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Sweet Music is a private music studio in Granby, Massachusetts that offers lessons on violin and fiddle, viola, mandolin and guitar. Sweet Music was founded in 1985 by Adam Sweet.
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In this episode, I describe the new guest-focused podcasts that I will be starting in October. I also talk about some of the new aspects of the studio including online lessons, events, youtube channel and how to help.
In this episode, I read a bit from Seth Rogovoy's introduction to Klezmer Music, talk about my own connection and history with the music and its relevance in the music world today.
In this podcast, I talk about the changes going on at my studio, the news about my new website https://sweetmusic.studio and some other information. I then talk a bit about my trip to China to source high quality horse tail hair for bows.
About 14 years ago, I was living in Hadley in a rental apartment on route 9 not far from whole foods. I was playing at the time with a string quartet that played traditional Irish and Celtic music called Woodkerne. Our band consisted of banjo, fiddle, guitar, and bodhran. We played a mixture of Celtic fiddle tunes that were tunes that I had picked up over the years playing in bluegrass bands and contradance bands. The members also contributed their own songs that they wanted to play and we sang a few songs as well. We played a variety of jigs and horn pipes and polkas and waltzes and because of my classical music background and it specifically my chamber music background I really spent a lot of time making up interesting arrangements for the different musical instruments.
The String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart*, nicknamed "Dissonance" on account of its unusual slow introduction, is perhaps the most famous of his quartets. It is the last in the set of six quartets composed between 1782 and 1785 that he dedicated to "A Very Celebrated Man": Joseph Haydn. Learn more about Mozart, his life, and my studio at htp://sweetmusicstudio.net
Each year millions of people celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. It is a national holiday in Ireland when people do not work but worship and gather with family. In the United States, the first St. Patrick’s Day parade was held in New York on March 17, 1762. It consisted largely of Irish soldiers. Today, St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated by wearing green, which symbolizes spring as well as Irish culture.Visit my website at http://sweetmusicstudio.net where you can learn more about St Patrick's Day, register for private lessons on fiddle or mandolin or register for one of the group classes offered in person and online.Thank you for listening!
Giovanni Vailati, blind mandolinist
Based out of a small town in New Jersey, Barry Mitterhoff is a mandolinist who absolutely refuses to be pigeonholed into one style, despite the ease with which a writer in this sort of database can click on a key that says bluegrass.
Many argue that the Church destroyed Irish traditional music and discouraged new players. But it also laid the groundwork for the "band", the "ceilidh band" in particular, as the mainstay of music for dancing in Ireland, opening a new chapter in Irish music History.
Frankie Gavin was born in 1956 in Corrandulla, County Galway, from a musical family; his parents and siblings being players of the fiddle and accordion. As a child he played the tin whistle from the age of four and, later, the flute. He received some formal training in music, but his musical ability on the fiddle is mainly self-taught. When 17 years old, he gained first place in both the All Ireland Under-18 Fiddle and Flute competitions.
The general session scheme is that someone starts a tune, and those who know it join in. Good session etiquette requires not playing if one does not know the tune, and waiting until a tune one knows comes along. In an "open" session, anyone who is able to play Irish music is welcome.
For the greater part of the 20th century, Pizzitola ran his own music school on the second floor of 81 Suffolk Street in Holyoke, which was above the former Victory Theater. Pizzitola taught mandolin, banjo, guitar, and accordion.
In this podcast, Adam Sweet talks about his various trips to China researching tonewood, horse tail hair, and stringed instruments generally and specifically his relationship with Mando Mo Strings.
When trying to understand the Middle Ages it is sometimes the aspects of daily life that are most difficult to research. Few writers from the period left detailed descriptions of the games they played or what they did to entertain themselves.
Today's podcast talks about The Origins of Dance Music in Ireland
Today's podcast covers The Irish Feis - history and evolution of modern-day Irish dancing
Today's podcast covers The Seven (7) Church Modes and how to remember them
Today's podcast covers the history and evolution of my celtic music duo, Celticado, co-founded with guitarist James Bunting in 2004
The Fiddler's Bow - carbon fiber bow for fiddlers
Today's podcast is about The Monroe Brothers, and the introduction to Bluegrass music
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