Hello all you knowledgeable folks. Those of you, who know me, know that one of the things I do is play the fife in Connecticut. Years ago, I was talking to someone at a festival, (I don't remember who, or where), about fifing in New England, and they mentioned a Fife and Fiddle tradition in the Ozark's. Has anyone here any knowledge or recollection of this tradition? Or anything similar? I'm familiar with Samuel Bayard's book Dance to the Fiddle March to the Fife, in which he speaks of fifing and fiddle traditions in western Pennsylvania. Bayard speaks of both fifers and fiddlers playing for dances, however I don't feel he talks of them playing together. As a matter of fact, I get the impression they didn't play at the same events in Penn. He definitely says fifers playing dances are a thing of the past, which comes as no surprise to me. Has anyone here heard of an American Fife and Fiddle tradition? I've been playing marches all my life, and I'm perfectly aware that before push button music all manner of dance band traditions existed. I'm specifically interested in fifers and fiddlers playing with each other, and not in parades.

Tanx