Hello fiddlers and friends of fiddle,
The Chicago Fiddle Camp will be returning for its second year this year, July 12-19 at the Chicago Waldorf School! Students will have the chance to immerse themselves in fiddle style, improvisation, back-up techniques, style points, and also create their own pieces in small groups. In my own [...]
I am thinking about doing something with this medley I wrote for my students, namely, using it again in my teaching. Boil the Cabbage is often taught as a first fiddle tune. I do my best here to make it more interesting…
Here is an alternate take of my solo piece “Interchange” from from Infrastructure.
Chicago Fiddle Camp has come and gone! Thanks to everyone who attended, and to the Chicago Waldorf School for hosting it. It felt good and we’d like to do it again next year…
Apartment Blues. We’ve all had them. Think of this as an ode to apartment neighbors.
This time I went farther in terms of working off my experience and illustrating it. In constructing this music, I was thinking about the other day– waking up sleepy, riding the green line into downtown, getting my free flu shot (thanks Daley) and coming home.
In thinking about a Halloween song, it’s hard not to have it turn into a cartoon sort of piece. I think got just the right amount of spook. Here’s a Halloween Waltz.
