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The Fiddler’s Rag is published monthly by the Santa Clara Valley Fiddlers Association and is provided to members of the Association. The Santa Clara Valley Fiddlers Association (SCVFA), founded in 1973 in San Jose, California, is a nonprofit, volunteer-operated organization dedicated to the preservation, teaching, and enjoyment of traditional music. The first membership in a household includes the Fiddler’s Rag; additional members sharing the newsletter are steeply discounted. To join, sign up at the jam or see www.fiddlers.org/join.
Officers and Chairs President-Trustee .......... Susan Goodis Newsletter Publisher .. Charlotte Prater Vice President ................. Élan Alford Performances Contact ............... OPEN Recording Secretary .... Anne Raphael Publicity .................................... OPEN Treasurer .................. Dinah Showman Webmaster .................... Pete Showman Membership Secretary Pete Showman News Editor ................... Patrice Tanti
Trustees Seat 1: Pete Showman Seat 3: Bert Raphael Seat 5: Peter Forrest Seat 2: Élan Alford Seat 4: Wes Mitchell Seat 6: Cindy Dinga
To Contact the SCVFA: Mail: P.O. Box 2666, Cupertino, CA 95015-2666 Email to Susan Goodis: [email protected]
Newsletter Submissions & Comments: [email protected] Address changes: [email protected]
Website: www.scvfa.org or www.fiddlers.org Copyright 2018, Santa Clara Valley Fiddlers Association
The Santa Clara Valley Fiddlers Association is a non-profit member-supported organization.
Donations to SCVFA are greatly appreciated and will assist in
keeping traditional music alive by passing it on to the next generation.
Many local corporations offer matched donations for non-
profits. Check with your employer... they may offer this benefit. You can easily add SCVFA as a 501(c)(3) organization;
our EIN is 51-0196154
Donate as you are able and traditional music will reap the benefits.
Fiddler’s Rag April 2018 Page 3
SCVFA Happenings
Mark Your Calendar - Upcoming Events
4/1 1:00 – 5:00 SCVFA Music Jam and Open Mike at Hoover Middle School. More info at www.scvfa.org or www.fiddlers.org
4/7 Cloverdale Fiddle Festival More info at www.cloverdalefiddles.com
4/11-15 Julian Family Fiddle Camp, Julian CA For info email [email protected], check www.familyfiddlecamp.com or call (760) 522-8458
4/12-15 Walker Creek Spring Music Camp More info at www.walkercreekmusiccamp.org
4/19 7:30 House Concert - The Last Whole Earth Revival featuring Brett Ratliff and Betse & Clarke A collaboration of music and stories from Kentucky and the Ozarks. Reservations: [email protected] 5/10-13 Parkfield Bluegrass Festival (Monterey County). More info at www.parkfieldbluegrass.org
SCVFA Slow Jam current tune list www.scvfa.org/learning/#slowjam
Angeline The Baker (D) Arkansas Traveler (D) Barlow Knife (G) Girl I Left Behind Me (G) Jaybird (D) June Apple (A) Liberty (D) Mississippi Sawyer (D) Over The Waterfall (D)
Red-Haired Boy (A) Red Wing (G) Shoo Fly (D) Soldier’s Joy (D) Squirrel Hunters (A) St. Anne’s Reel (D) Swallowtail Jig (E) Whiskey Before Breakfast (D) Wildwood Flower (C)
You may have noticed that we have added a new image to the right side of the “Fiddler’s Rag” name on page 1. This image includes a guitar, fiddle, mandolin, and banjo.
SCVFA wants musicians to know that we are “not just for fiddlers”.
March 7th Board Meeting Notes By Anne Raphael, recording Secretary
Rag e-delivery – we still need to check email addresses and make sure that people are OK with getting it as an email. We expect to cut costs when we go to e-delivery of the Rag. We will need to make a minor revision to the Bylaws to allow e-delivery to more than one person in a household. We will offer an opt-out of the email delivery.
We are seeing a possible problem of people not entering the auditorium at the jam and not paying, but just going into groups outside to jam. We should ask anyone who doesn’t have a name-tag if they’ve been to the admission desk.
Slow jam going well with two leaders.
The slow jam will be from 1:30 to 2:30 at each jam. We added Barlow Knife and Shoo Fly to the Slow Jam tune list.
Square is letting us accept credit cards at the jam and money goes into our savings account within a couple of days. Membership increase of 6 household from 2 months earlier, but decrease of 3 from a year ago.
We need to find someone for the performance coordinator job soon! It requires someone to arrange players and communicate with the venues, and doing a good job of outreach takes time.
Charlie Walden offered to do a mini-concert at the May jam for no fee. He is a Missouri old time style fiddler.
The July, August and September jams will be at the San Jose Rose Garden. No admission will be charged however we will encourage donations at the park.
The SCVFA playout at the Prusch Farm Mountain Music Festival on Sunday October 7th has now been confirmed. The festival starts at 10am and our SCVFA group will play at 11am so that players can get to our monthly jam at 1:00 that day.
Get your wearable! Email [email protected] for info
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March Jam Photos
Peter Forrest, Dave Magram, Chip Curry and Ken Smith lead a bluegrass group, accompanied by a guitar, harmonica and a cajón rhythm box (Photo: Pete Showman)
Happy 45th to the SCVFA! (Photo: Pete Showman)
A mixed bluegrass and old-time jam (Photo: Pete Showman)
John Sellers, Dave Magram, Arthur Kee, Chip Curry, Ken Smith and Linda Maki play and sing bluegrass on stage (Photo: Pete Showman)
Gary Breitbard dancing with Lee Clarke (Photo: Karen Misenhimer)
Fiddler’s Rag April 2018 Page 5
March Jam Photos
The Slow Jam learns Irish. The tempo is kept at 60-90 beats per minute. (Photo: Susan Goodis)
Mandolin player Warren Nokleberg (Photo: Susan Goodis)
Warren Campbell on the fiddle and Ken Jones on the guitar (Photo: Susan Goodis)
Strings taking a break (Photo: Susan Goodis)
Bluegrass jam – love to sing to the music (Photo: Susan Goodis)
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Thanks to Richard Brooks and Janet Johnston for suggesting the inclusion of this article. “V” is for “Violin” By Lew Holt (“Oregon Old-Time Fiddlers’ Association”)
Good morning. Here I come -- kind of different. (I may have shared this another time.) Recently while I was going through old papers, I ran across this article (see left photo). Little Christine, now 35 years older, lives in Washington. Her older sister, Paula, who was in kindergarten, now lives in Chile where her mother, Maria, was originally from. I have been retired going on 34 years so the ad in the Coos Bay paper was before that. I was very pleased and complimented back then to see Joe's Electric Hospital ad in the paper. Christine's mother, Maria, would come to Hillcrest every day to pick up Christine's older sister who was in KG. I would often greet them as I went to the cafeteria. One day I took 3-year-old Christine on a tour of the cafeteria. She was fascinated as she saw the classes come down the stairs and into the cafeteria every day. Maria and I became very good friends and have kept in contact over the years. Thanks for coming down the stairs to the cafeteria with me today.
Alice and Lew Holt
(Photo from Oregon Old Time Fiddlers’ Association photo album compiled by Lew Holt)
Lew’s Bio by Richard Brooks: Lew Holt is a fiddler living in Salem, Oregon, who I know personally. He sends out a weekly newsletter usually about his family history. However, his newsletter today is about the letter "V" that he had to explain as an elementary school principal.
You can hear MIDI renderings of the tune at www.showman.org/tunes/
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Pattern: (AABB) xN (16+32 bars)
Key: D Midnight on the Water by Luke Thomasson,= 40 arr. Pete Showman
Sometimes played with fiddle(s) in "dead man’s tuning": DDAD.
A D (DM7)
(Continue A or D drones to taste)
(D6) D
43
5 D G D A7 D D1 2
B9 D (DM7) (D6) D
13 Em Bm
17 G (or like meas. 10 above) D
21 D G D A7 D D
( )(to repeat tune)
1 2
( )
This arrangement is a mix of how I play it and some ideas from The Waltz Book and various performances on YouTube.
Some accompanists like to play the first four measures of each part as shown in parentheses above: | D | DM7 | D6 | D | .(These walk down a modified D scale: the D chord is D-F#-A-D; DM7 adds a ‘C#’; D6 makes it a ‘B’, and the final Dchord can emphasize the ‘A’ note.) The ‘A’-note drone suggested above works fine with the basic D chord, but not sowell with this optional progression. Another melody-instrument option is to try to play those extra notes along with themelody. For example (fiddle fingering shown):
D DM7 D6 D2+3
2+2+
( )
2+1+
Or play the extra notes low, e.g.:
42+
3+2+
( )
2+2+
Transcribed, arranged and typeset in ABC Plus by Pete Showman 11/30/2017.
Santa Clara Valley Fiddlers Association P.O. Box 2666 Cupertino, CA 95015-2666
SCVFA Jam on the first Sunday of each month. Location: Hoover Middle School, 1635 Park Ave., San Jose. The school is at the corner of Naglee and Park. Cafeteria parking is on the Naglee side. Damaged or Missing Issue? Call us,
or email to: [email protected]
Next Jam: Sunday Apr. 1st, 1-5 pm at Hoover.
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