Re: New Fiddle Tunes
The thing about "fiddle tunes" is they have been around long enough for fiddle players from different regions to all have learned, a new fiddle tune will take years to gain that status, it's not so much a new, local, tune. It's about the amazing way in which these old tunes have been shared. Using new available media, the fiddle tune per se has become nomenclature as regards "old" tunes.
There are tons of new tunes which are shared through modern media, which has generated quite a few "new fiddle tunes."
I am not saying that you should not write new music at all, my banjo player has written some new tunes in the old style which he is sharing at jams around Michigan. Write, play, share, do as much of it as you can.
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
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