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August Week II Fiddle

Jennifer Armstrong

November 30, 2014 by

Louisa Engle

November 30, 2014 by

Liz Faiella

March 6, 2017 by

Éric Favreau

November 30, 2014 by

Mary Fraser

March 6, 2017 by

Ellen Gawler

November 30, 2014 by

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Instrument: Banjo, Fiddle, Story Telling
Session(s): August Week II, June Week, June Weekend II, VMFC - Feb 2021
Nest(s): Hawks
Instrument by Session(s): August Week II Fiddle, June Week Banjo, June Weekend II Fiddle

Visit Jennifer’s website (http://www.jenniferarmstrong.com/).
233 Poors Mill Road Belfast ME 04915 207-322-2265

Instrument: Fiddle
Session(s): August Week II, June Weekend II
Instrument by Session(s): August Week II Fiddle, June Weekend II Fiddle

Louisa started playing violin as and eight-year-old through her public school’s strings program. In high school, she taught private violin lessons to younger students. Her music became more fiddley by the day. As a sophomore at Marlboro College, she founded a contra dance band, named “Wendy and the Lost Boys” by their admirers. The band studied with musician Keith Murphy. Louisa then hosted a monthly contra dance series that ran for four years. (more…)

Instrument: Fiddle
Session(s): August Week II
Instrument by Session(s): August Week II Fiddle

An Irish fiddler with New England contradance flair and classical sensitivities, Liz Faiella has captivated audiences at premier folk venues, contradances, and festivals around New England. (more…)

Instrument: Fiddle
Session(s): August Week I, August Week II, June Week, June Weekend I, June Weekend II, VMFC - Feb 2021
Nest(s): Buffleheads
Instrument by Session(s): August Week I Fiddle, August Week II Fiddle, June Week Fiddle, June Weekend I Fiddle, June Weekend II Fiddle

Éric Favreau comes from a family of traditional musicians and has spent a great deal of time playing with other fiddlers, learning their repertoire and studying their varied styles. Éric has explored and exploited various sources including archives and personally made field recordings and has accumulated a rich and fascinating repertoire. Over the years, he has garnered a profound understanding and vast knowledge of Québécois traditional music. (more…)

Instrument: Banjo, Fiddle
Session(s): August Week I, August Week II, June Week, June Weekend I, June Weekend II
Instrument by Session(s): August Week I Fiddle, August Week II Fiddle, June Week Fiddle, June Weekend I Fiddle, June Weekend II Fiddle

Mary Fraser began her musical life by training in classical violin for thirteen years, concluding with a Suzuki method violin teacher certification.  She then left the classical music world and traveled extensively throughout the UK, immersing in the traditional music of her heritage.  Carrying right on into the southern US states to study the old time fiddle styles of eastern Kentucky, West Virginia and North Carolina.  (more…)

Instrument: Fiddle
Session(s): August Week I, August Week II, June Week, June Weekend I, June Weekend II, VMFC - Feb 2021
Nest(s): Blues Jays
Instrument by Session(s): August Week I Fiddle, August Week II Fiddle, June Week Fiddle, June Weekend I Fiddle, June Weekend II Fiddle

Ellen Gawler is a celebrated fiddler, masterful in many styles, including Irish, French-Canadian, Maritime, Shetland and New England. Her fiddling possesses sparkling clarity, authentically rooted in tradition while at the same time inventive and playful. Her lively delivery of traditional fiddling has sent many a contra dance hall into whirling delight with soaring melodies and driving rhythms. (more…)

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2021 Dates(Tentative):

All camp sessions for 2020 have been cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.  Here are the tentative 2021 dates.

June Weekend I – June 18-20, 2021
June Week – June 20-25, 2021
June Weekend II – June 25-27, 2021
August Week I – August 8-13, 2021
August Week II – August 15-20, 2021

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New Tunes Posted for 2020:

  • A Hundred Pipers
  • After the Ball
  • Britches Full Of Stitches
  • Canadian Reel
  • Daleigh
  • Flop Eared Mule
  • Have You Been to Ireland?
  • Highland Laddie
  • In the Good Old Summertime
  • Indian Reel
  • Irish American Waltz
  • La Moquine
  • Maggie Brown
  • Monk’s March
  • Moonlight Bay
  • Quebec Reel
  • Rain
  • Saponette
  • Wait Till the Sunshines, Nellie

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