I'm 55, and have been playing since I was 43. The reason I started playing the fiddle was by chance really. I was driving along listening to CBC radio and heard a fiddle tune that blew my mind in a way I had never heard before. I found out it was by Eilen Ivers and went out and bought her albums and started listening to them. I devoured everything she did and found myself going into ecstatic states to some of her tunes. It finally convinced me to rent a fiddle and take it further. Once I had a fiddle I was hooked.
I admit to liking to play the livelier tunes and less the slow ones. I realized recently that my whole purpose for fiddling was to fly....in my spirit that is. Sometimes I get going on a tune and become possessed and start doing crazy things I have never done before and feel like a whirling dervish with the bow.
I live in Victoria BC Canada and play with a few other people here and there.
Tunes in fiddlerpaul's tunebook: 63
| The Road To Ruin | reel | January 20th 2011 |
| Tunes | Great tune thanks! | September 16th 2011 |
| Tunes | Whoops found it | August 9th 2011 |
| Tunes | Kevin Burke and Michael Domhnail | August 9th 2011 |
| Tunes | August 9th 2011 | |
| Tunes | The Road to Ruin | January 20th 2011 |