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"Cripple Creek" is an Appalachian-style old time tune and folk song, often played on the fiddle or banjo, listed as number 3434 in the Roud Folk Song Index. The lyrics are probably no older than the year 1900, and the tune is of unknown origin.
Bill Keith (banjo) and Kenny Kosek (fiddle) were among the first to participate. [4] Homespun's first instructional lessons were recorded in Traum's home and sold on five-inch reel-to-reel tapes, as cassettes were not yet generally available. [5] The tapes were manually reproduced one by one at home: thus the name "Homespun." [3]
Bill Hensley, Mountain Fiddler, Asheville, North Carolina. Old time (also spelled old-time or oldtime) fiddle is the style of American fiddling found in old-time music.Old time fiddle tunes are derived from European folk dance forms such as the jig, reel, breakdown, schottische, waltz, two-step, and polka.
Kenny Kosek (born 1949 in The Bronx, New York), is an American fiddler who plays bluegrass, country, klezmer, folk music and roots music.In addition to his solo career, he has performed with many other well-known performers and contributed to film and television soundtrack music.
He began taking fiddle lessons at age ten from his maternal uncle, Kinnon Beaton, a renowned Cape Breton fiddler and prolific composer. Graham's grandfather, Donald Angus Beaton , was a legendary fiddler/composer, and his grandmother, Elizabeth Beaton, was a well-known pianist.
Fiddle players tend to play fiddle "tunes" rather than sonatas and other classical types of compositions. There are exceptions. For instance, partitas have been popular with fiddle players, particularly since publication of the Open House CD by Kevin Burke, an Irish style player based in Portland, Oregon. Fiddles are typically associated with ...
[3] [4] Discussing its impact, the Shelburne Free Press wrote "in a small community like Shelburne, everyone is affected to some degree by the Fiddle Contest, because so many of the town’s residents dedicate their time and efforts towards the event’s success...by 1951, the fiddle and fiddle music were traditions of Dufferin community life." [3]
Bluegrass fiddlers combine from many genres and tend to be highly skilled with strong roots in fiddle rather than violinistic traditions. As such, they can be seen to disregard the rules that violinists follow: they hold the fiddle the "wrong" way and don't necessarily use the chin rests, shoulder rests. [ 10 ]