Bob Tedrow Posted January 19, 2004 Posted January 19, 2004 My daughter Alexandra place first in 16 and under music competition at the New Orleans Feis this weekend. Daddy Tedrow
Rhomylly Posted January 19, 2004 Posted January 19, 2004 Oh, very well done, Alexandra! (nice to see she's being raised properly )
JimLucas Posted January 20, 2004 Posted January 20, 2004 Oh, very well done, Alexandra! (nice to see she's being raised properly ) I'll bet you'd be doing famously, too, if you had an instrument made especially for you, to your own specifications (including color).
JoachimDelp Posted January 20, 2004 Posted January 20, 2004 Good luck and a lot of enjoyment to you Alexandra. ! Congratulaions to you Bob ! My Grandson and my latest daugther, both 9 years, are starting to play Concertina with me. Sahll inform to you Bob about progress and some day they might play with Alecandra ? Kind regards Jochim
Rhomylly Posted January 20, 2004 Posted January 20, 2004 Oh, very well done, Alexandra! (nice to see she's being raised properly ) I'll bet you'd be doing famously, too, if you had an instrument made especially for you, to your own specifications (including color). No doubt I would! (but I'm still a long way from winning anything...except maybe a most-improved award or something like that)
Bob Tedrow Posted January 20, 2004 Author Posted January 20, 2004 The competition was hair raising for me, Alex was pretty calm about the whole thing. Come to think of it, she is pretty darn calm about her schoolwork as well. Hmm. She played Harvest Home because she knows it well and can usually nail it. However, I usually play with her and that is apparently not in the rules in N.O. So, she started off out of the gate at the speed of light, just like I said not to do. I just knew when she hit the triplets she would slide off the road, crash and burn. But, she got her speed under control and did a pretty good job, not the best. I think the judges, one of whom was from across the pond were surprized to see a concertina player much less a short one with a school dance dress on and the biggest darn wig I have ever seen. There were four competitors in the 16and under catagory, so I am pretty tickled with her performance.
Rhomylly Posted January 20, 2004 Posted January 20, 2004 I crash and burn at those Harvest Home triplets myself, so I shall say: Go Alex, go!
Rhomylly Posted January 20, 2004 Posted January 20, 2004 Been learning much online about the feis culture today... Anyone know of any that have adult instrument competitions? (not that I'm at all ready, but it's nice to dream...)
Bob Tedrow Posted January 20, 2004 Author Posted January 20, 2004 (edited) Apparently, there are adult music competitions for adults in manyof the Feis. The overall music trophy winner at the NOLA Feis was an adult harp player from Texas. We will be at a Feis in Memphis next, it looks like the music competition is on Friday night. They have a tin whistle category and a fiddle category. Concertina is held under the "other" category along with the cow chip toss. Bob Tedrow Edited January 20, 2004 by Bob Tedrow
Rhomylly Posted January 20, 2004 Posted January 20, 2004 ...cow chip toss? Is this anything like a caber toss?
RustyBits Posted January 23, 2004 Posted January 23, 2004 Excellent! My 21 year old has no interest, but I can still work on my daughters that are 2 and 5. . . How old was your daughter when she started playing?
Bob Tedrow Posted January 23, 2004 Author Posted January 23, 2004 Alex, has been playing for about a year. I would point out that she has certainly heard more than her share of instrumental music in her eleven years of life. My ten year old concertinist daughter Alex and I onstage last year at a local event. http://hmi.homewood.net/video/BobnAlex.rm
RustyBits Posted January 24, 2004 Posted January 24, 2004 Thanks for sharing the movie clip It was wonderful! My girls go to contra dances, Morris practice and any concert that is within driving distance. I'm hoping that some of this good music will rub off on them. So, in 5 years or so I'll have to get you to build my daughter a squeezebox!
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