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Old-Time Fiddle Music
Friar the Fiddler Battle of San Pasqual re-enactment
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Larry Edwards, with Emma's Gut Bucket Band Balboa Park
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Friar the Pirate Fiddler Koehler Kraft Wooden Boat Festival
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Currently fiddling with
- Heritage (fiddle tunes and songs of the 18th and early 19th centuries)
- Corps of Rediscovery (historical re-enactment, including songs and dance tunes of of the 18th & 19th centuries)
- Contra Notion (contra and square dance)
- F Group (old-time fiddle, bluegrass)
- various pick-up bands for paying gigs
- formerly with Pick of the Lizard, The More the Merrier, Curly Creek String Band, and others
Jam Sessions
Compositions
Recordings/videos
Fiddlin' Friar YouTube Video Channel
- Squirrel Heads & Gravy - Corps of Rediscovery with Corps of Rediscovery
- Walking in My Sleep, Pick of the Lizard, 2009
- Rockingham Cindy/Sugar Hill, Pick of the Lizard, 2009
- Hunting the Buffalo/Benton's Dream, The Usual Suspects, 2009
- Snake River Reel/Buck Mountain, The Usual Suspects, 2009
- Dinah/Sandy Boys, The Usual Suspects, 2009
- Clairemont Polka, aka Grandfather's Polka and Clarinet Polka, Emma's Gutbucket Band, 2009
- Spellbound Waltz played on Grandpa Edwards' fiddle; Spellbound Waltz copyright 2006, Larry M Edwards
Discography
- The Musical History Tour: Songs and Dance Tunes of the Early American Frontier, Heritage, fiddle, 2011
- The Mo' Beddah Band, fiddle
- Become as Little Children, Roger and Janice Maddy, bass, 1981
- Place of My Dreams, Roger and Janice Maddy, Voyager VRLP 324-S, bass, 1978
- Tenino Old Time Music Festival: 1975-1976-1977, Voyager Records, VRLP 321-S, LP, trk #A.08, bass
- This Is Loretta, Loretta Brank, Old Sounds, USR 8326, bass, 1975
- National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest, Jesse Polka, Mark O'Connor, bass
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Heritage
The Pandemic Sessions
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I've been fiddling since 1974, getting my start with the Washington Old Time Fiddlers Association and later joining the California Old Time Fiddlers Association, San Diego Chapter.
I made the annual pilgrimage to Weiser, Idaho, for the National Old Time Fiddlers' Contest for 16 years. Influential fiddlers: Benny Thomasson, Clark Kessinger, Dick Barrett, Tommy Jarrell, Cyrill Stinnett, Charlie Walden, Mark O'Connor, (Uncle) Gary Lee Moore, John Francis, Bob Shields, Kenneth Brank, Dan Levenson and many others, including a couple of fiddlers who don't receive enough recognition, Marc Rennard and Mark Tamsula.
I play an old fiddle (c. 1820, originally Baroque-style violin). It's something of an ugly duckling and violin appraisers, once they stop laughing, tell me it's a worthless piece of junk. But I like the way it sounds and that's all that matters to me.
I compose fiddle tunes when the muse awakens. The most popular of my tunes is "Manitoulin Thunder," which struck me during a vengeful thunder storm while my wife, Janis, and I were visiting our friend Ivan Harwood at his summer home on Manitoulin Island in Ontario, Canada.
I also pluck the doghouse bass and can manage basic chords on a guitar. Playing the bass, I recorded with Roger and Janice Maddy and the Curly Creek String Band as well as Loretta Brank and Mark O'Connor.
Copyright © 1994-, Larry M Edwards
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