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

[EGS1217@xxxxxxx]

That's odd. I didn't think he was 'drowned out' at all.  I  focused in on 
Winslow  and could still clearly hear his harp from when he  switched to the 
2nd instrument right up through to the end. Just played it back  again and 
made note of where I could hear him  all the way through  5:04, 5:24, 6:30 
and so on up till the end of the performance. But then, I have  Bose speakers 
for my computer. Perhaps you were confused by his  perfect playing in unison 
with the violinist.
 
 
 
"Message: 8
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:13:31 -0500
From:  icemanle@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Winslow as a concert performer
To:  winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx, harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx

Even though you were drowned  out at the end, you were still in the thick 
of  it.(snipped)


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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