Here are some local and web resources to keep you fiddling and listening to great tunes this summer (and all year round)!  Keep me updated on your fiddling adventures!
-Rachel

FIDDLE STUDIO
Listen to great tunes in both slow and fast versions, some sheet music is also posted:
www.fiddlestudio.com

SUNDAY NIGHT JAMMERS
Music jams every Sunday night from 7-9 PM (with sheet music provided), all instruments welcome, many styles of tunes.  Goff Hall, 124 Bay State Road, Rehoboth, MA (about a 20-25 min drive from Providence)
once a month there is a potluck and community dance along with the jam
www.contradancelinks.com/jammers.html

AMAZING SLOW-DOWNER
Download a free trial version of this software.
You can listen to the beginning of most music on a computer in a much slower speed but at the same pitch!
www.ronimusic.com

ALL IRISH TUNES
can be found at this site.  You can also find sheet music (treble clef only) for many other celtic styles.
www.thesession.org

LOWELL FOLK FESTIVAL
July 29-31, 2011 – yes, it’s an hour drive away, but it’s also the largest free folk festival in the US!  Hear performers here from all over the world.
www.lowellfolkfestival.org

RHYTHM & ROOTS CAJUN ACADEMY FOR KIDS
Sept 2-4, Free but you can register online starting June 1st.  Charlestown, RI.
It’s an hour drive, but a great experience to learn Cajun tunes and perform at the end of the weekend.  The academy takes under a tent across the way from the festival gates.
Give me a call if you want to try this.
www.rhythmandroots.com/general/academy.php

PAWTUCKET ARTS FESTIVAL
Sept 9-18, all types of great free music around Pawtucket
www.pawtucketartsfestival.org

FREE WATERPLACE PARK FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT SERIES
The calendar isn’t up yet, but check back: concerts are Friday nights in July and August.
http://cityof.providenceri.com/ArtCultureTourism

It seems our other viola fiddle tune is a little too long to post right now, but here’s the tune we composed after improvising in G minor in Fiddle Lab over a couple of weeks this winter leading up to the Youth Salon.  Named by Christian, it’s called “The Sad Tunafish” (or was it tune-a-fish?)

 

[audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/sad-tunafish.mp3|titles=sad tunafish]

From our “tunes that are great for C instruments” workshop with Julie Metcalf: Roustabout

[audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Roustabout.mp3|titles=Roustabout]

http://www.fiddlestudio.com/2009/10/swallowtail-jig-11.html

We recorded our Huntman’s Chorus at the beginning of Fiddle Lab on 11/18/10.  The second time you can hear me calling out the bass line: all G, C, & D! This is still pretty rough, but you can play along with it for sure.  It starts about 11 seconds in.  [audio:http://www.communitymusicworks.org/medialab/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Huntsmans-chorus-Fiddle-Lab-11.18.mp3|titles=Huntsman’s chorus Fiddle Lab 11.18]