I had a wonderful time at Fiddle Camp this past August week.  It was easily the best I have ever attended in my six years of going and I am leaving tomorrow for another week.

Neal Pearlman, an incredible pianist and great teacher was instructing the pianos along with another teacher and so, for the first time we were able to have both a beginner and advanced piano group which was awesome!  In the advanced group we went over all kinds of crazy chord substitutions and funky rhythms.  It didn't quite push me out of my comfort zone so it could have been a little more advanced but I learned a lot nonetheless.  I also did some jamming and played for a couple contra dances and performed with a couple fiddle groups.  There is a growing demand for me as an accompanist which is great as I am starting to really get into that style of music.

I did some jamming with some talented musicians.  The track below is two tunes that Duncan Hall wrote.  We put together a pretty awesome arrangement which we performed for the Coffee House. Duncan is on cello, Noah Fishman on bass and me on piano.  I spent much of today composing some tunes which I hope to finish and be able to play with Duncan this next week of Fiddle Camp. Noah, unfortunately, won't be going as he is heading off to college.



I played with Chris Moriarty again this year.  We performed a new tune that he wrote.  I'll post it later.

Clayton