Bruce Greene--Appalachian Fiddle Workshop-FULL

THIS EVENT IS NOW RESERVED TO CAPACITYKY and NC Fiddle Workshop for Experienced FiddlersBruce Greene will offer a fiddle workshop Saturday afternoon at the Knox Presbyterian Church. He will teach a few tunes from the Kentucky and western North Carolina repertoires, paying special attention to bowing, phrasing, and other techniques that help to give the tune an "old" sound, probably some of it cross tuned. This is intended for experienced fiddlers, but he will do a range of moderate to difficult tunes. Less experienced fiddlers should be aware that some of the workshop may to more advanced than they are ready for. Experience with cross tuning would be helpful. Bring a recorder if you wish. There is a fee of $35 for the workshop.The workshops will be Saturday afternoon at Knox Presbyterian Church in Falls Church (where the evening concert will also be) from 1:30 to 4:30 in the afternoon. To reserve a place, contact Julia Friend (Monthly Programs Chair) at program (at) fsgw.org or call her at 917-685-9243. Because the workshop is full to capacity, any new registrants will have to wait for an attendee to cancel.Bruce Greene is known worldwide as one of the finest living exponents of old time Kentucky fiddle music. He is also a skilled old time banjo player, and collector of traditional Appalachian music and culture. Bruce has lived and worked among the people of Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina for more than thirty years, bringing to his playing the profound intimacy and dignity he absorbed through his apprenticeships with musicians born as far back as the 1880?s. In the evening after the workshops, he will be joined by his partner Loy McWhirter, a fine singer of traditional songs. Together they will present an evening of fiddle tunes, a capella songs, the occasional banjo tune, and their stories about the music. Bruce Greene might not be well known to the general public, but he is revered by aficionados. Perhaps the best glowing review of him comes from the Old Time Fiddlers Hall of Fame: "In the 70s and 80s, Bruce immersed himself in Kentucky fiddling, tracking down as many surviving musicians as he could. This foundation helped him build upon a style and repertoire unlike any other. 30 years ago, Bruce's playing more closely mirrored the sources he learned from, but today, it's developed into his own unique style, which still retains many of the traditional elements that make his fiddling sound authentic and ancient. His incredible technique is camoflaged by his relaxed style of playing. There have been many tunes which at first seemed easy enough while watching Bruce play them, but turned out to be quite challenging as I tried to learn them. Bruce's repertoire includes a vast number of obscure and crooked tunes, as if opening a previously locked door to a room rich with old-time music most people didn't know existed." More at http://www.oldtimemusic.com/FHOFGreene.html.Sing Out! Magazine writes: "Another player whose style and repertoire are almost entirely reflective of one region is the legendary and somewhat reclusive Bruce Greene. Evidently, we all owe Greene a giant debt not only for preserving scores of archaic central and eastern Kentucky fiddle pieces from fiddlers now passed on, but also for choosing to adopt the gently, rolling bow of some of his teachers as his own. To hear him play...is to take a trip back in time. It is hard to imagine that this is a man in his (forties) playing for us in the (nineties)." {Add a decade all around, but the review still holds!]