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Fiddle, Oldtime, Levels 2/3

Instructor(s): Greg Canote

Make It Sound Like Fiddling

Through the medium of some beautiful old tunes, we will explore how to get that Old Time sound!  Drones, double stops, and left-hand doo-dads will be paired up with their counterparts in the bowing hand: slurs, dips, pulses, bow direction, and simple patterns! We’ll have some fun as we explode some of the arcane fiddle secrets!

The Canote Twins

Prerequisites:

If you know your major scales in the fiddle keys and can find the notes to a tune by listening and imitating what you hear, then you pretty much have the necessary skills!

About Greg Canote

Twin brothers Greg and Jere have spent most of their seventy plus years playing and singing together! Raised in California’s central valley and later the Bay Area, they remember tagging along with their parents to folk and square dances. They have played hundreds of dances over the years with caller and square dance icon Sandy Bradley and joined her for thirteen years as her affable sidekicks on NPR’s “Sandy Bradley’s Potluck”. They have taught and performed all over America at music festivals and instructional camps and have taught an ongoing stringband workshop in their hometown of Seattle for over forty years!

Filmmaker Larry Edelman has just released a full length documentary film “The Canote Twins” (Available for streaming at the canotetwins.com) and they continue to spread joy and musical fun wherever they go!