fiddlers

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A mountain fiddler.

  • 6 older comments, and then…
  • Julio Féllix Caballero said:
    Excelente foto de suaves contrastes,aunque habría estado mejor si no le hubiesen "cortado" los pies...
  • Melinda Young Stuart said:
    Typo in the "Notes", I think. Probably supposed to read 'Barnhill Studios, Asheville, NC, 1920'. Wonderful photograph! Too bad we don't know who he is--
  • John Alger said:
    The Barnhill collection is at Mars Hill. They ay have subject notes there.
  • Melinda Young Stuart said:
    Yes, but this is in the NYPL collection!
  • John Alger said:
    True, but he printed these for sale and MH may have an anotated copy.

Confederate Veterans Convention [SILENT]

  • Florida Memory said:
    And now, the same video with better picture quality!
  • David Foster said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Veterans of the American Civil War, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • David Foster said:
    The dancing appears to be “buck dancing” or clogging? And the only video I've ever seen of authentic civil war musicians (fiddlers). "Clogging is a type of folk dance with roots in traditional European dancing from the British Isles, early African-American dance, and traditional Cherokee dance[1] in which the dancer's footwear is used musically by striking the heel, the toe, or both in unison against a floor or each other to create audible percussive rhythms.[2] Clog is from a Gaelic word meaning "time." [3][3] Clogging was social dance in the Appalachian Mountains as early as the 1700s.... The term 'buck', as in buck dancing, is traceable to the West Indies and is derived from a Tupi Indian word denoting a frame for drying and smoking meat; the original 'po bockarau', or buccaneers were sailors who smoked meat and fish after the manner of the Indians.[2] Another source states that the word bockorau can be traced to the "Angolan" word "buckra', and was used to refer to white people,[6][3] which is disputed.[4] Eventually the term came to describe Irish immigrant sailors whose Jig dance was known as 'the buck.'" [5] One source states that buck dancing was the earliest combination of the basic shuffle and tap steps performed to syncopated rhythms in which the accents are placed not on the straight beat, as with the jigs, clogs, and other dances of European origin, but on the downbeat or offbeat, a style derived primarily from the rhythms of African tribal music.[7] Buck dancing was popularized in America by minstrel performers in the late nineteenth century. Many folk festivals and fairs utilize dancing clubs or teams to perform both Buck and regular clogging for entertainment. Traditional Appalachian clogging is characterized by loose, often bent knees and a "drag-slide" motion of the foot across the floor, and is usually performed to old-time music." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clogging

Robert Blackwelder playing the fiddle: Dundee, Florida

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  • productive side said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called soulful group, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • productive side said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called a new world, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • productive side said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called piece of heaven, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • productive side said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Music,Quotes,Lyrics,etc of the World, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • caoseducado said:
    Lovely!

Jefferies family of musicians

  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    Four fiddlers
  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    Jefferies married Arena Mary Massie, a harpist, at Trinity Church of England, Marylebone, on 3 June 1871 and they sailed for Brisbane soon after. He farmed briefly and unsuccessfully near Gatton and made his first professional appearance as a violinist in Brisbane on 1 February 1872 with Henrietta Mallalieu as accompanist. The two later started the long-lived Monday Popular Concerts which introduced new music to Brisbane. In 1876 Jefferies formed a string quartet and, when his children grew up, a family quartet. With James Brunton Stephens he published an Australian national anthem which won some acceptance. Source: adb.anu.edu.au/biography/jefferies-richard-thomas-6830