Fiddler - May 2018

Summer 2018 features include Chicago Irish Fiddler and Composer Liz Carroll; Corrina Rose Logston Stephens; New Brunswick's Robin LeBlanc; Bukhu Ganburged: Horsehead Fiddle Player; Scotland's Dougie MacLean; Growing Up with Bluegrass: Clare Brown; Touring with Texas Legends Dick Barrett and Benny Thomasson; John Mailander: Playing Outside the Lines. Regular columns include On Improvisation: Fracturing "Avalon"; Jody's Column: Pennsylvania Fiddle Tunes; Waltzes & Airs: Evolution of a Favorite Waltz; The Hidden Note: Elementary, My Dear Doyle; Notes on Learning: Relationships in Music; Tune History: "Bad" Tunes; The Intrepid Fiddler: The Fiddling Pendulum; Bluegrass Fiddling: James Price; The Practicing Fiddler: Recording at Home; Reviews; "Fiddle-toon" (cartoon); crossword puzzle. Tunes in this issue: "Rose and Kathleen's Slip Jig" and "Anne Lacey," by Liz Carroll; "Joe Crapeau," transcribed by Lisa Ornstein as played by Robin LeBlanc; "Mr and Mrs MacLean of Snaigow" and "Craigie Dhu," by Dougie MacLean; "Avalon, Straight and Fractured," transcribed by Paul Anastasio (plus video link); "Old Hang On," transcribed by Jody Stecher as played by Pop Hafler (plus audio link); "Tiddle Took Todfish," transcribed by Samuel Bayard; "Westphalia Waltz," as played by Jay Ungar (plus audio link); "The Lad Amongst the Spriggers," transcribed by Caoimhin Mac Aoidh as played by Padraig O'Keeffe; "Miss Mountan's," "Round the Button and Through the Horn," "Johnny Blow the Candle Out," and "Happy Frank" ("Bad" Tunes); "Texas," transcribed by Gus Garelick based on the playing of Chris Carney; "Sittin' on Top of the World," transcribed by Paul Shelasky as played by James Price.