WELCOME to Virtual Lark!
Hi everyone, just a quick announcement to let you know that Perry Stauffer and Dani Joy will be leading the song circle tonight (Sunday at 6pm PST). Celia Ramsay unfortunately will not be able to make it. But we are thrilled to have Dani and Perry be there to take over!
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Marla Fibish here! I’ll be teaching the Irish music class each day at 2:00. I’ve posted recordings and transcriptions of the tunes we’ll be exploring here: Virtual Lark Feb 2024 Marla Fibish If you get familiar with them ahead of time, you’ll get so much more from the class! See you soon!
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Ukulele with Dani and Perry
Hey everyone,
You can download the material for our classes at the following link: VLark 2024 Ukulele Material. We are still adding material, so if you don't see a folder with the course name on it that means we are still awaiting upload.
Looking forward to hanging with you from beautiful Portland Oregon!
Dani Joy & Perry
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Hi folks, this is Devon Léger and I’ll be leading the French-Canadian session on Sat evening at 7pm with my band La Famille Léger! If you want a tunebook, we’ll try to play a number of tunes from my dad’s book, “La Boîte à Pitons”. He developed it for great Québécois/Acadian accordion tunes, so it’s a fun book!
http://www.lafamilleleger.com/la-bote-pitons
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Swedish Folk Music with Amy!
Hey all, here’s a link to a google drive folder where I will put resources that I share in our classes!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TMyOsKSq0hH7VzC7y5vXIIPl3CtWZdVG?usp=sharing
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David Brown here - here is the Google drive for tonight's French session with Fete Musette Ensemble
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1A2P1Uy-HHQmEOatz8QSnz8ZvtUBNSe-R?usp=sharing
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Christa Burch’s Bodhrán Class
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IB4fLAjFErbbwdNSz_4E9uYfkrvBeOIN?usp=sharing
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Hi Everybody,
The PDF for today’s Ukulele fingerstyle blues class is now available here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GLNXtA8nJujXOuPPBDJEYroMt0rRckJj?usp=sharing
Cheers,
Perry
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Haitian Drumming with Shawn Myers (PDF)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1e8l4h4S0kX1vvBQLuj-msbFzlFxJQG_K?usp=sharing
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Hi folks, this is Devon Léger again. Big thanks to Lark Camp for having me out, be sure to donate to them! Here’s the link to my YouTube channel that has most of the tunes I taught this weekend. Each tune has it played at speed, then talks about its history and showcases the original source, then has it played nice and slow to learn and follow along:
https://www.youtube.com/@devonleger7469/videos
Here’s my album too as La Famille Léger, which has a number of the tunes as well:
https://lafamilleleger.bandcamp.com/album/letoile-du-nord
Here’s the tunebook that my dad put together, it’s free on our website:
http://www.lafamilleleger.com/la-bote-pitons
And if you want to learn more about Acadian fiddling, we run a website for that with lots of info including bios, recordings, photos, and histories of fiddlers. Also tune transcriptions:
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Devon again, my dad transcribed the tune I taught today, “La Marmotteuse” if anyone still wants the sheet music:
Oh cool, big thanks to Helen for transcribing the other tune I taught on Sunday, Reel de la Tasserie. Here it is:
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David Brown here
Links from Devon Léger
Here is a collection of tunes taught & links posted during Devon's classes gleaned from the chats:
Friday
Reel de la Rivière à la Truite
Gilles Losier
Les Menteries
Normand Miron
Demonstrated:
Reel à Théotime à Six-Pouces
Eloi LeBlanc; Memramcook, New Brunswick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSZ-ty2DrOs
Saturday
Reel de la Tasserie
Richard Anglehart of Gaspé, Québec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIxOog3qUjI&t=183s
La Turlutte - from a recording of Entourloupe
Sunday:
Gigue à Japhette - from the fiddler Ferdinand Dionne
From the little village of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière
La Marmotteuse
Reel des Acadiens
both learned from Barachois in Prince Edward Island
The recordings of Barachois (PEI) are available at Distribution Plages.
Both tunes are on this recording (Party Acadien)
A slightly different version of La Marmotteuse (from Hermas Rehel) are on p199 (#74) in Danse ce Soir and on pg139 of "1000 airs du Québec et de l’Amérique francophone" by Olivier Demers book
https://www.melbay.com/Products/98118/danse-ce-soir--fiddle-and-accordion-music-of-quebec.aspx
https://espaceparallele.ca/en/product/1000-airs-du-quebec-tome-1/
Devon's YouTube channel - many "tune of the week" videos
https://www.youtube.com/@devonleger7469/videos
including:
The REAL "André à Toto" (Reel à Belzébuth)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g09S6nLlO8I
La Marmotteuse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWj71H_8oeE&t=402s
Other useful links:
http://www.lafamilleleger.com/
especially
http://www.lafamilleleger.com/la-bote-pitons
(a collection of accordion-friendly Québécois and Acadian tunes that Louis put together for Lark Camp about 10 years ago). You will find many of the tunes taught or played in the Saturday evening session here.
https://lafamilleleger.bandcamp.com/album/letoile-du-nord
https://www.acadianfiddle.com/
A site created by Louis & Devon which includes bio info and source recordings of a number of Acadian fiddlers.
Some current Acadian musicians:
La Famille LeBlanc (Robin LeBlanc) (New Brunswick)
https://lafamilleleblanc.bandcamp.com
Vishten (PEI & Magdalen Islands)
https://vishten.net/biography/