What a treat! Never seen Jay Belt fiddling. I got the album "Fiddling Jay Belt" from the public library in my first year of fiddling. Though the percussion was a bit heavy the fiddling and tunes were fantastic. I learned Cricket On The Hearth, Eighth Of January, Diana Waltz by ear and still remember them today! Would love to find a digital or streaming version someday.
Funny Memory: Here in CT/USA, around 1980-81, I taught elementary music, and I was personally interested in the whole "traditional folk scene". In the Hartford Public Library, I found a 16mm film about the West Coast folk scene that looked interesting for my students to watch. I recall some memorable scenes of the Sweet's Mill campouts. It was a very good chance for my students to see people playing and singing the styles that I often played recordings of in class. Thankfully, I fired up the projector and previewed the film after school, primarily listening to the musical aspects. Although I was also doing desk work at the same time, something caught my eye! It turned out that here was a 6-7 second skinny dipping scene during one of the songs! Since I still wanted to show the film, I figured out exactly where the scene occurred. During every class I would walk over to the projector and mumble something about technical troubles, then suddenly turn down the "brightness" knob at precisely the correct time. Worked like a charm! It would surely have been a problem if my 6th graders reported that Mr Carbonneau was showing them movies of naked hippies! Perhaps it would interest some of you that we have had a group here in the Hartford CT area for 50+ years called the "Portable Folk Festival". The origin of our name is lost to the ages, but i would bet that it comes from this West Coast gang. In fact, when Jim Ringer and Mary McCaslain played at our local "Sounding Board" coffeehouse in the early 80s, Jim made a comment, "Hmmmm I hear that you have a group here called "The Portable Folk Festival" ..... Such a catchy name! (eye roll)." Mary gave him a "shut up" look, and he sheepishly chuckled like he was being naughty. (As a member of the group he referenced, I remembered this quick exchange.) There is an audio tape of that concert floating around somewhere here in CT. I had it for a while on cassette.
We only filmed the Main Stage at that event. If you are going to the August Festival, and we see you out-and-about, we would be happy to film you doing a song.
Sorry to say, but it all sounds the same, a boring toy pling-pling-pling with no tonal differences. After listening for a few minutes, the pling-pling sound and frequency (without any sort of "bassline") are making me quite nervous.
Here's a song suggestion, Emmylou Harris is singing in it,- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-r7OUxw26KL0.html&ab_channel=TheBootleggers-Topic
I cant get it through my mind, Ron is still here!!! He never played the same way twice and thats a fact. I miss the hell out of him, he was for sure my brother, cant wait to see you again!!
