I rather like the idea of looking at the Scottish roots of old-time music and how that influenced Monroe. This year at our Cygnet Folk Festival one the highlights was a young Scott Fiddler and his mate who plays accordian.
Ronan Martin and Sandy Brechin Ronan is from the Isle of Skye and is much in demand as a traditional fiddle player, both at home and abroad. He was steeped in music from an early age and has performed with many of Scotland's finest bands and high calibre musicians such Sandy Brechin, who grew up in Kirkliston, West Lothian and has been playing the accordion for twenty years. He has developed his own unique approach to the art of accordion playing and his innovative style is instantly recognisable. He is Scotland's most renowned accordionist, touring internationally with many bands, he has his own independent recording label, 'Brechin All Records'. They played an excellent range of dance music, including some impressive 6/8 marches, very well done. They work well as a team, Ronan the straight man and Sandy making all the jokes, introducing the tunes. Maybe some of you folks have heard of one or both of these fellas. I would love to be able to hear a tune played in the Scott style by a fiddler the caliber of Ronan, (he seems to have a vast knowledge of the subject) and the patter re the history, etc of the tune by someone like Sandy, then a similar tune in the style of old-time Ky Fiddlers, by someone who can do it justice, then maybe something where the blues came into things, then in the Monroe style, how in some detail he worked his mandolin effort according to fiddle style, now that to me would be a fantastic experience. Don't know if this is any use to your project, Tater <G> Love the idea of black mandolin culture. Then there is that pentatonic scale, and bluegrass, and international bluegrass players from exotic places like India...<G> .. Linda On Jan 20, 4:19 pm, "David Long" <[email protected]> wrote: > sorry... too=two. sorry. i suck at spelling. > > david > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:17 PM, David Long <[email protected]> wrote: > > It would be great to have Caleb Klauder there. To my ears, he hits all the > > buttons, so to speak. And though it may be a long shot, Luke Plumb might > > offer a wonderful sense of some Scotch-Irish styles, and I think it would > > show the true cross-continental evolution of this music right before our > > eyes and ears. These are too young and very formidable practitioners that > > are a bit over looked in our fair circle. I hope this is to be considered. > > Carl Jackson also crossed my mind as well. And if I may say, there is is > > no one more suited to run this process than Mike Compton. > > Best to all, > > David > > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:49 PM, mistertaterbug > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > >> I agreed today to take the administrative (uhm...or was that advisory) > >> duties for the International Bluegrass Music Museum's Bill Monroe > >> Mandolin Camp 2009. I understand that Mike Lawing doesn't work at the > >> museum anymore, so that leaves a gap. From what I can gather thus far, > >> the camp will basically be similar in format to the last few. It will > >> be on/around Monroe's birthday and will be Friday/Saturday/Sunday. > >> There will be at least 5 instructors and the topics will be somewhat > >> similar, but I am looking at other aspects of KY style bluegrass > >> mandolin that have not been touched on so much before. > > >> I know some of you on this here list have been to the camp, whilst > >> others have not. What I would like for you to do, beings we have this > >> forum, is to think about what it was you didn't get last time that > >> would have been welcome knowledge. What aspects of Bill's music did > >> not get looked at, either at all or adequately? Is there something > >> slipping through the cracks that I'm just not thinking of? What have I > >> left out? Are there artists currently working that have not worked as > >> instructors at the camp before that either loosely base some of their > >> work on Monroe's mandolin style or whom you'd like to see tackle KY > >> style mandolin with a more contemporary flair? The camp is, of course, > >> devoted to furthering and explaining Monroe's work and music, so I'm > >> not saying we need to get too far out on a limb. I am also looking at > >> possibly having the "before bluegrass" idea actively pursued, as well > >> as the black mandolin culture. Maybe we should go to Arnold Schultz' > >> gravesite. > > >> Anyway, I would welcome any suggestions/requests/complaints that may > >> be floating around. I think there needs to be some other activities to > >> do besides classes too, but right now at this early stage in the game, > >> I'm drawing a blank. Now's the time to have your say. > > >> Tater --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
