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It’s a lesson the industry has been learning for about a decade now: If you can’t sell music, sell something else. (Hey, it beats complaining about “kids today” and their utter disrespect for copyright.)

From soup cans to sonic Buddhas, there is life beyond the stream. Here are 10 of our favorites. (Feel free to add your own suggestions below.)

Wired Magazine
By Eliot Van Buskirk
July 13, 2009
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Thanks for posting them (ed: video) on your site (centrumfiddle.ning.org) and also for adding pertinent information such as names etc.

Yes...I will open an account to be able to post there. (ed: Steve when you open your account here add a comment on this blog post)

This was my first time at the event and I was so taken by everything that I will plan on making it an annual event.

I used to play a violin in junior high and high school many years ago.

Recently, I purchased a… Continue

JENNIFER JACKSON
July 2, 2009

PORT TOWNSEND -- Each year, Juan Reynoso travels thousands of miles from his home in Mexico to Port Townsend for one reason: to keep his music alive.

Reynoso, 90, is a national treasure of Mexico and a human repository of more than 1,000 sones and gustos, the folk music of his native Tierra Caliente, an isolated area of southwest Mexico.

Ironically, Reynoso's music only started to be apprecia… Continue

Twitter cell phone interview with teenage Port Angeles fiddlers Ryan (L) and Sam Langley.

Hmmmm. We will do better next time. Looks like we lost the connection before we got started.... Continue

The Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader
7/1/2009


A full weekend of concerts and dances featuring the Kane Sisters of Ireland, the Cajun stylings of the Red Stick Ramblers, and Riley Baugus of "Cold Mountain" fame, among many others, turns Fort Worden State Park into the center of North American and international fiddle tune traditions July 3-4.

The Festival of American Fiddle Tunes is one of the largest celebrations of… Continue