...and so I said to myself, "I've always wanted to play the fiddle. Maybe I'll take it up now; it would be nice to have a little hobby that will keep me busy for 20 or 30 minutes at a time, on days that I feel like it..."
Didn't quite turn out that way.
I am: an Ottawa native; a Vancouver resident; a teetotaler; a mutt with no ancestral ties to the British Isles; a descendant of desert wanderers and peasants from landlocked farming communities; horribly, horribly prone to seasickness...
...and somehow I ended up spending an inordinate amount of time in Irish pubs singing drinking songs and sea shanties. Oh, and fiddling, which I've only been doing since June 2006, but it's already taken over my life. I can quit anytime I want to, I swear! Heck, I quit three times yesterday alone!
Tunes in Tall, Dark, and Mysterious's tunebook: 138
| Little Sara | jig | December 2nd 2008 |
| The Winnipeg | reel | September 20th 2008 |
| The Festival | reel | August 27th 2007 |
| Maple Sugar | reel | March 11th 2007 |
| CelticFest Vancouver | March 9th 2007 |
| The People You Meet | June 4th 2008 |
| Missing notes, and not-so-ambiguous modes: a theory query | November 13th 2007 |
| What's a breakdown? | October 19th 2007 |
| Looking for tunes with octave-and-a-third ranges | March 12th 2007 |
| Instruments in harsh climates, care and feeding of | February 2nd 2007 |
| Discussions | Re: Day jobs, construction, ITM, hand care | December 15th 2008 |
| Discussions | Re: Crans, triplets, cuts -- all good -- but is there a Christmas ornament suitable for fiddle players? | December 6th 2008 |
| Discussions | Re: For Experienced Fiddlers | December 4th 2008 |
| Tunes | Little Sara | December 2nd 2008 |
| Discussions | Re: Musicians can't dance | November 29th 2008 |