Fiddle Saturday

By Jonathan Lin in fiddle on

My Saturdays revolve around a group fiddle lesson with Ajineen Sagal at the Gerrard Art Space in Little India. We are using Conservatory fiddletunes "The Red Book" from Calvin Cairns. List of songs we learned so far: The Kesh Jig The Swallow's Tail Tenpenny Bit Lannigan's Ball Joys…

Explosions in the Sky

By Jonathan Lin in concert on

The opening chords of The Birth and Death of the Day were the most natural things in the universe. They spoke to me of things to come: the fulfilled promise of chord progressions that resolve into blinding light and white noise. My hearing aids just about melted through the first…