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in May:
As May arrived and the Berklee College semester ended, I'm saying "farewell" to a lot of great young players who are graduating. It's a fantastic fiddle scene out here in the Boston Area, as great young players come in, move to Nashville, move back here again, try Brooklyn, then Nashville... then Denver, and back to Boston... But the Artistworks Fiddle School continues 24/7/365: We are all constantly learning more about music all the time!
In the West...
I just completed a very fun tour of the Pacific Northwest with singer-songriter Emy Phelps, and managed to do some well-received workshops during that trip as well. I also had the chance to sit in with some good friends and a sort of musical hero: Sean Watkins, Tristan Clarridge (interviewed on my Artistworks site!) and the extremely cool & wonderful Bill Frisell…in Seattle, of course. We played a bunch of bluegrass fiddle tunes…weird for Bill, great for me, Tristan, and Sean.
I finished a couple of composition commissions, one for violinist Regina Carter & cellist Patrice Jackson, and one for the incredible Rachel Barton Pine! I wrote a nice slightly funky gospel-ish tune for the two Soulful String Sisters. The piece for Rachel is one movement of her great idea: The New American Partitas for Solo Violin. I think she's commissioning a hoedown, a waltz, and a rag. I got the rag.
...and I'm excited about my next giant batch of lessons, recorded at ArtistWorks Central, early in June!: Lots of expansion and detail clarifying existing lessons, brand-new tunes, a new Bluegrass series of Iconic Breaks that I've been threatening to do for years, and some Gypsy Jazz lessons... wow. It's a pile.
Emy Phelps and I have a new recording...Buy this here!
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