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Fiddle Hangout Newsletter #73
In this issue...
+ Member Video Picks
+ Lose Your Musical Dogma
+ Popular Forum Topics
Click to enlarge Hi Fiddlers,
Here's a quick newsletter to share some of my favorite new videos, discussion and lessons from FHO members. Hope you enjoy it. Play nice!

~ Eric Schlange
Fiddle Hangout Webmaster
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Member Video Picks
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Orange Blossom Special & Lee Highway Blues
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Cold Frosty Morning
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Gamle Svarversvend
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Vance No More

Lose Your Musical Dogma

Here's a quick tip from FHO member and supporter Vi Wickham. It's really easy, as a musician, to get wrapped up in a particular ideology, or a particular style of music, and to become a "purist" about that style. To think that style is the best style, or that style is the only style.

But it's just not true!
Lesson Video
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New Book Explores the Creative Mind of John Hartford

John Hartford’s Mammoth Collection of Fiddle Tunes provides a sizable anthology containing 176 of his original compositions. Most of these tunes are previously unpublished and unrecorded, taken from Hartford’s personal music journals. The book includes 60+ of John’s personal drawings—ranging in theme from steamboats and the river, to fellow musicians, home and everyday life—as well as several never before seen photographs.

Best known for writing the Glen Campbell classic “Gentle on My Mind,” and launching Newgrass music with his landmark album Aereo-Plain, Hartford was a prolific songwriter and composer. A central figure in the Nashville acoustic community, he championed old-time music with an emphasis on the fiddle.
A one-minute flip through the new John Hartford fiddle book

Popular Forum Topics

Here are a few currently popular topics from the Fiddle Hangout forums:

Good, tight musicians.. A breath of fresh air
The Devil Went Down To Georgia
Anti-Old-Time Bias in Contests
Matt Cranitch Irish fiddle book and jigs
Ebay as Source of Introductory Level Fiddles
Counting/Tempo
Bridges
Country fills
meet an jam
Playing in Octaves
Grasstrax
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