Donna’s new fiddle news and lesson blog has tunes and transcriptions for violin, viola and cello, with tune mp3s. Check out the fiddle lore, lessons and sound and video samples for fiddlers, music fans and teachers:
Swallowtail Jig sample lesson from Fiddling Demystified Vol I
Louis Beaudoin Teach-In – with sheet music transcriptions, the article and Louis Beaudoin sound samples from home and public recordings.
YouTube: Beaudoin Legacy live – in concert at the Blackstone River Theater 3/29/08 – Franque, franque/Ferme ta gueule/Dad’s Reel/La Bastringue
MP3 tune and song samples from Donna’s bands, books and CDs
(Chanterelle, Groovemama and the new Donna/Max Cohen duo)
Blessing – original song, recorded by Lui Collins and many others – from Donna’s 1999 CD Big Boned Beauty
Brasstown/Uncle Bob’s Boogie - 1984 Donna Hébert. Donna, Jane Rothfield (banjo, fiddle), Liza Constable (guitar), Stuart Kenney (bass)
Cluck Old Hen - that sly and ubiquitous Old-Timer, with Donna and Jane Rothfield on fiddles, George Wilson on frailing banjo, from the new Fiddlejam companion CD
East Tennessee Blues – 2006 Great Groove Band of young musicians, Old Songs Festival – the big band’s main stage performance. We also have a teen ensemble and now include singing and dance as well as instruments. The program expanded to the Philly Folk Festival in 2006 and in 2009, the Champlain Valley Folk Festival
Isidore’s Reel – Donna, Pete Sutherland, Lisa Ornstein (fiddles), Denis Frechette piano, Alan Bradbury bass, Liza Constable guitar, Josée Vachon feet - Chanterelle: Soirée chez nous
A Jigger of Blues – original jig, Donna, John McGann, Gideon Freudman, Stuart Kenney, Stefan Amidon – Groove Camp 2004 – from Fiddlejam CD
" Orange on Blue is our favorite CD." Tim Van Egmond and Gale Kuhn. Audience favorites are "Da Slockit Light" and the Donna and Max's original jigs.
In Full Bloom is Donna’s best – un vrai délice! Benoit Bourque, La Bottine Souriante
I LOVE your CD. It is GREAT – wonderful music played with much feeling of style and tradition! Seamus Connolly, Irish fiddler
CONTACT: donna@fiddlingdemystified.com
“Great tunes played with real panache and joy and the right level of fervor. What beautiful, strong playing – you’re sounding fantastic! I’m going to have to learn a bunch of them. Very inspiring.” James Stephens, Canadian fiddler & recording engineer
You are truly the best out there! There is a joyous lift and excitement – and love – in your music. Many thanks. Jo-Ellen Boisson, fiddler, Poughkeepsie
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Donna Hébert, Max Cohen, Molly Hebert-WilsoninGoderich, OntarioatCeltic College
