This is my ‘Folk and Bluegrass’ playlist on my personal YouTube channel. I curate the playlist, with 263 live music videos at least weekly. It’s one the biggest #playlists of the nineteen I curate on my channel. I’ve collected these #MusicVideos for over a decade, and without being too immodest I think I did a damn good job. You can hit this playlist, sit back and enjoy for hours, days even. Or just keep it on in the background on shuffle. My gift to you. BTW, if you’re not already spending the $18.99/month (USD) for YouTube premium, you’re missing out. I’d get rid of all my other streaming subs, including Netflix & Prime, before I’d part with my #YouTubePremium - Just sayin. #FolkMusic#Bluegrass#Music#Fiddle#Banjo#Guitar#Mandolin
Well, the tip of my thumb has been whittled like wood
The way I'm abusin' the lighter
I'm a-self-medicatin', a-tokin' all day
And a-tryna fight fire with fire
I live by the pipe and I'll die by it too,
Least that's how it seems to me
#NowPlaying - the kentucky colonels, feat. scotty stoneman on #fiddle, live in LA, spring & summer 1965, about a year after #JerryGarcia was regularly following & taping them. aces #bluegrass picking by clarence & roland white, but stoneman's fiddle (& the instrumentals) are the selling point, sounding infinite/timeless/oceanic for bars at a time. shoulda played with henry flynt! plus, garcia on stoneman. @vinylrecords
#NowPlaying - the 2nd (& less all-star) of 2 major label LPs by #bluegrass legend vassar clements, both from '75. though there are some great #jazz moves & wild #fiddle, mostly lands on the country/allmans-y side of western swing. clements is brilliant but there's kinda not enough of him & rest of the band doesn't really grab me. @vinylrecords
🇮🇹 Un duo di fiddle (violino folk) e melodeon (fisarmonica irlandese) che non si stanca mai di suonare. Martin e Clarke e Will Allen fanno una musica che è molto più della somma delle sue parti, non vorrete che finisca! Curiosità -> La fisarmonica si diffuse in Irlanda alla fine del XIX secolo e nella sua forma a dieci tasti (conosciuta con il nome di melodeon). Se negli Usa il melodeon riscosse apprezzamenti, il melodeon è ancora suonato nel Connemara. I moderni suonatori di fisarmonica preferiscono i bottoni a due file. Musicisti moderni come Sharon Shannon, Jackie Daly e Martin O’Connor hanno reso la fisarmonica irlandese un mezzo popolare che ben si accorda con la concertina.
🇬🇧 A dazzling duo of fiddle and melodeon. Martin and Clarke and Will Allen make music that's far more than the sum of its parts, you won't want it to stop! Interesting fact -> The accordion became popular in Ireland in the late 19th century and in its ten-key form (known as the melodeon). While the melodeon gained appreciation in the U.S., it is still played in Connemara. Modern accordion players prefer two-row buttons. Modern musicians such as Sharon Shannon, Jackie Daly, and Martin O'Connor have made the Irish accordion a popular medium that matches well with the concertina.
Great resource. https://www.loc.gov/collections/henry-reed-fiddle-tunes/about-this-collection/
Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection presents traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia. Recorded by folklorist Alan Jabbour in 1966-67, when Reed was over eighty years old, the tunes represent the music and evoke the history and spirit of Virginia's Appalachian frontier. Many of the tunes have passed back into circulation during the fiddling revival of the later twentieth century. #fiddle#fiddletunes
#NowPlaying - home & radio sessions by red cravens & the bray bros., 1964ish, sometimes known as the bluegrass gentlemen, featuring compilation producer john hartford playing #fiddle on 5 cuts. hardcore 2nd generation #bluegrass, great warm vocal/instrumental blends that aren't too show-offy or shrill. not folkways but a very early rounder record. bonus: stamp from flipside in #kalamazoo, where @4CPcomics's father purchased it. the days before shrink wrapped LPs! @vinylrecords
This is a tune that for some reason I thought I learned off the Atlantic Fiddles CD many years ago, but recently when I dug up that recording I didn't find this tune on there, so now I have no idea where I got it from. Anyone else recognize it? It seems it's originally a highland pipe tune.
This is the last part of a Pure Laine fiddle competition in Quebec -- the most intense fiddle contest I've ever seen.
From my friend Chris, who posted this video on FB:
' Contestants take turns playing the A part (16 measures) of a reel of their choice. It has to be in the key indicated by the judge on suggestions from the audience. There can't be a break. And they can't play a tune that has already been played. '
the new good ol’ #gratefuldead-cast series on the 50th anniversary of “wake of the flood” starts today! for these episodes, we’re back in our original format, going song-by-song with outtakes & isolated tracks, starting with LP opener “mississippi half-step” & including very special guests ms. donna jean godchaux, ron rakow (founder of grateful dead records!), @shaugn, new yorker staff writer (& teen hooligan) nick paumgarten, plus isolated vassar clements fiddle & more! https://www.dead.net/deadcast/wake-flood-50-mississippi-half-step-uptown-toodeloo
Costume design for the allegorical figure of music, one of many figures from the 1585 Winter tournaments for the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II.
(Pen, blue wash on white paper, Galleria degli Uffizi)
By Giuseppe Arcimboldo who died #onthisday in 1593.
If you enjoy #CelticMusic - #FolkMusic - energetic #Fiddle and just an overall good times and you don’t already know Cape Breton Island’s Beaton sisters, have I got a treat for you. My Celtic Music playlist (one of 19 on my YouTube channel) has well over 300 songs and this particular live performance is one of my all time favorites. There’s a long and heart warming story behind Cape Breton fiddle playing, but that is grist for another post on another day. For now, just listen to this! https://youtu.be/xCSk5waVkxI
The Devil Went Down To Georgia - Primus - 2009 (cover of the Charlie Daniels Band original - 1979) (www.youtube.com)
The devil went down to Georgia, he was lookin' for a soul to steal...
Obsessed with the sound of the fiddle in this track (Liz Carroll - Castle Kelly / Galway Rambler) (www.youtube.com)