Re: Online percussive dance tutorials?
Originally Posted by
Gunnar
Thanks Ranald! It would be helpful if you could point out a few very helpful videos for beginners, but I can also just wade through a bunch. DVDs are not what I'm looking for, online courses would be better. Thanks
I'm afraid that I don't have much experience with these videos. You'll have to have a look and see what you think. Louise Arsenault (Acadian) from PEI is an exciting dancer, as is Natalie MacMaster from Cape Breton. They're both outstanding fiddlers too, but I don't know much about them as teachers except that my brother says that Natalie gives good fiddle workshops. Also, April Verch in Ottawa (dancer and fiddler too). There are plenty of others besides. My daughter took lessons from Gilles Roy in the Ottawa Valley, one of my favourites -- he has a much more traditional style (not influencesd by tap dancing) than most local step dancers. He doesn't have much online presence though. He's the old guy with the bodhran. Here he is with his troupe, for your entertainment. If you see any particular videos that interest you and want to ask my opinion, send me a personal message.
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
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