Possum's Big Fiddle Show

It's another edition of Tuesday Tunes with Don, this time on Friday. Who could have guessed it. Recorded live and simulcast on both Twitch and YouTube at 11:00 AM on February 14, 2020. Valentine's Day for you lovers out there. Don plays some great tunes in this episode and we launch the WORLD PREMIERE of a new tune - The Illinois Bicentennial Schottische. Get the music by emailing [email protected]. We take two crazy calls from the hotline - WHOA NELLIE!!

Woah there hoss! It's another Episode of Possum's Big Fiddle Show @NITE! What to we do on PBFS@NITE! you may ask. Well pard', we play along with the greatest fiddlers of all time on YouTube and you can play right along. Tonite we're sawin' along with Ontario fiddle legend Ward Allen. Tonight it's Maple Leaf Two-Step, Blue Pacific Hornpipe, Fiddler's Dream, Marie Ann Reel, The Old Box Stove, Snowflake Reel, and finally the beautiful Peek-A-Boo Waltz. Get your fiddle out and join in!

Hey everybody it's Possum's Big Fiddle Show @NITE! We play along with the greatest fiddlers of all time on YouTube and you can, too! Tonight it's Tommy Jackson. The Wiley Ol' Possum plays Liberty, Ragtime Annie, The Girl I Left Behind Me, Chinese Breakdown and many more!

It’s BigFiddleShow@NITE! for February 11, 2020. We played from a list of six Andy DeJarlis tune tongiht: Romeo’s First Change, Andy’s Centennial Two-Step, Golden Boy Two-Step, Backwoodsman’s Reel, Jimmy’s Jig and The Lucky Trapper Reel. Join in the fun next time and get your fiddle out and play along. Did you know you can also watch Possum’s Big Fiddle Show @NITE! on Twitch. Just go to twitch.tv/bigfiddleshow.

Don’s in Florida getting his tan on, but he joins us by phone. I play along to the new Spencer & Rains CD so that you can only hear me. We try out the new theme song and preview next week’s show.

In this episode we ring up our old pal Geoff Seitz and catch him working at his shop. Don plays Ora Lee & Rachel. The all heck breaks loose – we lose our internet connection and the show goes dead air. So enjoy this somewhat abbreviated version of Possum’s Big Fiddle Show!

 

What an action packed episode! We play calls from the Hotline and some were down-right weird. We play a bunch of tunes and even premiere a brand new tune written especially for this episode. @BigFiddleShow.

I’m back with my sidekick Don playing tunes and cracking wise. In this episode we take more bizarro calls from the Hotline and play tunes like “The Battle of Brewersville, “Old French” and “Old-Time Billy in the Lowground”. Plus there’s a new Mystery Tune! Join in the fun by calling 847-920-7587.

This past October 10 to 14, 2019, marked the 32nd annual Shetland Accordion and Fiddle Festival (SAFF) held in the Shetland Islands. In my last post I told you how to get to Shetland from America. This is part one  about our experience at the festival and focuses on the festival club and the various venues around the islands. For a quick overview refer to the festival program HERE. More information is available at the festival website https://www.shetlandaccordionandfiddle.com/.

I play you some tunes on the electric fiddle, too: a tune from Missouri called 50 Years Ago Waltz, a Shetland tune by Ronnie Cooper called Miss Susan Cooper and the Canadian Jig composed by Ned Landry called Ripple Rock Jig.

The next podcast and post will tell you all about the Festival Club sessions, the Grand Dance at the Clickimin Center and the Garrison Theatre Concerts.

If after reading all this and listening to the podcasts you’d like to attend the 2020 Shetland Accordion and Fiddle Festival your first step is to mark your calendar for October 8 to 12, 2020. You can get updates at www.shetlandaccordionandfiddle.com. It also happens that there is another festival in Orkney, which starts on the Tuesday after the Shetland fest called The Reel Orkney Trad Fest, which will run from October 12 to 17, 2020. So you could get a two-fer. I’ll post info for that fest at a  later time as more becomes available.

 

 

 

 

It’s another Tuesday Tunes with Don live from Chicago, IL. This week we take a very interesting call on the Hotline from a Mr. Gilbert Gnarley. Don performs a science experiment on an egg and we play a bunch of good tunes. We’re using an entirely new audio set-up with mixer and stereo microphone. Hope you like the improvement in sound quality.

The tunes include: Peg Leg, Five-Finger Joe, Zack Wheat’s Piece, Duck’s Eyeball, Old Moze and Rolling the Log.