The accompanying slide show has many fabulous musicians standing in awe. Jesse McReynolds (Bluegrass mandolinist), after hearing Mark play guitar, is quoted as saying: "I hope this kid doesn't take up the mandolin!" I recognized Tony Rice in the background.
Hokey dokie, I found her name in a more recent YT clip, very talented young lady. Annie is most definitely a career to follow, IMHO. I love how she stands on tippy toes while foot scrolling for some phantom sustain pedal. No one is having more fun than she is.
Annie Staninec
At about 0:37, does she say "Faster!" Wow, girl, I want the rosin concession.
Here's Annie playing the ubiquitous (that's left coast Canada-speak, eh?) "Orange Blossom Special". Some good Samaritan cyphered her age from clues, she's now 17 years old. I'll be watching this little girl!
Thanks for that live clip of Mark playing at the National Flatpicking contest. I have the studio version on CD.
Mac,
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To be expected from the artist who coined the term for his music.
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It was actually David Grisman who coined the term Dawg Music to describe the style of music his band played. David's nickname was Dawg. His guitar player was Mark O’Connor. When Mark left he was replaced by Tony Rice.
Since Tony wasn’t used to playing that style he was given lessons by jazz guitar great John Carlini.
I’ve always loved playing Dawg music. On my Soundcloud clip we played several Grisman songs on that radio show.
Mark also learned Bluegrass fiddling at the feet of Doc Watson a blind flat-picking guitar virtuoso.
I may have relayed this tidbit about Mark before (keep your receipts handy) but Mark had a very unorthodox method of holding his fiddle. When seated, he would pull the butt-end (Mods, that's not profanity. Holster them shootin' arns pawdna!) firmly into his gut then lay forward over it's length and play the snot out of it.
...Mark had a very unorthodox method of holding his fiddle. When seated, he would pull the butt-end (Mods, that's not profanity. Holster them shootin' arns pawdna!) firmly into his gut then lay forward over it's length and play the snot out of it.
There is a history to that, Don.
Dates back to the first use of the violin over across the pond, actually.
There is also a fiddling tradition around the method, dates back before Bluegrass was even called Bluegrass.
My paternal grandfather played a fiddle that he made himself using woods found near his birthplace in Tennessee, with hand tools, to include his cherished and always very sharp old Case pocket knife.
He played by holding the fiddle with the end of the neck pointing downwards towards the floor and the bottom bout of the fiddle pressing into his chest area. The F holes faced outwards as he would bow across his and the fiddles front.
Actually made a better way for the fiddle to be heard in the barn dances and outdoor picnic venues those old guys played, since things like microphones, pickups and PA systems were not even yet a dream.
I've seen paintings from Europe, old paintings, that depict the minstrel bands and the fiddle being held way down below facing outwards rather than under the chin facing upwards.
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The word fiddle is also used for instruments of several hundred years ago which developed into the violin. These instruments varied a lot from one country to another and one time to another. They were of different shapes and sizes, and even had many different names. Often they were held against the chest instead of being tucked under the chin.
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