Fiddlers' church service

Subject: Fiddlers' church service
From: Marion
Date: 09 Sep 01 - 07:35 PM

Well, those Presbyterians of Macdonald's Corners, Ontario sure know how to get ME back in church.

This morning I went to something called a Fiddlers' Service. There were three fiddlers who played together for a half hour before the service, and a quarter hour after, and each did a solo set in the middle of the service as well. Real old time dance tunes, too, not hymns. It was fun.

I learned that this was only a second annual thing at that church, not an old custom... is it an old custom where you're from?

Marion

Subject: RE: Fiddlers' church service
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Sep 01 - 11:43 PM

Hardi often fiddles dance tunes as preludes to the Saturday Night Service, and we did an item as a trio (fiddle, cello, autoharp) one Sunday AM as a prelude as well. He also fiddles as part of our group for the rest of the hymns as well. I think he'd love to do a fiddle offertory as well, expcet he is ALSO the clergyman preparing the alttar while WE do the offertory!

Whiskey Before Breakfast makes a damn fine prelude, as do Manage the Miser, Old Joe Clark... Hardiman could tell you more. The Morpeth Rant seemed especially funny coming from the preacher.... Now he is working on The Growling Old Man and the Old Woman, he says.

~Susan