Dancing with the best

The fabulous Nils Fredland led our afternoon of dancing at Woodlawn CDC.  The band had double-fiddles, guitar and bass, and we started the dance afternoon out with an impromptu jam session between student fiddlers and the dance band.  It was great to have families join in from the immediate neighborhood as well as from all different parts of the greater Providence area.  

Our next event is a pre-dance fiddling performance at Magnolia's Saturday, April 6th Cajun Dance at the German Hall: 78 Carter Ave, Pawtucket, RI.  7:30pm.

Banjo time

First, it was postponed due to Hurricane Sandy, then again due to the big snow storm -- but finally, we had our Banjo Night at RI Fiddle Project!

And our guest didn't just bring banjos.  The highlight of the night was his own creation: a fiddle made out of a wooden box and a hockey stick!  Everyone got to try playing it.  Wondering what a box fiddle sounds like?  Check it out:

Catching up: Fiddling Celebration!

Here are some great moments from January's Mid-Year Fiddling Celebration.  Thanks to photographer Jeremiah Whiteside for capturing this!

The fun one

And something slightly more serious

Youth Arts @ Pawtucket's Wintertime Farmer's Market

It was that time of year again: Youth Arts Night at Pawtucket's Wintertime Farmer's Market at Hope Artiste Village.  3 of our students performed (2 are pictured here) last Wednesday night, and we were even lucky enough to join forces for a few tunes with Blue Around the Edges who were also playing at   that night's farmer's market!

update + Thursday's Fiddling Celebration!

 

We're getting there on the A part of this tune, just 7 notes/donations left to complete here!  Here's what update #3 looks like.

And hope you can join us for our mid-year Fiddling Celebration on Thursday, January 17th.  
From 5-6 PM, students will be performing their favorite tunes that they've been working on this year.  We'll also get to share group tune that we learned first from fiddler-extraordinaire April Verch back in September.  There will be food after the performances, so please stop by and join us.

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Woodlawn CDC, 210 West Ave, Pawtucket
5 PM, Thursday, January 17th

First line done! (update #2)

 

In these last few days of the year, you can help us finish this next line of Hop, Skip & Jump.  Thanks for all of the support thus far, and Happy New Year!!

Giving progress: first update

We're 13 notes (donations) into the A part of our tune: Hop, Skip & Jump!  Thanks so much to everyone who's given so far.   Our goal is to finish the first half of the tune (with note 36) by the last day of 2012.  If you know someone who might be interested in helping RI Fiddle Project, thanks in advance for helping us spread the word!