FIDDLE WORKSHOP
Adv.Beginner
Old-Time Fiddle Tunes
February 17, 2007
Dear Fellow Fiddlers: I hope you had a great holiday season. Happy New Year. It’s fiddle workshop time again and I have asked Beth Mosko to come up and continue the series for the adv .beginner workshop we started in September.2006. It was so much fun…the group that came were delighted with the workshop and we all learned a lot. Beth has agreed to do another great workshop for the advanced beginning fiddler. Beth is a talented teacher; her warmth, easy-going nature and knowledge of the fiddle are evident right away. You will be learning from a premier fiddle teacher who will inspire you. This 3 ½ hour workshop for adv .beginners will be at the home of the Gravlins in Bonsall…Fiddle Central!
Date: Saturday, February 17, 2007
Time: 11:00 AM – 3:30PM, we will break for lunch between 12:00-1:00PM for the famous Fiddle Central Salad Buffet.
Fee: $35.00; checks made out to Beth Mosko. Mail to: Diane Gravlin, Fiddle Central, PO Box 69, Bonsall, Ca. 92003 to secure your place in this workshop. You must register for this class as space is limited. Please include your home address, email address and phone number along with your name. Send this information in with your check. Checks will be taken at the door as well but you must register to secure a place. Thanks.
Please email Diane with questions and to pre-register: r.gravlin@worldnet.att.net. Calls can be directed to Diane at: 760-724-6331. . Looking forward to meeting you again and playing fiddle with you. Welcome fiddlers!! Nothing “beats” out a fiddle for a fun time!! Come learn about Old-Time fiddle styles and tunes.
Workshop Format:
San Diego fiddler Beth Mosko will be leading this workshop. We will continue with fiddle technique and some old-time tunes. Right arm application with bow hand and bow arm. Left hand application for intonation, double stops, slurs and slides. This will help the beginning old-time fiddler to start applying the necessary techniques for that” Old-Time feeling” with their tunes. We will continue to practice shuffle bowing and use it with a tune or two.. Effective practice will be reviewed through standard old-time fiddle tunes taught “by ear”. Several tunes will be taught using the above applications. Tips for playing in jam sessions will be discussed, as well as requested topics. Please bring questions with you ..we all learn from them!! This workshop is geared toward adv.beg.- fiddlers. Beginning fiddlers are also welcomed to come and join us…you may audit the workshop or sit in…the fee would be the same as for Adv. Beginning fiddlers.
Beth Mosko is a classically trained violinist and has performed with numerous orchestras and quartets in Northern Colorado, Wyoming and Western Nebraska. She experienced a musical conversion to old-time, bluegrass and other similar acoustic genres in 2000 while performing with folk artists and the nationally touring jamgrass band, Victor Barnes. While living in Iowa City, IA, she studied old-time fiddle with acclaimed musician and folk music historian Al Murphy, and was hooked from that point on.
Since moving to San Diego in 2003, Beth has performed and recorded with local bands: Gone Tomorrow, North Forty, 7th Day Buskers, Second Delivery and Last Transit. Beth enjoys teaching fiddle and classical violin out of her studio in San Diego and has been an inspiration for all levels of students for the past nine years. Visit her at the Last Transit website: www.lasttransit.
