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Free fiddle fun from Donna!

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.
  • Transposing fiddle tunes for viola and cello – from Fiddling Demystified for Strings
  • Free fiddle lessons – French-Canadian, Irish, American styles, string arrgts.
  • How to learn a tune by ear – from Donna’s new fiddle blog
  • 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
  • Kangaroo Jig – original jig, Donna, Denis Frechette piano, André Marchand guitar -Chanterelle: Soirée chez nous
  • Nana Danced – Donna’s original song about her French-Canadian grandmother -Chanterelle: Soirée chez nous
  • Pennan Den – Scots air with Donna and George Wilson, fiddles, Max Cohen electric guitar – from Fiddlejam CD
  • Thanksgiving Waltz © Cynthia Thomas – from Fiddlejam CD