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• Mar 1,  pending, Clark Bar
• Mar 6,  FHB Royal Community Dance
• Mar 27,  Dueling Guitars, Jupiters II, 8pm
• Mar 9,   FHB, Cruzen's, Peoria
• Mar 10,  FHB, Gigs, Fairbury
• Mar 13,  Dueling Guitars, Jupiters II, 8pm
• Mar 17,  FHB, Private Party
• Mar 20,  Dueling Guitars, Jupiters II, 8pm
• Mar 24,  FHB, Shooky's, Paxton
• Mar 27,  Dueling Guitars, Jupiters II, 8pm
• Mar 30,  FHB, Bradleys

    FHB: Feudin' Hillbillys

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• Wikipedia: Fiddle, same instrument as a violin, just a different name.  Some fiddlers like to 'flatten' the bridge to cut down on arm movement for doublestops and triplestops, and chords.  It is also more common to see steel strings rather than gut or synthetic, and fine tuners on all four strings; this being very uncommon for classical violinists.  According to Branson performer, Shoji Tabuchi the difference lies "in how you fiddle around with it."  Solo fiddling is the norm, though twin fiddling is represented in some North American, Scandinavian, and Irish styles.  The majority of fiddle music is dance music.  Violin music came to value a smoothness which fiddling, with its dance-driven clear beat, did not always follow - in situations that required greater volume, a fiddler  could push their instrument harder than could a violinist.  Following the folk revivals of the second half of the 20th century, however, it has become common for less formal situations to find large groups of fiddlers playing together -- see for example the Swedish Spelmanslag folk-musician clubs, and the world-wide phenomenon of Irish sessions.   Bows used in fiddling:   Most fiddling styles that use the standard violin also use the standard violin bow, the same as classical players. However, there are a few styles which use other bows. One notable example is the folk music from Hungary and Transylvania used in the táncház tradition.  I personally use a half-size bow, it's more nimble.   American fiddling, including Old Time fiddling, New England style fiddling, and contra dance fiddling generally, Cajun fiddling, Texas style fiddling, Contest Fiddling, Bluegrass fiddling, Arabic Music, Balkan Music, Táncház (Hungarian) and Romanian music, Newfoundland fiddle player Patrick MoranCanadian fiddling, including, Cape Breton fiddling, with a distinct Scottish and Acadian influence, Québécois fiddling, influenced from the Brittany area of northern France, Métis fiddling, of central and western Canada, with French influence, Newfoundland fiddling, with a strong Irish Sliabh Luachra style of playing, Maritime or Downeast style of fiddling which has many similarities to Cape Breton fiddling, English fiddling, French fiddling (including a rich Breton fiddling tradition), Irish fiddling including, among others, Clare fiddling, from the central west Donegal fiddling, from the northwest, Sligo fiddling, from a bit south of the northwest, Mexican fiddling from the Tierra Caliente region of Mexico. Nordic folk fiddling (including Hardanger fiddling), Peruvian Scottish fiddling, Slovenian fiddling, South Indian Carnatic fiddling, maintainance.  

   

  Wikipedia, Electric Violin: An electric violin refers to a standard violin fitted with an electric pickup of some type, or to an instrument purposely made to be electrified with built-in pickups, usually with a solid body and have been used in one form or another since the 1920s; jazz and blues artist Stuff Smith is generally credited as being one of the first performers to adapt pickups and amplifiers to violins. The Electro Stringed Instrument Corporation, National Valco and Vega attempted to sell electric violins in the 1930s and 1940s; Fender produced a small number of electric violins in the late 1950s. Larger scale manufacture of electric violins did not happen until the late 1990s. Acoustic violins may be used with an add-on piezoelectric bridge or body pickup. To avoid feedback from the resonances of the hollow body under high amplification on stage, many instruments have a solid body instead. The timbre (tone color) of a standard unamplified violin is due in large part to these resonances, however, so depending on how the signal is picked up, an electric violin may have a "rawer" or "sharper" sound than an acoustic instrument. This raw sound is often preferred in rock, pop, and some avant-garde genres. Several "semi-hollow" designs exist, containing a sealed but hollow resonating chamber that provides some approximation of acoustic violin sound while reducing susceptibility to feedback. Solid-body electric violins typically have a non-traditional, minimalistic design to keep weight down. They are often seen as "experimental" instruments, being less established than electric guitar or bass. Hence, there are many variations on the standard design, such as frets, extra strings, machine heads, "baritone" strings that sound an octave lower than normal, sympathetic strings, and more, without even going into the many electronic effects used to shape the raw sound to suit the player's preference. Acoustic 5-string violins exist, but it is much more common for an electric violin to have 5, 6 or 7 strings than an acoustic instrument. The typical solid body also accommodates the extra tension caused by more strings without stressing the instrument too much. Extra strings are usually a low C string for 5-strings, and a low C and high B or low F for 6, and a low C, F and B-flat (or high B) for 7. Electric violin signals usually pass through electronic processing, in the same way as an electric guitar, to achieve a desired sound. This could include delay, reverb, chorus, distortion, or other effects.

  Violin bows used by fiddlers are usually made from wood, but bows made from fiberglass and other materials are becoming more common.

• Wikipedia: A tribute to the best damn fiddle player in the world
• And a new concept were working on is the formation of a peace band, ...anti-war fundraising band, .... liberal, progressive causes only.