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.
The Muse of Joy and Sorrow: Why We Play the Fiddle - Donna’s online book of fiddle lore, stories, images and poetry. Includes literature (“Fiddler of the Reels” by Thomas Hardy), art (eight genre paintings by William Sidney Mount of fiddlers and dancing from the early 1800s) and poetry from Edgar Lee Masters, Stephen Vincent, Myra Brooks Welch and other poets including Donna, whose essays and poetry include:
The Fiddler’s Eye poem (Country Dance & Song, Fiddler Magazine, Grumbling Old Woman)
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
16 Aug 2010
- 20 Aug 2010
French-Canadian Music & Dance Camp with Donna Hébert, Pascal Gemme, Marc Maziade, Steve Normandin & Marie-Soleil PiletteinVoorheesville NY atOld Songs Community CenterBuy tickets
20 Aug 2010
- 22 Aug 2010
GroovemamainSchwenksville PAatPhiladelphia Folk Festival – coaching the Great Groove Band of youth musiciansBuy tickets
