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Lakeland Fiddler

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About Lakeland Fiddler

  • Birthday 08/18/1958

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    I love all forms of trad music. I play fiddle with the Lakeland Fiddlers and with a ceilidh band called Rooted. I also play mandolin and bodhran.
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    Lancashire, UK

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  1. Well done on the video. I too, suffer from red button syndrome. I can play fiddle quite well until I press the record button or realise someone is looking and listening. One of the ways I'm learning to overcome this is to record everything I play. I don't listen back to everything, I usually just delete it, but it's amazing that sometimes I actually capture something worth listening to because I get used to the recorder being on. I look forward to seeing your next video, it can only get easier from here
  2. Probably easier and closer to hand, how about putting your concertina in a sweat shirt and playing it with your hands up the sleeves. If it's really heavy duty muting you're after, try a duffle coat You're joking, but I'm serious. A sweatshirt, been fluffy and not dence, will not provide sound insolation. The best would be dark room bag, made of thick leather, but there aren't such. Those dencely woven cotton, double lined bags are pretty good, and they are made as though intended for the purpose. One of my daughters is at college studying art and is now on a photography project. She has been doing her own developing and printing so I asked if I could borrow her darkroom bag for a muffler for the concertina. Within minutes of starting to play my hands were sweating, so much so that I could no longer hold on to the instrument. I conclude that a darkroom bag is not a good way to play quietly. Edited for spelling
  3. One of my favorite albums atm is New Dogs, Old Tricks. Emma Reid (fiddle) Robert Harbron (English concertina).
  4. I was in the pub when I realised I had left my bodhran on the back seat of my unlocked car. I dashed out but it was too late, there were already three other bodhrans thrown in on top of mine
  5. I started out on guitar 40 years ago. I've dabbled with flute, bodhran (is that a musical instrument ) mandolin, fiddle and now the English concertina. I would call the fiddle my main instrument. The Ec playing is not going very well atm because the fiddle is a jealous mistress and demands a lot of attention to keep the standard up.
  6. Yup I've got three Myspace profiles (I'm greedy). Check out the links bellow;
  7. On a similar theme to the previous poster, I just bought the Zoom H2 recorder. A very useful piece of kit for home and session recording. http://www.samsontech.com/products/product...cfm?prodid=1916
  8. I have a couple of AKG C1000S mics that I plug into a small Behringer mixer, then into Audacity on my laptop. If you set the pan controls full left on one input and full right on the other you can record two separate channels or instruments. My fiddle and mandolin sound great recorded this way, but the concertina sounds terrible. That probably has more to do with my playing ability than the recording gear though
  9. My avatar is a photo someone took of me while I was performng on stage at Fiddle Hell in Buxton UK. This was my first public solo performance as a fiddler and was memorable because I had just taken possession of my new instrument, a Bridge Siren. I wonder how long it will be before I have a photo of my first solo concertina gig
  10. I seem to remember something about a Northumbrian pipers session somewhere in north Cumbria. I'll ask around and get back to you if I find anything. Did you manage to get to Solfest this year, it's just up the road from you? I played with the Lakeland Fidddlers on the Drystone stage on the Saturday afternoon. Fantastic weekend
  11. I don't name my instruments, but I recently heard my wife telling one of her friends that I always seem to be going out with Vi, Mandy and Tina..... .....Violin, mandolin and concertina
  12. Fredrika, to contact the Lakeland Fiddlers just click on the link in my signature line below. Feel free to send me a message or any enquiries. We host a session on the second Tuesday of the month at the Hawkshead Brewery Beer Hall (above Wilf's Cafe) in Staveley, near Kendal in Cumbria. There are usually several concertina players, but all types of instruments are most welcome.
  13. Oops! That didn't come across how I intended it No you didn't murder the tune. Like Dick says, that was a good effort.
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