Product Details

• Actors: Bruce Molsky
• Directors: Happy Traum
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: Unrated
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Hal Leonard
• VHS Release Date: April 1, 2001
• Run Time: 75 minutes
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• ASIN: B00005UPI6
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #110,841 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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About the Actor

Bruce Molsky is one of the mostinfluential old-time fiddlers on the scene today. He has earned numerous awards at fiddle and banjo contests around the South, and has performed extensively at festivals and concert venues throughout the U.S. and abroad. He is a highly sought-after teacher, and conducts his own intensive fiddle workshop program all over the United States. He is a regular instructor at Augusta Heritage Center, Ashokan Music Camp, and Alasdair Fraser's Valley of the Moon Scottish Fiddle Camp, among others. His most recent CDs, "Poor Man's Troubles" and "Lost Boy", are on Rounder Records.

Product Description

One of today’s most popular performers of old-time music teaches six great tunes, each from a different geographical area of the Southern U.S. As you play along with Bruce you’ll learn bowing patterns, drones, rhythmic emphasis, phrasing and other subtleties that will add drive and beauty to your fiddle playing.

Each piece is in a different tuning, an important aspect of the old-time style. Songs include Washington’s March from Pocahantas County, West Virginia (DDAD tuning); Saddle Up the Gray from Mississippi (GDAD); Old Bunch of Keys from North Carolina (AEAE); The Lost Indian, a Texas tune (AEAC#); and Candy Girl, a 1924 Tennessee tune (AEAD “sawmill” tuning). Do ‘Round My Lindy, from Georgia (ADAD), demonstrates how to sing and play fiddle at the same time. Bruce shows how you can use both basic and non-traditional harmonies to create compelling sounds and add to the richness of your accompaniment.