Musical Inspiration – Jaco Pastorius 

Musical Inspiration – Jaco Pastorius 

  I talked in my last musical inspiration about how you should always look for inspiration from musicians that don’t play your primary instrument. The reason is that sometimes being inspired by musicians that don’t play your instrument can lead to an...
Musical Inspiration – Victor Wooten

Musical Inspiration – Victor Wooten

Over the years since I started playing the fiddle, I have listened to a lot of fiddlers for inspiration, and it has served me well. I definitely think that you should see what is being done on your instrument before you switch it up and try new things. But once...
Canadian Grand Masters and more…

Canadian Grand Masters and more…

Canadian Grand Masters and more… Over the summer, since I wasn’t in school, I had lots of time to do festivals, gigs, camps and just fun jams with other musicians. It’s always sad when the summer ends, but at least we can still reminisce, so let me tell you...
Musical Inspirations – June 2018 – Trent Freeman

Musical Inspirations – June 2018 – Trent Freeman

For those of you who don’t know who Trent Freeman is, he is an amazing fiddler/musician. Trent has traveled the world playing with the group The Fretless, he also is part of a duo act called Speaker Face, in which they cover a lot of techno style music with some...
Musical Inspiration – Oliver Schroer

Musical Inspiration – Oliver Schroer

Oliver Schroer Many things inspire many different people, and our inspirations will change from day to day. One of my  long-time and growing inspirations is Oliver Schroer. Oliver Schroer is a fiddle player, or 5 string player, if you will, and he...
Photos from Dirk Heydemann

Photos from Dirk Heydemann

Thanks to Dirk Heydemann of HA Photography www.haphotography.com for the amazing photos from the Fiddelium concert on May 5, 2017.   [Show slideshow] 1 2 3 ►...