Fiddler - November 2017

Winter 2017/18 issue features include Anna Roberts-Gevalt: Telling Stories; My Time with Joe Venuti: Anything but Standard; Teaching and Learning Gypsy Jazz: The State of the Art; Getting Started with Gypsy Jazz; Deanie Richardson: On World Tours and the Teacher's Chair; "Plenty of fiddlers and hound dogs": Anecdotes of Pioneer Dances in the Far West; The Fiddling Batchelders of Frankfort, Maine; Lonnie Robertson: Radio Fiddler, Part Three. Regular columns include On Improvisation: Some Thoughts on Backing Up Vocalists; Waltzes & Airs; The Practicing Fiddler: A Contest Round for Beginners; Scottish Fiddling: Diddly-Dee Music; Jody's Column: Tommy Magness; Fiddle Tune History: Lord MacDonald's Descendants: Québec; The Hidden Note: Favorite Misunderstood Tune Titles; Bluegrass Fiddling: Bluegrass Fiddle Backup; The Intrepid Fiddler; Reviews…. 18 tunes: "Thanksgiving Waltz," by Jay Ungar; "Berwick Stomp," as played by Jason Anick; "Alvah Batchelder's"; "Batchelder's Reel"; "Frisky Jim," as played by Lonnie Robertson; "Dance Around Molly," as played by Tommy Magness; "Coming Down from Denver"; "Ookpik Waltz"; "Stone's Rag"; "Miss Hannah of Elgin," by William Marshall; "The Famous Baravan," by Gordon Duncan; "The Long Water," by Sandy Brechin; "The Walls of Liscarroll"; "Virginia Reel, Part 1," as played by Arthur-Joseph "A.J." Boulay; "MacDonald's Reel," as played by Louis Boudreault; "Lord MacDonald's Reel," as played by Erskine Morris; "Girl in the Blue Velvet Band," backup as played by Chubby Wise; "Speranze Perdute."