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:

www.acadianfiddle.com

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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

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52e9610ce4b0d9a9f3c18114/1396143555023-Z0HM5Z1ZYAX3XDFSYWWY/Rivi%C3%A8re+%C3%A0+la+Truite.jpg?format=1500w

Les Menteries

Normand Miron

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52e9610ce4b0d9a9f3c18114/1396141670301-UVF5AVBV3QXXO2VGOSEE/Les+Menteries.jpg?format=1500w

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

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52e9610ce4b0d9a9f3c18114/1396141517669-HDF8A561GFF1QJN8TSF9/La+Turlutte+.jpg?format=750w

Sunday:

Gigue à Japhette - from the fiddler Ferdinand Dionne

From the little village of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière

La Marmotteuse

Reel des Acadiens

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52e9610ce4b0d9a9f3c18114/1396142562659-LR3JCZITWPN70ZA5Q8OQ/Reel+des+Acadiens.jpg?format=750w

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)

https://www.propagandedistribution.com/products/barachois-party-acadien-cd?_pos=4&_sid=9eb00ed50&_ss=r

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