All Community Blog Posts (10)

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 Read Article Online Source: Twitter -… Continue

I spent a week at the Festival of American Fiddletunes in Port Townsend, WA. There were several styles represented; Cajun, Swing, Tejano, Québecois, New England Contradance, American Old Time, and my own style, Canadian Old Time. It was so wonderful being around so many different pockets of fiddle music. It's not all about competition, and playing 3 tunes technically perfect and impressing 3 judges. It's about heart. And it's about making people smile, and feel emotion, through playing music.… Continue

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

On the The FiddleTunes Channel, there are daily YouTube published videos from the 2009 Festival of American Fiddle Tunes that is being held June 28 - July 5.… Continue

We've expanded facilities to accommodate a few more registrants - space is extremely limited. Please register today if you want to attend our 2009 week-long workshop, June 28-July 5. Go to www.centrum.org and click "Register for Workshops." See you then! Continue

PORT TOWNSEND, WA—A short concert followed by a long dance will rock Fort Worden State Park’s JFK building on Thursday, March 5, starting at 7:30 pm. Called by Suzanne Giradot, the music will feature Québécois band De Temps Antan (“Yesteryear”). “This is a band that people love to dance to,” said Fiddle Tunes program manager Peter McCracken. “After seeing the audience response that De Temps Antan received during their short set at a 2008 Festival of Am… Continue

Hey, on behalf of all of us at Centrum, I'd like to welcome you to the community site for Fiddle Tunes at Centrum. If you are reading this post, you are connected in some way to the fiddle tunes community here at Centrum. Perhaps you are a workshop participant. Or a music teacher, or an aspiring musician. Maybe you are a concert attendee, a program volunteer--or maybe you just like reading/watching/listening online to what is going on. We would like to make it easier for you to connect with ea… Continue