Something different
Darol Anger and Brittany Haas…
Modern greats
Alison Krauss and Natalie MacMaster. My heros and keepers of memories from childhood and early adult years.…
Fiddling for an audience
Uncollected thoughts about recent playing. Two Sundays ago I said goodbye to a dear friend M: the soprano section leader at my choir. We never really said too many words to each other, but it's through the weekly act of singing and breathing together that we forged our relationship. I…
That Lonesome Road
Old-time music keeps me grounded. In the middle of a busy life, filled with desires, regrets, decisions on issues of health, love, and life, this keeps me here. When I listen to and play old-time music, I am no longer lonely.…
Bruce Molsky and Debra Clifford's Old Time Rollick at the Ashokan Center 2018
At the opening jam on Friday afternoon, Bruce announced to everyone to let go of any expectations we had about the weekend. Going into it I was just happy to finally get off the Greyhound bus. Over the next three days, I heard sounds I can honestly say I've never…
Practice Log April 12th, 2018
45 min It's been a while since I practiced. I'm home sick today and skipped work and choir. Took my fiddle out to CSI and played for about 45 min. I haven't had time to practice and it showed. Fingers are a bit stiff and intonation is not as good.…
Breathing together
I wanted to start writing about my choral singing life as well as my fiddle practice. So far it's been hard to write (as in I want to write, but no words come). I want to explore a bit about that. Singing is all about breathing and forming sounds. Choral…
Love this sound - Flying Home to Shelley
The Sound Accord https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3f3fSJrAc0 playing Flying Home to Shelley by Paul Gitlitz http://www.glitchless.net/ followed by Pressed for Time, a pipe tune by Gordan Duncan. I'm going to learn this! I tried a little bit of the first part of Flying Home…