The Second Mississippi Fiddle tune Book!
A second book, encompassing the remaining known tunes,
Fiddle Tunes from Mississippi, Commercial and Informal Recordings, 1920-2018
is now available
Harry's Monthly Jam sessions
Contact me for info on our Beacon NY monthly 2nd Tuesday jam
Our Latest Recording:
Our newest recording project is now
available for download!
We wait all year for the week of friends, music and camping at the
Clifftop, WVA fiddle festival. When it ends, we start waiting again.
With the pandemic of 2020 altering all of our lives, there was no
Clifftop.
While we’re waiting for the next chance to go, we’ve
wandered through the many years of festival memories. So many new
friends and so much joyous music! In our camp we play a lot of pretty
straight up old-time but with this talented crew, the music that we make
in camp for ourselves often drifts into tunes inspired by tradition but
adventuring a bit outside it.
This year, at home, missing the
camaraderie, Harry composed 16 tunes to celebrate the memories of fine
times at Clifftop and to hope for many more to come. In the spring we
began carefully recording outdoors wearing masks and sitting too far
apart on our screened-in porch. With the onset of cold weather we moved
indoors to a high ceilinged basement with HEPA air filters. The tune
titles are lifted straight from a map of the area surrounding Clifftop.
Folks come from all directions to get there, so at least some the names
are familiar signposts on our excited way to Clifftop.
We’re sharing these tunes with you via Bandcamp as “pay what you wish”.
Above all we just want you to hear 'em and have 'em.
$0 is fine, Really.
-The Mississippi Travelers: Harry Bolick, Brian Slattery, Jacques DiCroce, Charlie Shaw