When I stop in the LBS I always invite them to a monthly gig at the pub across the street but none of them have ever come out to hear me play. This week, they called me and wanted to know the date I was performing there, and they scheduled their staff party (going-away party) around it! It will be fun to have them in the audience next Friday.
Most of my cycling friends have no conception of the music part of my life, playing fiddle in two bands, mostly Irish music. There are a couple of fiddle tunes that refer to bikes. Maybe I'll have to learn to play one of these tunes for the occasion: "The Bike to Ballyhahill" by Liz Carroll or "The Bike Trip" ( polkas) or "The Stolen Bicycle" (a jig), or "The Broderick Brothers' Bicycle" (a mazurka)
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10-21-2011, 02:57 PM #1
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LBS staff coming to my music gig for their party
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10-21-2011, 04:36 PM #2
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Very cool! I love that kind of music. I was trained as a classical violinist but gave it up years ago.
I probably would have kept at it if I had started fiddling. I miss making music.
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The gig sounds like fun! And some bicycle themed tunes would be terrific. I'd come!
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10-21-2011, 07:30 PM #4
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Goldfinch, I made the switch to fiddling with a 20 year hiatus from violin. I could never learn vibrato.
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10-21-2011, 07:38 PM #5
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Originally Posted by azfiddle
Really! I don't even have a violin anymore. Wish I had one around to play with.Trek Madone 4.7 WSD
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10-22-2011, 06:45 AM #6
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I love Irish music! I also love bluegrass, which developed in part, from Irish settlers. I can't stand country music but bluegrass is a whole different genre. I was trained as a classical flutist, and still play as a hobbyist. Goldfinch, you can take it back up again! I'm in a community band that has a lot of adults who have taken up their instruments again. I would LOVE to rent or borrow a cello and take cello lessons. That instrument, however, seems ripe for repetitive strain injuries. My daughter was using one for one of her music ed classes, and she taught me how to play a little something on it. Holding the bow the right way seemed very awkward!
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