Michigan Fiddlers

A Study of Michigan's Folk Music Heritage
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Articles

 
  • Trae's Michigan Fiddle Manifesto, by Trae McMaken.

 

  • Chip Walker and the Fisher Strike Orchestra. By Eliot A. Singer.

 

  • How to Start Figuring out What "Michigan Fiddle Style" Is. By Eliot A. Singer.

 

  • Cub Berdan Overview. By Jim McKinney.

 

  • Michigan Fiddle Tunes from South of the Border. By Glenn Hendrix.

 

  • Fiddling Poetry from OMFA Publications: Revealing How Michigan Fiddlers Thought and Felt. Compiled for web by Trae McMaken.

 

  • Who is Lon Allen? Photographs of a Fiddler's Life in Iron County, Michigan, 1937. Contributed by Trae McMaken.

 

  • Henry and Clara Ford's "Deportment in Dancing." Contributed by Glenn Hendrix, with thanks to Glen Morningstar.

 

  • Patrick Bonner: History and Interviews. By Glenn Hendrix.

 

  • Otto and Marguerite Wood: Dance Musicians and Callers. By Glenn Hendrix.

 

  • A Written Excercise Towards an Understanding of Stylistics and Regionalism in Michigan Fiddling. By Trae McMaken

 

 

  • Reflections on Fiddle and Dance in Early 19th Century Detroit: The French Community. By Trae McMaken

 

 

  • Fiddling in L'Arbre Croche (Harbor Springs,MI) in the 1870s-1880s: a Settler's Account. By Trae McMaken

 

 

  • A Black String Band and Vaudeville Tent Show from Mecosta County, Michigan ca. 1900. By Trae McMaken

 

 

  • Border Fiddling: The St. Clair River of Michigan and Ontario. By Trae McMaken

 

 

 

 

 

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Recent Posts

  • Eliot Singer's Response to Trae's Manifesto, with follow-up from Trae.
  • Trae's Michigan Fiddle Manifesto
  • County Histories Series Part 11: Saginaw and Environs.
  • County Histories Series Part 10: Detroit and Grosse Point
  • County Histories Series Part 9: Muskegon and Allegan Counties
  • County Histories Part 8: City of Flint and Genesee County
  • County Histories Series: Part 7: Berrien and Van Buren Counties
  • County Histories Series Part 6 (enough Roman numerals): Kalamazoo County
  • County Histories Series: Part V: Hillsdale County
  • County Histories Series: Part IV: Newaygo, Eaton, and Calhoun Counties
  • County Histories Series: Part III: Leelanau and Grand Traverse Region
  • County Histories Series: Part II: Antrim
  • County Histories Series: Introduction and Part I
  • Excerpts from the "Posen Fiddlers" Episode of Down Home Dairyland by Jim Leary and Richard March
  • Summer agenda
  • It's a Good Day for Michigan Fiddle: Paul Gifford's Website!
  • The Dr. James P. Leary 1989 Michigan Fieldwork
  • Chip Walker and the Fisher Strike Orchestra
  • Band Spotlight: Nick and His Cornhuskers, a Long-Lived Modern and Old Time Thumb Dance Band
  • Band Spotlight: Rem Wall and the Green Valley Boys: Michigan Country Stars
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