Re: [Harp-L] Violin and Harmonica

[Grant Dermody <gdermody@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have played quite a bit with fiddle players, mostly old time and Cajun and creole. 
We put out a record a while back called The Improbabillies. You can find it on CD Baby.
All the best
Grant

On Aug 27, 2013, at 7:43 AM, Gary Mulholland <g.e.mulholland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I play in an Irish band and we have recently added a fiddle player to our
> line up, she`s classically trained and is picking up the reels and jigs
> very quickly and they sound great. But more and more in the slower songs
> like " ride on " by Christy Moore I`m just finding out how magical the
> violin and the harmonica can sound together. Weve been working on the
> solo`s together with the violin taking the lead solo and the harmonica
> harmonising over the top of it, then switching letting harmonica doing the
> lead solo. Ive been using one of Richards patches, delay and reverb. We had
> our first gig last weekend with this new line up and the audience loved the
> violin, harmonica solo`s. Have any of you played with violinists before ?
> I`d love to hear from any that have as I`m finding the 2 instruments blend
> beautifully and I`d never really thought of violin and harp soloing in
> tandem being such a force in a band.
> I`m kicking myself for not getting any recordings done but we have our next
> gig in a couple of weeks and I`ll post some video then
> 
> Gary