We’re back for Week 8 of Fiddle Tune Tuesdays with another tune from North Carolina, this time with “June Apple,” popularized by the prolific Mt. Airy, North Carolina, fiddler Tommy Jarrell (1901-1985).
Over the course of his career, Tommy Jarrell recorded seven albums and toured extensively. In 1982, three years before his death, he was selected as one of fifteen master folk artists in the first National Heritage Fellowships of the National Endowment for the Arts.
After a short hiatus, Late for the Train is back for Week 7 of Fiddle Tune Tuesdays week with a tune by the contemporary songwriter, musician, and storyteller Rhiannon Giddens.
Rhiannon is originally from North Carolina, is a founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, and is a true explorer of music and culture. She's been instrumental in reviving the lesser-shared (and sometimes intentionally erased) histories of black voices, instruments, and culture in folk and old-time music from the American South.
One question that we seem to get a lot at shows is “What is that microphone?” A common choice for intimate performances (like these live videos by I’m With Her, Billy Strings, The Wood Brothers, and Keb’ Mo’), it’s a microphone made by Ear Trumpet Labs named Myrtle.
We're back for week 6 of Fiddle Tune Tuesdays!
This week we're bringing you La Partida, a Venezuelan waltz written by Carlos Bonnet (October 29, 1892 – January 16, 1983). Bonnet was a Venezuelan composer and conductor who wrote many beautiful songs, though none so lastingly popular (as far as we can gather) as La Partida.
How the time flies… it’s already week 5 of Fiddle Tune Tuesdays!
When we first started this musical endeavor, we threatened to throw original tunes (and even songs) into the mix. This week, we’re making good on our threat with "Waiting for Summer," an original tune that Dave wrote in the spring of 2017.
