Tuesday, February 16 • 7 p.m.
Columbia Public Library, 100 West Broadway
Missouri’s state musical instrument, the fiddle, has been important throughout our state’s history and across many cultural and social groups, as documented in “Now That’s a Good Tune: Masters of Traditional Missouri Fiddling.” This landmark book and recording project, originally produced in 1989 following years of research by a team of scholars and students at the University of Missouri, was a finalist for two Grammy Awards. Dr. Howard Marshall, one of the original authors, was instrumental in creating a new revised edition in 2008, so that this classic work is available once again, this time with music on CD. Come hear Dr. Marshall and some musical colleagues talk about the fiddle in our state history and entertain us with some Missouri tunes. Copies of the new edition of “Now That’s a Good Tune” will be available for purchase at a special price.
Posted on January 18th, 2010
March 25-28, 2010
Harrison, Arkansas • South Campus of North Arkansas College
Contact: Carl Wills at (870) 429-6174 or visit www.harrisonarkansas.org for more information.
Posted on January 14th, 2010
Fred Stoneking, fiddler, guitar and banjo player, son of Lee Stoneking, passed away in October 2009 after a fight with cancer. Fred was a fixture at local festivals at Harrison, Arkansas and Compton Ridge, Missouri, comfortable playing bluegrass, contest fiddle, or the Ozark tunes he learned as a youngster. He will be missed. Read more about him.
Posted on October 12th, 2009
Nebraska fiddler Bob Walters is little-known outside Missouri Valley fiddle circles, but that’s about to change with the new release of eighty of Bob’s best tunes on “Bob Walters, The Champion: Classic Missouri Valley Fiddling from Dwight Lamb’s Collection.”
Long before the days of the iPod or even the portable tape recorder, Dwight Lamb was collecting recordings from Bob Walters on wire recorders, reel-to-reels, or whatever the latest technology might be. Now we’re lucky to have his amazing collection of Bob Walters recordings cherry-picked into this giant two-CD set which demonstrates both Mr. Walters’ mastery of the instrument and his breadth of repetoire. The set includes reels, waltzes, polkas and quadrilles, and even a few more rare birds, and tunes are sourced all the way from Kentucky to Canada and beyond.
Posted on August 20th, 2009
First and third Thursdays of each month, September-May • 5-8 p.m.
Sessions will resume in September, 2009.
Boone County Historical Society Museum in Nifong Park in southeast Columbia (on US 63 South, take AC exit, go west on Grindstone Ave., and then south on Ponderosa to museum). Map.
Due to popular demand (that’s right), in September 2009, after a year’s hiatus, the Little Dixie Old-Time Fiddle Club will return to the Boone-Walters Historical Museum in southeast Columbia, Missouri. Our emphasis is on traditional fiddle music. All levels of experience are welcome, but we ask that everyone observe “jam session etiquette.”
For more information, contact the Boone County Historical Society by calling 573-443-8936 or Howard Marshall 573-642-6226.
