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you are a
musician or
dancer, however modest or well established, and you have gigs
or
other music related items of interest that you want posted here: please
email
me the info! Most of the info that you see on all these pages
here
gets to me from you all! Examples: open jams, your gigs, new local CDs,
dances, music or dance workshops and
so on. -m
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Some
local music trivia and a Centennial ...
The Ithaca Journal is
covering the 100 year anniversary of the Ithaca High School Orchestra.
They have put together a nice web area to honor the event -- [
article here ] and in today's (May 25)
paper.
My maternal (Finnish) Grandmother (Ina Knuutila Harper)
played
violin in the  1930 orchestra .. I play that exact same
instrument now as a
beginning folk fiddler. My mother (Roberta) played flute in the 1955
orchestra. My grandfather ("Moe" Harper) headed up the
local Musicians Union in the 1960's .. he played
Jazz clarinet and saxophone around town. - Mike
Some local and imported tunes from Ben
Smith ...
I just wanted to let everyone know about my endeavor to share fiddle
tunes on the web! I know there are many sites that already have large
collections of tunes available for free (tunedb.com for example) but
there is no harm adding more.
My tunes are at www.benjamindaysmith.com
and then click on "Tunes" near the top of the page.
There are several dozen tunes that are commonly played in this area in
addition to a bunch I learned in Ireland. Also I have made
transcriptions of the playing of the fine Ct. Clare Fiddler Tola Custy
and the legendary Sean McGuire. I am adding more all the time (a few
every week).
And unlike other sites all my tunes are in PDF format so any one can
download them and make high quality prints immediately!
I hope these are of some use - feel free to contact me with suggestions
or comments.
peace,
Ben Smith
<ben2002@lightlink.com>
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Folk
Music Software, Links, List-Serves ...
Email to Mike: "In 1987 I was a classical guitar student
at Kent State University. My friend Carol asked me if I wanted to
go to a Folk
Festival. I said, “Yeah sure, What's a Folk
Festival?”
We showed up, and two of the
acts were John McCutcheon and
the Horse Flies.
After a weekend of
taking workshops and incredible concerts, I was absolutely hooked on
this folk music. I sold my classical and electric guitars and
bought a steel string, and started writing songs, learning traditional
tunes and going to every concert I could find. It was the
beginning of my path in life. Going to Trumansburg tonight to
hear the Horse Flies play
again [Jan 10, 2005] was a big treat. Memory
lane of sorts. This town is damn cool. Thanks for sending
out your newsletters, they're serving as a great way
to get to know this town. See you soon. Joe Crookston"
[Mikes-Music] If you are reading this
you are probably on that one!
But if you are not and you think you
should be, send an email
to Mike ... It
is a private list-serve.
[FOF] Central
New York Friends of Folk
"The Central
New York Friends of Folk is nothing more than a loosely
knit community of people encouraging and supporting the presentation of
folk and acoustic music in this region."
The Friends of Folk Music in Central New York
(FOF-CNY) is an
unmoderated listserv-based
discussion group devoted to discussions on
folk music -- both traditional and contemporary. The listserve itself
was
set up to aid in discussions pertaining to the promotion
of folk music artists, venues, and event calendars.
[YFN] Your Friends and Neighbors This
is the list-serve for the open band that plays on the Commons in the
summer and varies other public events around town on occasion.
Administered by Ted Crane Go to TedCrane.Com and send Ted
an email (it takes a few clicks to find his email) ....
[CCZC]
Cayuga Cajun
Zydeco
Community This yahoo list
serve
includes postings for cajun/zydeco dance lessons and band announcemants
for that cajun and zydeco music.
Membership is open to
anyone -- go to the link and follow the instructions. They
had a spam problem awhile
back - you may need to get friend to put you on or the list
administrator... As long as you know someone who'e on it already - you
can get on... use me if you want! -m
"The Cayuga
Cajun Zydeco Community is a group of Cajun and Zydeco music and
dance
enthusiasts who help sponsor CZ music and dance events in Ithaca and
surrounding communities. We often collaborate with the Rochester Cajun
Zydeco Junkies (http://www.ggw.org/~rsdn/zydeco/) in bringing national
and regional talent to the area."
Folk Music via the web...
Strad's
Secrets Revealed?
From STRINGS magazine:
The ancient mystery of the rich  resonance heard in Stradivari
violins may have been solved. The secret? An extended period of long
winters and cool summers—known as the "Little Ice Age"—led to extremely
dense wood with special acoustic properties, according to a pair of
scientists.
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The
Back Porch News
News Letter
and Website
The Back Porch news was created to provide timely, and
we hope interesting news for the folk music community.
It is the creation of Ken McKinney a long time folk
music fan and board member of the Cornell
Folk Song Society in Ithaca NY.
If you have news to share we’d be delighted to hear
from you. Use the contact
form to get in touch.
We
attempt to present news, happy or sad which is of interest to the whole
folk music community, new venu openings closings, anniversaries,
awards, births, deaths, publications and so on. Clarity and brevity are
appreciated. The less it sounds like it came from a corporate marcom
department the better.
This is not the place to publicize your
venue or gig schedule. Our audience is too wide spread geographically
for it to be useful to many of them. There are already lots of channels
to get that information out in any case.
Amazing Slow Downer ...
Roni
Music is a software company
with an emphasis on powerful
music software. All software are extremely small in size, making them
suitable for distributing via the Internet. The main product is the Amazing Slow Downer software, intended
for musicians wanting to slow down music without changing the pitch.
Amazing Slow Downer is available for Mac and Windows
computers.
This is from The
Unabridged Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose
Pierce, a
self declared promoter of the terrible honest truth ...
"The fiddle is
an instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the
entrails of a cat."
-- contributed by Laurie Roe :)
abc Links, Tune links ...
A couple new links: from Melanie K:
http://www.cpmusic.com/tradmus.html
http://fingertrip.net
Melody
Assistant
is a shareware program for writing and composing music, with a friendly
interface and many powerful features. This is the software I have been
using for transposing and reading *.abc format music files.
The
abc Home
Page
"abc" is a language designed to notate tunes in an ascii format. It was
designed primarily for folk and traditional tunes of Western European
origin (such as English,
Irish and Scottish) which can be written on one stave in standard
classical notation. However, it is extendible to many other types of
music.
Tunes at Ceolas
Ceolas carries notation for several hundred traditional tunes, in
various formats, along with music software and an index of most
published tune sources and links to
other sites with tunes and songs.
The
web-wide abc index The web-wide abc index contains 21427 titles
for 19244 tunes.
Guitar Tuner Version 1.0 Great
for Laptops! Windows 95/98/NT Audio Phonics Guitar Tuner is the fastest
and most accurate guitar tuner available. Using proprietary pitch
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identify the correct octave. The recognition technology also adapts to
the speed of the processor for the smoothest tracking of any
tuner. The program is easy to use, good looking and best of all
it's free.
Hetzler's
Fakebook of traditional fiddle music. An online
collection of 366 tunes in MIDI format plus selected sheet
music. "Old Time" tunes are
listed alphabetically by key. Celtic tunes are listed by type (i.e.,
reels, strathspeys, jigs, etc.). Sheet music is listed alphabetically.
This site recommended by Laura: "I love this link.
The number of tunes in GIF/PDF and!!! MIDI is incredible. It is
terrific to be able to hear some of these songs,
particularly some of those we've never played. Wish they had chords,
but aw heck, I guess I'll have to learn to figure
them out on my own... Pretty cool to hear how “boys” and “boatin’ sound
here! (check out the “sheet music” link)
I'm sending a donation!" --Laura
The Cornell Folk Song Club was founded in
the late 1950s to encourage
and preserve traditional and traditionally-oriented folk music through
group sings, concerts and workshops on and off campus.
Dirty Linen Folk Music
Magazine ....
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