Fiddler - August 2018

Fall 2018 features include Jay Ungar and Molly Mason: Healing Music; Music Therapy; Remembering Stacy Phillips; San Antonio's Belen Escobedo; Fiddlin' Banjo Billy Mathews; Andrew Finn Magill: Canta Violino!; Nashville Violin Maker Jennifer Halenar; Mathias Lévy: Accent on Innovation. Regular columns include Fiddle Tune History: Ignatius Sancho; Jody's Column: A Certain Funhouse Charm; Bluegrass Fiddling: Johnny & Paul Warren; Notes on Learning: The Learning Process; Scottish Fiddling with Pete Clark: A Wee Stravaig; The Hidden Note: Making the Commonplace Uncommon; Irish Fiddling: John Kelly's Sense of Space; On Improvisation: You Have to Know Chords; "Fiddle-toon" (cartoon); The Practicing Fiddler: A Beginner's Guide to Open Tuning; The Intrepid Fiddler: A Step Back in Time; Crossword Puzzle; Reviews. Tunes in this issue: "The Quiet Room," by Jay Ungar; "Hornpipe," by Ignatius Sancho; "The Merry Wives of Westminster," by Ignatius Sancho; "Rocky Pallet," transcribed by Jody Stecher as played by Lowe Stokes; "Four Cent Cotton," transcribed by Jody Stecher as played by Lowe Stokes; "Katy Did," transcribed by Jody Stecher as played by Lowe Stokes; "Two Hog Weeds and One Stalk of Corn," transcribed by Paul Shelasky as played by Johnny Warren; "Donald Mackenzie's," by Gregor Lowrey; "Bruce Sandison's Two-Step," by Pete Clark; "The Boys of Bluehill," transcribed by Caoimhín Mac Aoidh based on the playing of Martin McGinley, Mickey Doherty, and Caoimhín Mac Aoidh; "The Killard Reel," transcibed by Dan Accardi as played by John Kelly; "Going Across the Sea," transcribed by Jim Wood (GDGD); "Luzinda Waltz," transcribed by Gus Garelick.