This morning around 10:00 Noma Sweet passed away. Norma was know as Granny Sweet. She was a fiddler and a teacher of fiddle to countless children and grownups in Central New York. Norma taught fiddle in the Hannibal NY library every thursday night for more years than I can recall. As much a lesson as a Jam, everyone got to play. And she was a wealth of tune knowledge that will be missed. As I recall she loved to play swing fiddle. She called them old pop tunes but they were the piano bench sings that people sat about and played and sang from when she was a child. An Old Timey style from a more elegant age.

Norma wasn't widely known beyond our area but her students are and will be.