It’s a Christmas Eve Spectacular on another Tuesday Tunes with Don. We give away the tickets to Possum’s Big Fiddle Show on Ice. Don tells about the time he got his car stolen. Then we play several of the good old good’uns including: Blue Mule, Old Time Johnny Don’t Come Home Drunk, Get Aboard the Ship, Fireman’s Dance Cotillion and “The Mystery Tune”. Recorded December 24, 2019 in Chicago-Land. Be sure to call the hotline and leave us a message (847)920-7587. You might be on the next episode of Possum’s Big Fiddle Show!

Playing some tunes with my Buddy Don on the usual Tuesdays. We get deep into Calhoun Swing (from Melvin Wine), Constitution Hornpipe (Cole’s 1000), Year of Jubilo, Indians Over The Hill, Walk Old Shoe-Heel Come A-Draggin’ and Run Down Boot. Recorded December 17, 2019 in Chicago-Land. Be sure to call the hotline and leave us a message (847)920-7587. You might be on the next episode of Possum’s Big Fiddle Show!

Wow! Our recent excursion to Scotland and the Shetland Islands in October did not disappoint. You can read my first post HERE. The next few posts and podcasts will be devoted to describing this amazing journey. This article is all about getting there. For folks who aren’t seasoned travelers it can be a bit daunting with all the different bookings and modes of transit. The trip required taxis, planes, trams, trains, ferries, and buses.

In this podcast I’ll describe in detail all it took to get from Chicago, IL, USA to Lerwick in Shetland. BTW, never say “Shetlands”. It’s either Shetland or the Shetland Islands. As it was put to me, “Would you say the Hawaiis?” In a future podcast I’ll tell you all about the Shetland Accordion and Fiddle Festival.

 

 

This episode is all about the Shetland Islands and our upcoming trip to the Shetland Accordion and Fiddle Festival. Be sure to read the accompanying blog post HERE.

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Possum is joined by his sidekick Wichita. We play a few tunes, most notably the Belvidere Hornpipe. We also discuss our recent trip to Clifftop, try to annoy “Butters the Cat”, Un-box a package that arrives from Amazon during the broadcast, listen to some calls from the hotline and finish off with an old quadrille.

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In this exciting episode your host plays more 78s from the “Square Dance Box”. This is a heavy metal case of square dance records from the 1950s that Patt’s mother picked up at a thrift shop in Sarasota some years back. There a passle of 78 rpm records in it plus notes and set lists used by a real working Western-Style square dance caller. Quite a find. I’ll also play you a little bit of the Solomon family and a cut from a  new CD by Calvin Vollrath’s I picked up at Pembroke last year.

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BTW, our good friends Heidi and Chris Germain were in town last weekend from Philly. We had a nice visit and even threw a little music party Saturday night. So here’s a special shoutout to them.

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Welcome to another exciting episode of Possum’s Big Fiddle Show. Know you’re gonna love it! Today on the program we pull from a big metal box of square dance 78s and take whatever wierdness happens as it comes. Big Fun!!

Hey! It’s another exciting episode of Possum’s Big Fiddle Show: Happy Wheatland Edition. The Possum is nestled in by the piney woods in the performer’s campground with Patt Plunkett on piano, Mike “Wichita Slim” Miller on guitar and our special guest Chris Germain on fiddle.

We play the old favorites:

0.06 Johnny Don’t Come Home Drunk

2:19 Red Fox Waltz

5:04 The Irish Washerwoman

9:40 Pike’s Peak

27:10 St. Anne’s Reel

at 12:45 enjoy the walk around of the Central Rockies Old Time Music Association Festival campground near Berthoud, CO.

People said it couldn’t be done – like the moon landing (which actually was done on a hurriedly assembled movie set in El Segundo – but that’s a topic for another podcast). Still, here they are – Get Up in the Cool’s Cameron DeWhitt and Possum’s Big Fiddle Show’s Charlie Walden squaring of before your very eyes and/or ears.

This is the crossover podcast extravaganza of the millenium. There’s patter on everything from beer to Garth Brooks to Bluegrass and back to beer, too! Recorded right on the spot at the 2018 Brandywine Revival Festival on June 16, 2018.

We cut down on some banjo & fiddle duets, too. You’ll hear an Ozarks hoe-down Humansville, Kenny Baker’s Brandywine, Pete McMahan’s versions of Talk to Dinah & Virginia Darlin’, a Canadian import (duty-free!) Whiskey Before Breakfast and lastly Buddy Thomas’ Turkey in the Pea Patch.

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The Wiley Ol’ Possum visits the Charleston, WV, and attends the annual Vandalia Gathering at the State Capitol. The podcast opens with a visit to the Empty Glass to hear the Big Possum String Band and then it’s on to the Capitol grounds for the fiddle and banjo contests. And no episode would be compete without a call from the hotline. Don’t forget to call the hotline at (847) 920-7587 and let us know what you think.

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