Fiddle Workshop w/ Elke Baker

Elke Baker writes:

Hello Music friends!

Winter greetings! I am writing to let you know about an upcoming concert and music workshop that I'll be teaching.

It's an entire weekend of Fiddle Mania at the Upper Potomac (Shepherdstown WV) Fiddle Retreat, January 29-31, 2010. The all-star list of instructors includes Tina Chancey, Joe DeZarn, Joe Herrmann, Adam Hurt, Laura Light, Eden MacAdam-Somer, Larry Unger, and me, teaching all kinds of fiddle styles and other instruments. The instructors will all give a concert on Friday night, January 29, at 8 pm at Reynolds Hall, Shepherd College, Shepherdstown WV. I'll be teaching on Saturday, January 30, and the topics include:
*Scottish and English fiddle for Advance Beginner & Intermediate levels
*Scottish Fiddle for Intermediate & Advanced levels
*Scottish Band for all instruments
As usual, I'll include the next allotments of my favorite topics, "Strathspey Mechanics" and "Tune Sleuth: How to Get More out of Anonymous Tunes" as part of these courses.

You may register for all or part of the weekend. Scholarships are available: please ask! For further information about the Fiddle Retreat Weekend, check the website at www.upperpotomacmusic.info or contact Joanie Blanton ( (304) 263-2531 or updf@earthlink.net).

For concert tickets, follow the link above or go directly to http://smad.us/concerts/ for further information. As usual, tickets may be purchased by following the online instructions, at the door, or in advance at O'Hurley's General Store in Shepherdstown.

I hope to see you at the concert or the workshops! If not, check my website at www.elkebaker.com for a list of upcoming events, and I hope to see you down the road sometime. Stay tuned for news of my new recording--it should be ready sometime in 2010.

In other news, I have several months worth of tune lists I hope to post soon.

January Fiddle Club Jam

A great fiddle club meeting, and a great jam. Here are the tunes we played:

Leaving St. Kilda
Muckin' o Geordie's Byre/Stool of Repentance
Hills of Lorne
Wi' A Hundred Pipers
Julia Delany
Tam Lin/Tongadale/Knockadhu
My Cape Breton Home
Sir Reginald MacDonald
McPherson's Farewell
Bonnie at Morn
This is no my ain Hoose/Largo's Fairy Dance/Barrowburn/High Road to Linton
Maggie's Pancakes
Cordwainer's March
Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch
Hector the Hero
Highland Whisky/Miss Drummond of Perth/The Drunken Piper

January Royal Mile Jam

A great jam to start the year! Here are the tunes we played:

High Drive
Stool of Repentance/Muckin' o' Geordie's Byre
Mor a Chennaich/Barrowburn Reel/Soldier's Joy/Deil Amang the Tailors
Lieutenant Maguire/Jig Runrig
Tune for Glendale
9 Pint Coggie (Laura Risk's version)
The Lime Hill/Sweetness of Mary/Miss Drummond of Perth/Brenda Stubbert's/Father Francis Cameron
Spootiskerry/Sleep Soond ida Moarnin/Willafjord
Lay Dee at Dee/Da Faroe Rum
Miss Spence's/Donald Blue
High Road to Linton
Lady Magdalena Sinclair
Sailor's Wife/Cushion Dance/My Wife's a Wanton Wee Thing
Smith's a Gallant Fireman/This is no my ain Hoose/Petronella
Flowers of Edinburgh/Fairy Dance
Duke of Fife's Welcome to Deeside/Earl of Mansfield/Terribus
Neil Gow's Lament for the Death of his Second Wife
24th Guards Brigade at Anzio
Bonny Ship the Diamond
Shetland Fiddler/Trip to Pakistan
Devil in the Kitchen/The Drunken Piper
Lexy McAskill
Lochanside
Julia Delaney
Braes of Banffshire/The Merry Making
Munlochy Bridge/Hughie Shortie's
Ye Banks & Braes
Bonny at Morn
Monymusk S&R
The Butterfly/Foxhunter's Jig
Yellow Haired Laddie
Highland Whisky/Jack Daniel's/Put Me in a Box
Duke of Fife's Welcome to Deeside/Earl of Mansfield