Help: Fiddlers ACT OZ

Subject: Fiddlers ACT OZ
From: GUEST,Marcus Campus Bellorum
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 08:11 PM

Hi all,

A big Ask?

. . .any Mudcat fiddlers [who have a good ear for harmony singing] (in Canberra Australia) with lots of time, ideas, and a hankering for odd time signatures, cello, acoustic guitar, didgeridoo and old/new world percussion?

If so, we have a job for you.

Subject: RE: Help: Fiddlers ACT OZ
From: Chicky
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 08:16 PM

... now, I wonder who THAT could be? Only one band I can think of who play in 7/8 AND have a didge and a furry drum!

Cheers
- Chicky

Subject: RE: Help: Fiddlers ACT OZ
From: GUEST,Mark
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 08:25 PM

Chicky you're right.

Tursacan it is.

Any leads.

Subject: RE: Help: Fiddlers ACT OZ
From: Callie
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 08:53 PM

I have a friend who is a fine five-string violin player. She lives in Picton (near Camden). While it might be too far for her to travel to play with you, she may know fiddling folk in your neck of the woods.

I don't know how to send you a Personal Message as you're a 'guest' - but if you send me one, I could respond with my friend's details.

You could also try asking Bill (with the DEEEEEP voice and whose surname eludes me) - he seems to know everyone folky in Canberra.

Callie

Subject: RE: Help: Fiddlers ACT OZ
From: GUEST,Mark
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 09:20 PM

Hi Callie.

Thanks for the assistance.

I am a guest because I dislike cookies and remove these crustaceans at regular intervals. I removed the mudcat one along with all the others thinking that I could easily rejoin mudcat. But this is not the case.

So Guest it is. I am working on it. But I do think all those anti guest people are a bit "full on".

There are practical disadvantages to not being a member. And personally contacting you is one of them.

If you email Bob Bolton he will email you my email address. And we can go from there.

So for the guestinconvenience.

Thanks

Mark OZ

Subject: RE: Help: Fiddlers ACT OZ
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 11:40 PM

Excuse the thread creep, Guest Marcus (I can't PM you) but wondered if you know a whistle player in Canberra named John Garden. He lived in the San Francisco area for several years and was a regular at a Monday night Irish session and dance, before moving back to Canberra. He introduced me to tapes of bush band and colonial dance music. Nice guy, and decent whistle player.

-chanteyranger

Subject: RE: Help: Fiddlers ACT OZ
From: Marcus Campus Bellorum
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 11:48 PM

Hi Chanteyranger,

I am a newbie to Canberra. And know only a few local musicians at present. This is not helped by hermit like characteristics.

Anyway...

Our cellist knows many many in the local muso scene. He plays in a group called "Garden of Earthly Delights" and I think John Garden is the mainstay of the group.

I will ask our cellist to ask John about chanteyranger from San Franciscos Irish sessions.

Small world cliche cliche.

Subject: RE: Help: Fiddlers ACT OZ
From: Marcus Campus Bellorum
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 11:52 PM

Callie:

I am now a member again.

How do you send personal messages?

Subject: RE: Help: Fiddlers ACT OZ
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 23 Aug 00 - 12:20 AM

Welcome back to membership. I just sent you a personal message. You'll see at the top of the forum that you have an actice message (or more than one). Just click on that, and then click on the message title. To send a message, go to the top of the forum, where it say's "personal pages" and click on that, then click on "send a message." It will then prompt you to type in the name of the person you want to send a message to, and then click on the name when it's highlighted in blue.

-chanteyranger

Subject: RE: Help: Fiddlers ACT OZ
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 23 Aug 00 - 12:25 AM

G'day Member Marcus,

You go to the head of the page and find "Personal Pages" in the Mudcat header. Click here and the rest is self explanatory.

If you want to tap into Canberra fiddlers, try Graham McDonald's site (which was called "Graham's Folk Things" but seems to have changed to (McDonald?) Stringed Instruments. Anyway it is on the same ISP as the National Festival and his is "[e-mail] ... indeed he is the new coordinator of the National Festival, but he has for the past several years organised "The Australian Fiddle Orchestra" (a loose collection of everyone with a fiddle at the National), to do a performance at the end of each festival.

Graham also has an interest in new material (he brought out a collection of newly written tunes in "folk" styles a few years back) and would have views of available musicians from all his perspectives - as musician, festival coordinator, group arranger and luthier (luths - not fiddles).

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: Help: Fiddlers ACT OZ
From: Callie
Date: 23 Aug 00 - 02:29 AM

Mark: check your PMs