Fiddlejam with Donna Hébert and friends Companion Jam CD for Fiddling Demystified for Strings
Tunes are from Irish, Scottish, French-Canadian, New England, Appalachian Old Time, Cajun and original sources
	Jam along with Donna Hébert and friends on the tunes from Vol. I, Fiddling Demystified for String Players. Arranged in medleys for listening and jamming along, most tracks are recorded in stereo. This intimate CD makes you feel you are in the living room with the musicians as they play! Musicians include Jane Rothfield, George Wilson, Max Cohen, Stuart Kenney, Chanterelle, John McGann, Sarah Blair, Gideon Freudmann and more.

Fiddlejam track list & mp3 samples • ORDER FORM

1. Wind that Shakes the Barley / Cluck Old Hen / End of July - last tune © D. Hébert

2. November Wind - © J. Rothfield (Groove Camp 2004)

3. Fisher's Hornpipe / Old French / Ross' Reel #4 / Fisher's

4. Irish Alleluia / Star of Munster Am/Gm

5. Un Canadien Errant

6. Jongle à moi (Chanterelle)

7. Thanksgiving Waltz - © Cynthia Thomas

8. Sirens of Autumn / Reunion Gigue / Kitty Magee (first 2 tunes © D. Hébert)

9. Winter Lullaby - © D. Hébert

10. L'homme et deux femmes / La danse des foins / Reel de Rémi / Ste. Anne's Reel

11. Lullaby / Berceuse  (Chanterelle) melody © R. Barenberg, lyric © D. Hébert

12. Swallowtail Jig / Willie Coleman's Jig / Autumn Frolic - last tune © A. Bernhard

13. Rockin' the Babies to Sleep

14. Cluck Auld Hen (strathspey, pipe march) / Jigger of Blues / Over the Mountains (last two tunes © D. Hébert)

15. Pennan Den

16. First Frost / Transylvanian Landslide (both tunes © D. Hébert)

17. A Jigger of Blues - Groove Camp 2004 - © D. Hébert

18. Sweet Journeys - © G. Wilson - Max Cohen guitar solo

About Fiddling Demystified for Strings . . .

Among a host of fine fiddle tune collections available today, what makes the entire Fiddling Demystified series stand out? It has to be the level of detail in Donna's transcriptions and CD lessons and her analysis of style. Her primary focus is on "cranking out that rhythm!" says Darol Anger in his foreword to "A Practical Guide" Says fiddling colleague Jane Rothfield, "Donna has written a veritable encyclopedia of fiddling. She cracks the codes of fiddling rhythms, styles and techniques with an easy-to-understand right and left-hand method."

Jane Ezbicki, 2006 President of the Massachusetts String Teachers' Association, hired Donna and Groovemama in 2006 to work with the Wayland MA High School Orchestra and remarked,

"Donna and her colleagues changed the way my students and I think about fiddling. They actually helped us to feel confident enough to turn our music over, close our eyes and play independently."

Adjunct fiddle instructor at Amherst College and a 2005 Artists Grant Finalist in Massachusetts, Donna has been recognized by New England arts councils, NPR, Smithsonian-Folkways Recordings and the independent recording industry for her fiddling and cultural contributions. Teaching workshops for schools, universities, conferences and ASTA chapters, she also directs Fiddling Demystified Camp, a five-day August fiddling intensive for fiddlers and string teachers, and The Great Groove Band of school-age folk musicians every year at the Old Songs and Philadelphia Folk Festivals, working with Old Songs this year to establish a new Great Groove Band Summer Camp. A Franco-American fiddling master, she has worked under state arts council sponsorship with apprentices from Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. With the Vermont Folklife Center and fiddler George Wilson, she also co-directs The Beaudoin Project, preserving, documenting and presenting the music of Vermont's Beaudoin family.

Says Dr. Alan Jabbour, Director (ret.) of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress,

"Donna is an outstanding performer and a world-class teacher of the art of fiddle. I consider her at the forefront of the developing field of fiddle pedagogy."

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