Fiddlers of the… Farmers’ Market?
July 31, 2021: Patrons and vendors of the Webster Joe Obbie Farmers’ Market enjoy old-time fiddle music.
July 31, 2021: Patrons and vendors of the Webster Joe Obbie Farmers’ Market enjoy old-time fiddle music.
It just so happens that if you start at any note, and go down a fifth (or up a fourth) to the next note, and continue to move down a fifth or up a fourth, eventually you get right back to where you started from!
“Old-time” usually refers to music that evolved in isolated regions of the Southern Appalachians and other places in the southern U.S., based partly on tunes from the British Isles and on the rhythm of the banjo, which was developed from a West African instrument. Old-time music predates bluegrass.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the “Cakewalk” was a dance sensation that swept the country. It was a couples’ dance that very often took the form of a contest.