the Hoedown Throwdown

Poststructural Pub
1

This is something else! :laughing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KGLgDQAo5U&eurl=http://exple.tive.org/blarg/?p=964

2

Woo hoo!
That was great!
Thanks! :laughing:

3

I sure love that kind of music.

4

Toronto subway - safe while the lights are on. :smiley:

djm

5

Amazing part is how many people were just walking by, seemingly oblivious to such fine art.

6

Wow, the fiddlerā€™s holding his fiddle in the crook of his arm. Iā€™ve never seen
that one beforeā€¦

I notice that thereā€™s an ad for the Fox show Fringe on the wall. I wondered
why they showed that image of an apple with human fetuses as seeds
(among other weird images) when they went to commercial. Clearly it was
so they could use them as inscrutable ads on subways.

7

I remember when Doug Kershaw was getting well known and made that Cajun fiddle style popular.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUuvmsJAJ7Q

djm

8

Oh, so itā€™s Cajun style? Good to know, thanks.

Though, that makes me think of this guy:

9

I donā€™t know much about Cajun fiddle, but playing on the collarbone or even in the crook of the arm is a common old-time technique. Itā€™s done a lot in this part of the country. Hotshot players who come to mind are David Bass (late of the Freighthoppers), Bruce Greene, Alice Gerrard, Brad Leftwich, Mike Seeger, etcā€¦

10

That wasnā€™t Cajun music. Iā€™ve see quite a few fiddlers hold their fiddle like that though.

11

Which of the two video links are you referring to?

12

Iā€™ve been a fan of Doug Kershaw low these many years and part of the fascination is watching him play. Iā€™ve never seen anyone in my part of appalachia play holding the fiddle like that.

I agree with Flydood, it doesnā€™t sound like Cajun music, sounded like plain ole ā€œold timeā€ to me. That clawhammer banjo player was good.

You know though, this video just proves my theory about old time music- folks just canā€™t be still when they hear it, gotta get up and dance-even if they donā€™t really know quite what to do .

13

Holding the fiddle like that is not uncommon. Rick Danko did it, as I recall, when he wasnā€™t on bass.

14

I used to attend a lot of fiddle contests. There are a number of folks who hold it that way.

15

The first one.

One time in New Orleans I got to sit in with Waylon Thibodeauxā€™s band. It was a hoot playing Cajun harmonica.

16

Who says the race canā€™t work together? :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: