The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #23849 Message #267871
Posted By: CarolC
30-Jul-00 - 11:00 AM
Thread Name: What (do we play)?
Subject: RE: What .....?!?
When I was in high school (ahem...a long long time ago), I played the recorder. My friends and I all played nothing but rennaisance and early baroque music. After high school, it got hard to find anyone to play that kind of music with, so I stopped playing for many years. Three years ago I moved to a folk music and dance town (Shepherdstown, West Virginia). I didn't know anybody so, to meet people, I looked for the nearest jam session. I became a regular and started playing all kinds of folk and traditional music on the recorder. Then one day Paul Oorts showed up with his accordion. I fell totally in love with the instrument and resolved to make it my own. My neighbor and good friend, Don, saw a man selling stuff from the back of a van by the side of the road. The man had a micro-wave oven and an accordion. Don told the man that if he would give him a really good price on the micro-wave, Don would take the accordion off his hands for free. (Most of that story is true.) Now, I play all kinds of traditional and folk music on the accordion and on the recorder, but what I REALLY want to learn to play is old world or European folk music and circus music. Thanks for this opportunity, Moonchild