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Band line UP: Molly Andrews, vocals; Tina Chancey, fiddle; Bruce Hutton, vocals, guitar, fretless banjo, mouth bow
Zan McLeod, guitar, banjo, snare drum.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2010 at 7:30 PM
BlackRock Center for the Arts
Germantown, MD
Tel: (240) 912-1057
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2010 AT 4 PM
THE CHATEAUVILLE FOUNDATION
Theatre House, Castleton Farms, Castleton, VA
Tel: (540) 937-4969 Toll free: 1-866-974-0767
or email boxoffice@chateauville.org
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Ken Kolodner featured at Upper Potomac dulcimer Festival, March 2010
Shepherdstown, WV* Upper Potomac Spring Music Weekend
Friday, March 19-Sunday, March 21
Includes Maggies Music recording artist and one of America's premier hammered dulcimer and old-time fiddlers- Ken Kolodner.
see his cd: Journey to the Heartland to hear more!
more info:Joanie Blanton
Upper Potomac Music Weekends
PO Box 1474
Shepherdstown, WV 25443
(304) 263-2531
updf@earthlink.net
Maggie's tune The Bear Dance- featured on Mel Bay's Webmagazine Dulcimer Session's
Here's a link to Mel Bay Publications and their wonderful webmagazine:
*you can hear the tune ( mp3) & download the article with the sheet music too!
Here's a link to A Traveler's Dream and you can hear an audio sample too.
"The Bear Dance"A Swedish Tune with Two Variations for Hammered Dulcimer (Intermediate level)by Maggie Sansone
I recorded this tune on hammered dulcimer on "A Traveler's Dream" (MM110). The track features hammered dulcimer and with Al Petteway on acoustic guitar, Andrea Hoag on fiddle, and Bobby Read on clarinet, accordion, electric bass and percussion.It’s a medley that includes two versions of "Bear Dance" and an improvisation. The basic versions of the two tunes are included in the Mel Bay Publication Maggie's Big Book of Celtic Tunes. For this article, I have created a new arrangement for the "Bear Dance #1 that adds embellishments that enhance the melody's haunting quality and is both a challenge and fun to play too! I've also transcribed the improvisation that is heard on the recording and will call it "Bear Dance Improvisation."
About The Bear Dance (Björndansen)
The Swedish "bear dance" is an athletic dance traditionally performed by a pair of men who act out the power and grace of the bear. I learned these tunes from Swedish fiddler Andrea Hoag, who traces the bear dances (two variants) to Dalarna, Sweden's "folklore province." In the deep woods of Dalarna, the bear is called "Twelve Men in the Woods."
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