Andy’s Centennial Two-Step, Golden Boy Two-Step, Backwoodsman’s Reel, Jimmy’s Jig and The Lucky Trapper Reel. Join in the fun next time and get your fiddle out and play along.
Read moreI’ve always thought that the best darn tune book in the world is Cole’s 1000 Fiddle Tunes. Now to commemorate[…]
Read moreHere’s a little photo gallery of some of the great musicians we heard at the AQLF – Quebec City Chapter[…]
Read moreSquare Dance 78s, Solomon Family, Calvin Vollrath, Teddy Roosevelt
In this exciting episode your host plays more 78s from the “Square Dance Box”. This is a heavy metal case of square dance records from the 1950s that Patt’s mother picked up at a thrift shop in Sarasota some years back. There a passle of 78 rpm records in it plus notes and set lists used by a real working Western-Style square dance caller. Quite a find. I’ll also play you a little bit of the Solomon family and a cut from a new CD by Calvin Vollrath’s I picked up at Pembroke last year.
BTW, our good friends Heidi and Chris Germain were in town last weekend from Philly. We had a nice visit and even threw a little music party Saturday night. So here’s a special shoutout to them.
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Read morePeople said it couldn’t be done – like the moon landing (which actually was done on a hurriedly assembled movie set in El Segundo – but that’s a topic for another podcast). Still, here they are – Get Up in the Cool’s Cameron DeWhitt and Possum’s Big Fiddle Show’s Charlie Walden squaring of before your very eyes and/or ears.
This is the crossover podcast extravaganza of the millenium. There’s patter on everything from beer to Garth Brooks to Bluegrass and back to beer, too! Recorded right on the spot at the 2018 Brandywine Revival Festival on June 16, 2018.
We cut down on some banjo & fiddle duets, too. You’ll hear an Ozarks hoe-down Humansville, Kenny Baker’s Brandywine, Pete McMahan’s versions Talk to Dinah & Virginia Darlin’, a Canadian import (duty-free!) Whiskey Before Breakfast and lastly Buddy Thomas’ Turkey in the Pea Patch.
Read moreMy guest is long-time musical ally and starvation box devotee Mike “Wichita Slim” Miller. He’s coming to you live via Skype from Elkins, WV. We share an adult beverage, take a call on the “hotline” from a listener in the frozen wilds of Ontario, reminisce about our fabled 2012 five boroughs Guinness tour, and try to play a few tunes together across the the internet.
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