Radio Times standouts this week are:
27.2.2013 Wednesday. 7 p.m. Radio 2. Folk Programme featuring Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer to coincide with the release of their new disk with songs from the Child Ballad Collection.
28.2.2013 Thursday 7 p.m. Radio 2 Emmy Lou Harris and Rodney Crowell on Bob Harris Country
28.2.2013 Thursday 11.00 p.m. Radio 3 Jerry Douglas with Norwegian accordionist Stian Carstensen (could be interesting)
The Saturday newspaper featured a large colour advertisement from Brompton's, fine and rare instruments, marking free instrument valuations.
I am afraid all but one of the appraisal days have past (they took place in London, Taunton, Bristol and Brighton) . The Brighton day is tomorrow at:
The Hotel du Vin, 2 Ship Street, Brighton.
Please ring or e-mail to arrange a valuation.
The focus seems to be on "Instruments" (violins) and "Instruments and Guitars." They are accepting entries for the forthcoming sale in June.
If you have a vintage guitar or violin (or another instrument) to sell or you want to participate in the auction to buy:
www.bromptons.co. or valuations@bromptons.co
Telephone: 020 7670 2932
Taube
I find this "shortage" quite mysterious. Given that many youngsters (even youngsters our age) have "done" some violin in the past, you might think that there would be a few who might come back to playing old time/bluegrass in their dotage. Of course, their violin experience may have been so awful that they do not want to take up sawing cat gut again. Still, there are a number of local folk fiddlers, but they are either into Swedish polskas/schottishes or English/Scottish/Irish folk music. Meanwhile, we live in hope.
And now for something completely different: The latest Radio Times lists the following:
World on Three
Radio 3
11 p.m. (23.00 hours)
22.2.2013
New tracks from the band Frigg, who play Nordic grass, a blend of Scandinavian and bluegrass music. Might be worth a listen.
Also keep your ears tuned to various commercials and background music on the radio and TV. It is amazing how many theme tunes are featuring banjos, mandolins, old time and bluegrass music. For those of us "with nothing to do", it might be interesting to keep a log. I'd surely love to know who is doing all that find playing.
Best regards,
Taube
I think there¹s a national shortage of fiddle players Taube we need a
bluegrass fiddle player in West Sussex any body out there?
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