Re: [Harp-L] Winslow as a concert performer

[icemanle@xxxxxxx]

 Nicely done. I know how much fun it is to perform. I also know how much fun it is to be standing in the middle of the music and have it wash over you on stage, surrounded by it and adding to it. Even though you were drowned out at the end, you were still in the thick of it.

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>
To: harp-l <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, Nov 5, 2009 3:19 pm
Subject: [Harp-L] Winslow as a concert performer










I write a lot about harmonica but perhaps few of you on harp-l have heard me 
play.

Below is a link to a concert performance I did in May 2009, with a violinist, 
Tuula Tossavainen Cotter and guitarist Ehlert Lassen, with the orchestra-sized 
San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers joining in at the end.

Tuula Tossavainen Cotter is a classically trained violinist who is very much 
into Celtic and Finnish fiddle tunes and plays some jazz as well (we did a duo 
set at Slide Man Slim's Jazz Harmonica Summit in August (http://jazzharmonicasummit.com/) 
- more about that when the DVD is closer to release. Tuula and I are developing 
some repertoire that will be a unique blend of different styles.

The linked performance starts with a slow air called Mouth of Keswick, which I 
play in G on a Low D chromatic (a modified Hohner 270 with a stainless steel 
comb), then moves to a lively Finnish tune called Vesivehmaan Jenka, which I 
play on a Seydel Concerto in G (similar to a Hohner Auto Valve). We finish up 
with the large group playing a French Canadian reel called La Grande Chaine. The 
guy in the kilt is Alasdair Fraser, one of the world's top Scottish traditional 
musicians and the founder and leader of the San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers.

I hope you like it. Here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsJkRcwZkCw

Winslow

Winslow Yerxa

Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5


      
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