Soundpost Sep-Oct 2015.cdr - California State Old Time Fiddlers
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Soundpost Sep-Oct 2015.cdr - California State Old Time Fiddlers
t e ssociation ifornia S Cal ta me Fid dl A rs ld Ti eO Sep / Oct 2015 The Official Publication of the California State Old-Time Fiddlers’ Association Coming Events Contest Results Weaverville Open, September 12, 2015 Peewee 1. Annie Culbreath, Chico 4. Joli Einem, McKinleyville 5. Christopher Culbreath, Chico Junior Junior 1. Sophie Peña, Palo Cedro 2. Miles Quale, Alameda 3. Monica McDonough, Bangor 4. Teo Quale, Alameda 5. Cate Huiras, Chico Junior Twin Fiddle 1. Cate Huiras/Monica McDonough Junior 1. Jet Glover, Bayside 2. Elizabeth McDonough, Bangor 3. Jacob Alston, Eureka 4. Emily Alldrin, Palo Cedro 5. Olivia Alldrin, Palo Cedro Adult 1. Darin Smith, Davis 2. Christina Thompson, Davis 3. Sheri Eby, Redding Senior 1. Starr McMullen, Corvallis 2. Kathy Kampschmidt, Willows 3. Nicki Carlisle, Shingletown 4. Christina Morales, Corning 5. Randy Warner, Washoe Valley NV Open 1. Tristan Clarridge, Kensington 2. Celeste Peña, Palo Cedro 3. Darren Reitan, Red Bluff Adult Twin Fiddle 1. Hughie Smith/Tristan Clarridge 2. Elizabeth McDonough/Christopher Culbreath 3. Nicki Carlisle/Kathy Kampschmidt Adult Picking 1. Christopher Culbreath, Chico 2. Eric Anderson, Lincoln 3. Brendan McDonough, Bangor Junior Picking 1. Teo Quale, Alameda 2. Jillian Alldrin, Palo Cedro 3. Katie Braito, Cottonwood 4. Blake Lerstand, Willows Peewee Piano 1. Hayden Harrigan, Willows 2. Bailey Lerstang, Willows 3. Brooklyn Hobbs, Willows 2. Tyler Braito, Cottonwood 3. Emily Alldrin, Palo Cedro 4. Allie Braito, Cottonwood Adult Piano 1. Anneliese Alldrin, Palo Cedro 2. Celeste Peña, Palo Cedro Accompanist 1. Tristan Clarridge, Kensington 2. Eric Anderson, Lincoln 3. Al Myers, Redding Judges Tristan Clarridge Starr McMullen Sheri Neal Nick Righos Darin Smith Hughie Smith Picking Judges Tristan Clarridge Lee Hayashida Nick Righos Youngest Pianist Kendall Harrigan, Willows Piano Judges Jill Cox Kathy Kampschmidt Hughie Smith Intermediate Piano 1. Victoria Cox, Weaverville MC Tex Ash, Red Bluff District 1 Report District 1 fiddlers participated in two county events this fall. The first was the parade at the Palermo Community Festival. Fiddlers entertained spectators from a special trailer pulled by a pick up truck in the parade. They then performed at the Salmon Festival in Oroville. It is always nice to play there in the park, with an excellent sound system provided by the event organizers. Fiddlers also play for the residents of Country Crest retirement living once a month in Oroville. That is always a favorite event. Workshops continue on the first and third Mondays of each month at the Bolt Museum in Oroville, 1650 Broderick St. Activities begin at 7 p.m. Our monthly fiddle jams are held the fourth Sunday of the month at the Feather River Senior Center, 1335 Myers St., Oroville, 2-5 pm. Join us in a circle jam, and try your hand at performing for the crowd later in the afternoon. Most people bring a snack to share. Coffee and tea are provided for a small donation. Newcomers are always welcome, so come on down and jam with us. District 2 Report Membership in District ll has nearly doubled this year with a host of new members forming their own sub-chapter in Tuolumne County. Dave Rainwater, recently called up to rejoin the New Christy Minstrels after a ten year hiatus, has been the sparkplug. Jamie Coffey is the subchapter's secretary. District ll lost one of its most active members recently with the death of Horace T. Riddle. Tom was known statewide backing up a multitude of contestants over the years. He was a CSOTFA Life Member. Tom will be missed greatly and our sympathies go out to Rosemary. Monthly jam have continued at Sonora, Fresno, Madera Ranchos and Armona. District 3 Report The 39th Annual “Fiddlin' Down the Tracks” that was held at Country Oaks Bap st Church this year was a HUGE success. This is our second year that we were welcomed with open arms from Country Oaks Bap st Church since moving from the West Park Gymnasium on “D” Street. This move has been an acous cally and comfort improvement (for those who remember the echo and folding chairs). Fiddlers from Tehachapi, Bakersfield, Fresno, Hanford, Encinitas, and Moorpark came to play and entertain the audience. Ka e Jones of Tehachapi was presented on Saturday with the Howdy Forrester Scholarship Award and a check for $500 for college. Congratula ons, Ka e! The divisions that competed on Friday night were the Senior, Senior-Senior, and Adult Band Scramble. Gayel Pitchford of Tehachapi was the top winner for the Senior Division (Ages 50-69) and Willie Randal of El Cajon won the Senior-Senior Division (Ages 70+). Willie was also awarded the “Oldest Fiddler” medal at the young age of 85. The Adult Band Scramble winning band was compiled of Joe Hunsinger, Chuck Murtomaki, Anne e Scherr, and Wayne Agnew. Saturday's compe on started early with the Tehachapi Strings Orchestra providing the opening ceremony. The first divisions to play were the Small Fry (Ages 8 and under), Junior-Junior (Ages 9-12), and Junior (Ages 13-17). There was s ff compe on and great music played. The winner from each of the divisions were Daniel Cro y (Small Fry), Nathan Cro y (Junior-Junior), and Shira Ellisman (Junior). Daniel Cro y of Fresno was awarded the “Youngest Fiddler” at the age of 6 years old! The Saturday a ernoon compe tors kept the audiences toes a-tappin' with more music and entertainment. The Adult division was won by Cristelle Ellison-Gillis (Bakersfield) and the Open division was won by Stacey Snodgrass (Hanford). Stacey Snodgrasss of Hanford and Hughie Smith of Bakerfield walked away with the win by almost 30 points. The Junior Novelty division are those instruments that aren't a fiddle, banjo, guitar, or mandolin. Joey Wallek of Tehachapi won this division playing the piano. Piper Meisler of Tehachapi played the cello and placed first in the Cello/Bass division. The new “Jim Smith” Junior Picking division was won by B.J. Zheng of Tehachapi on his mandolin. The Open Picking division was taken by Jack Pierce of Bakersfield on his banjo. The first place winners of each of the fiddling divisions then compete against each other for the tle of Grand Champion. Shira Ellisman of Encinitas fiddled her way to win this top spot. Shira was then cer fied by the California State Old-Time Fiddlers Associa on, District 3, to compete in the Na onal Fiddle Contest that is held is Weiser, Idaho. Our judges this year were Arthur Kee from Brentwood, Anita Marley of Pa erson, and Bill Whi ield also from Pa erson, California. A huge thanks goes out to them to travel from all over California to Tehachapi and support this event. For more informa on on how to support, join, or upcoming events please visit www.tehachapifiddlers.org or email Steve at cso a3.fi[email protected]. See next page for Contest Results 39th Annual "Fiddlin' Down The Tracks" Fiddle Contest Results Sept 18-19, 2015 Tehachapi, California Small Fry (under 8) Cello-Bass (Ages 17 and under) 1 Daniel Cro y – Fresno 1 Piper Meisler - Tehachapi 2 Ethan Yang – Tehachapi 2 Rebecca Carol - Tehachapi 3 Emilia Mar n – Tehachapi 3 Moriel Johnson - Tehachapi 4 Ka e Harris – Golden Hills Junior-Junior (Ages 9-12) 5 Molly Rijfcogel - Tehachapi 1 Nathan Cro y – Fresno 6 Tristan Crane - Tehachapi 2 Cathy Pierce – Bakersfield 7 Natalie Whiteside - Tehachapi 3 Elsa Cro y – Fresno 4 BJ Zheng – Tehachapi Junior Novelty (Ages 17 and under) 5 Abigail Halsey – Hanford 1 Joey Wallek – Tehachapi 6 Madisyn Allen – Hanford 2 Ka e Harris – Golden Hills 7 Penn Whiteside – Tehachapi 3 BJ Zheng – Tehachapi 8 Cora Sweeney – Tehachapi 4 Mallori Spears – Tehachapi 5 Piper Meisler – Tehachapi Junior (13-17) 6 Ka e Jones - Tehachapi 1 Shira Ellisman – Encinitas 2 Nick Pierce – Bakersfield Junior Picking (Ages 17 and under) 3 Joey Wallek – Tehachapi 1 BJ Zheng – Tehachapi 4 Molly Sponsler – Tehachapi 2 Joey Wallek – Tehachapi 5 Daniel Sponsler – Tehachapi 3 Mallori Spears – Tehachapi 6 Mallori Spears – Tehachapi 4 Ka e Jones – Tehachapi 7 Ka e Jones – Tehachapi 5 Nathan Cro y – Fresno 8 Frank Sponslor – Tehachapi Open Novelty (Any Age) Adult (Ages 19-49) 1 Hughie Smith – Bakersfield 1 Cristelle Ellison-Gillis – Bakersfield 2 Gayel Pitchford – Tehachapi 2 Kris n Honeycu – Tehachapi 3 Wayne Agnew - Moorpark Open (Any Age) 1 Stacey Snodgrass – Hanford 2 Hughie Smith – Bakersfield Senior (Ages 50-69) 1 Gayel Pitchford – Tehachapi 2 Jack Appel – Tehachapi 3 Patrick DeLuca – Clovis 4 Be y Gubler – Tehachapi 5 Anne e Scherr – Tehachapi Senior-Senior (Ages 70+) 1 Wille Randal – El Cajon 2 Joe Hunsinger – Canyon Country 3 Wayne Agnew – Moorpark 4 Fay Shanholtzer – Bakersfield 5 Tina Cunningham – Tehachapi Open Picking (Any Age) 1 Jack Pierce – Bakersfield 2 Hughie Smith – Bakersfield 3 Gayel Pitchford – Tehachapi 4 Wayne Agnew – Moorpark 5 Shira Ellisman – Encinitas Twin Fiddling 1 Hughie Smith/Stacey Snodgrass 2 Cathy Pierce/Nick Pierce 3 Ka e Jones/Molly Sponslor 4 Gayel Pitchford/Joey Wallek Youngest / Oldest Fiddler Daniel Cro y – 6 yrs Willie Randal – 85 yrs GRAND CHAMPION SHIRA ELLISMAN – ENCINITAS District 5 Report Our club was proud to honor Alta Peters, founder of our very successful youth scholarship program, for her 100th birthday at our September jam. To the best of anyone's knowledge she is the only member to reach the centennial mark in the club's nearly half century history. and piano and showed Alta how to chord. "But he Alta was born Sept. 2, 1915 in the hamlet of couldn't read a note of music and neither could Humphreys MO and grew up on a self-sustaining Dallas," she said. A friend gave Dallas a fiddle with farm. "The only things we didn't produce were a mouse hole in it, he patched it and then learned to white flour and sugar," she recalled. play, often performing at square dances. Alta still After high school, Alta passed the state exam to has that fiddle along with two Dallas built. Shortly teach all 8 grades in a one-room rural school. She after they came north, they heard about Old Time was also the fire starter, janitor and entertainer. Fiddlers and joined District 5. Dallas was among "We began with music every morning. I played a many fiddlers of that era with similar rural pump organ," she recalled. "Home on the Range" backgrounds where they constituted the local was a student favorite. musical entertainment. Those early District 5 In the mid 1930 she met her husband-to-be, Dallas fiddlers resurrected the tunes they learned growing Peters, the best friend of the boyfriend of one of up. For years, Alta was their designated piano her sisters, she said. Dallas was paid $1 a day so he accompanist. Like many fiddlers, Dallas also headed for California to try to do better. "We wrote played guitar. back and forth and in 1938 he came back to get As they grew older, Dallas and Alta decided that me," she said. "But I told him I had just signed a after the first of them died, the other would contract to teach another year of school. Come establish a scholarship fund to assure a constant back next year!" supply of young fiddlers to replace the older ones. He did and they married in 1939. Dallas became Dallas died in 1996 at age 82. Alta carried out their interested in law enforcement. Offered a choice wish. Soon lessons were expanded to cover other between the Los Angeles police department and the acoustic stringed instruments. California Highway Patrol, he opted for the police, In that time, countless children have taken worked 30 years and retired in 1972. A few years advantage of free beginning lessons, mostly from earlier, anticipating retirement, they bought a lot in Eric Anderson, who has won many top awards at a mobile home park off Interstate 80 above California and out-of-state contests and has served Auburn. One of Dallas' police buddies had retired as both district and statewide president of our there. She still lives there with her son, Michael, a organization. When Eric started fiddling as a retired special ed teacher. teenager, he had numerous "honorary Back in Missouri, Alta's dad was part of a band grandparents" who encouraged him. The last one called the Medicine Creek Owls. He played fiddle left is Alta. District 6 Report The California State Old Time Fiddlers Association, District 6 has continued with their busy schedule through September and October. With Summer beginning wind down and Fall in the air we have concluded the year with several outdoor events in addition to our usual first Sunday of the month event at the St. James Lutheran Church and the fourth Sunday of each month at the Millville Grange in Palo Cedro, where we feature a free concert by a local band and Open Mic for local musicians to share their talents. We have several of our members that have performed at the local Farmers Market, Sponsored by the Shasta Growers Association, in Redding on the first three Saturdays of each month. One of the highlights of September was seeing the Old Kennett String Band, made up of our President, Timothy Garrison, Publicity Chair, George Fredson, and members Amy Vogt and Carolyn Faubel, perform on stage at the McCloud Mountain Bluegrass Festival along with the Central Valley Boys and Paige Anderson and the Fearless Kin on Saturday, September 11th, then again at the the Honey Bee Festival, in Palo Cedro, the next day, Sunday September the 12th. Our members also provided music for the Grand Opening of the Lassen Landing Shopping Center near Shingletown, the Arts in the Park Festival in conjunction with the Ducky Derby festivities, in Redding, the Manton Apple Festival, the Heritage Days Festival at the Burney Falls State Park, and the Annual Fundraiser at the Wild Horse Sanctuary near Manton, California. In addition to all that we had members playing at fifty-four (YES - 54!) events in the Redding and Red Bluff area at local Assisted Living facilities and many other spots including the Veterans Home of California in Redding, Golden Umbrella Senior Center and Mercy Oaks Senior Residence Center. This year, the “Crown Jewel” of our events for District 6 took place at the end of the month when our members invested a great deal of their time and energy helping Tex and Sharon Ash with the 33rd Annual Western Open Fiddle Championships, October 22nd through the 24th, at the Red Bluff Elks Lodge. We provided the sound system and filled many of the volunteer positions to help make the event the huge success that it was. Again, Canadian fiddler Calvin Vollrath provided an amazing kick-off concert and all those participating in the contests were amazing beyond words. We hope many of you had the opportunity to attend and see first hand what District 6 helped put together for the enjoyment of so many Old Time Fiddle Lovers. With the Holiday Season just around the corner we would like to wish everyone the very best throughout the months of November and December and we hope you include some Old Time Fiddle Music along with your other holiday plans. You can keep an eye on our activities for District 6 by checking in with us and “friend us” on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/NorthstateFiddlers or visit us on our website at http://www.northstatefiddlers.com. District 7 Report CSOTFA District 7 Updates nd District 7 (San Diego County) continues to hold meetings on the 2 Sunday at Terrace Estates Clubhouse in Spring Valley, and on the 4th Sunday at Rancho San Diego Library in El Cajon, CA. In addition to our routine monthly gatherings, the season saw D7: · Kick off our second year of a joint program with the San Diego Unified (Elementary) School District This program involves D7 members voluntarily demonstrating and teaching fiddle tunes to beginning violin students at the schools (Thank you, Steve Millican, for the vision and initiative that helped bring this project to fruition). · Hold our first-of-three back-up guitar workshops (Thank you D7 President, Tom Dillon, for initiating and leading these workshops). As for future activities, D7 is: rd · Planning for the 3 Annual Julian Fiddle and Pickin’ Contest scheduled for early June, 2016. · Hosting a jam at this year’s Western Open Fiddle Contest (Complete with MOM’s Pies from Julian, CA). · Planning to hold an additional meeting each month for fiddlers in the northern part of San Diego County (folks from all over San Diego, Los Angeles and Orange Counties warmly invited!). D7 Proudly Notes: Willie Randal took first in the Senior-Senior Division, and Shira Ellisman took first in the Junior-Junior Division and won the Grand Championship at the 2015 Fiddlin’ Down the Tracks contest in Tehachapi, CA. Shira also won the Intermediate Fiddle Division at the recent 2015 Santa Barbara Fiddlers Convention. WAY TO GO WILLIE AND SHIRA! Willie District 9 Report Our new format of including a 'featured group' of musicians at our monthly jam sessions is working out very well and being enjoyed by our musicians as well as our music supporters and guests. Several of the featured groups are members of our own District. We have quite a 'library' of talented people. A favorite was the performance of AJ Lee, a young lady whom we have watched grow up in District 9 and become an outstanding musician and vocal performer. She is very busy performing at East Coast fes vals and in many other places including Nashville, TN, wri ng songs and crea ng tunes. She has a CD out and it is noted on our website. Another of our featured group was 'Common Thread' from Tracy, CA. Outstanding performance and we've requested they come back soon. Our President, Tom Clausen, with backup from banjo man, Steve Goldfield, brought us a medley of Quadrilles, from the early days of fiddle and dance, to exemplify how the fiddle established itself to be such a versa le and essen al instrument through folk history. It was a great presenta on and several people of varying ages were up dancing. We've also added some new pages and items to our Baystrings newsle er. Chef Jean Kalvig is pu ng in some of her favorite recipes and ge ng others to share their favorites with our members. Our Be y Hainley has her “Words of Wisdom” sec on and John Kalvig, our District 9 photographer, gets to share the great pictures he takes each month. The 'Way Back Page' features pictures from our past jams. Trying to iden fy adults and kids alike is a challenge. Check our website to see the latest issue. The talents (computers and others) of Dr. Steve Goldfield were requested by the District 9 Board to create/establish a FaceBook page for us. He did so amazingly quickly and our 'friends' are growing in numbers each day. We are having new visitors and new members come join our group a er they 'saw' us on FB. We invite you to check out our website, CSOTFA9.org for informa on and links to other CSOTFA District websites to find out what is going on throughout the state with all our fiddlers and friends. A CAUTIONARY TALE C, E flat and G go into a bar. The bartender says, 'Sorry, but we don't serve minors.' So, E-flat leaves and C and G have an open fi h between them. A er a few drinks, the fi h is diminished and G is out flat. F comes in and tries to augment the situa on, but is not sharp enough. D comes in and heads for the bathroom saying, 'Excuse me, I'll just be a second.' The A comes in but the bartender is not convinced that this rela ve of C is not a minor. Then the bartender no ces B flat hiding at the end of the bar and says, 'Get out! You're the seventh minor I've found in this bar tonight.' E-flat comes back the next night in a three piece suit with nicely shined shoes. The bartender says, 'You're looking sharp tonight. Come on in, this could be a major development.' Sure enough, Eflat soon takes off his suit and everything else, and is au- natural. Eventually C sobers up and realizes in horror that he is under a rest. C is brought to trial, found guilty of contribu ng to the diminu on of a minor and is sentenced to 10 years of D. S. without Coda at an upscale correc onal facility. District 10 Report A local Craft Fair Marketplace was held Sunday October 4, 2015 at the Ely Stage Stop & Country Museum, in conjunction with the monthly California State Old Time Fiddle Associations District 10 Jam Session. Proceeds from the jam typically go to support the Ely Stage Stop and the District 10 Scholarship Fund. This time all proceeds donated from the event went to the Lake County Wildfire Relief Fund created by North Coast Opportunities (NCO) and Mendo Lake Credit Union (MLCU). District 10 also made a donation of $500 as several of its members lost their homes during the Valley fire. The total of all vendor fees and other donations was $2,895. Tim Rued, President Mark Hogan, Vice-President Colleen Hogan, Membership Secretary Doug Laurice, Treasurer Judith Jones, Secretary Mike Drayton, District Representative Chris Carney, Advisory Council Janette Duncan, Advisory Council Don Coffin, Advisory Council The Ely Stage Stop is located at 9921 Hwy 281 (Soda Bay Rd.), Kelseyville, California, for those of you that may want to attend our first Sunday of the month jam session. The date for the Sonoma County Bluegrass &Folk Festival is Saturday March 12, 2016. Performers will include, Gene Parsons & Mike Beck, the TSisters, Blue & Lonesome (Petaluma Bluegrass), Sourdough Slim, Evie Laden and the Roustabouts (Bakersfield Bluegrass). District 10 would also like to congratulate its newly elected leadership team for the 2015-2017 term. Beginning this year all officers and board members will serve a two year term. The Cloverdale Fiddle Festival will be held Saturday April 2, 2016. Check the web site at www.cloverdalefiddles.com for the entertainment line up. District 14 Report District 14 is on a summer hiatus. Our jams will resume in the fall. Regards, Gail Philipp District 14 Director California State Old - Time Fiddlers' Association State Officers President: Sharon Barrett -- [email protected] V. Pres. : Bill Whitfield – [email protected] Secretary: Josie Rosica – [email protected] Treasurer: Robert Curtis – [email protected] Membership: Charley Oveland – [email protected] Editor: Bruce Goble – [email protected] BOARD OF DIRECTORS District 1: Mary McCluskey -- [email protected] District 2: VACANT District 3: Gayel Pitchford -- [email protected] District 4: Pat Nelson -- [email protected] District 5: Doug Dempster — [email protected] District 6: Tex Ash -- [email protected] District 7: Avery Ellisman – Avery@familyfiddlecamp.com District 8: Charletta Erb – [email protected] District 9: Ruth Oveland -- [email protected] District 10: Mike Drayton – [email protected] District 14: Gail Philipp – [email protected] DISTRICT MEETING LOCATIONS, DATES, AND TIMES: District 1: Feather River Senior Center 1335 Meyer St. Oroville 4th Sunday 1:00-5:00 p.m. District 2: Brooks Ranch Restaurant, Hwy 99 & Chestnut : Fresno call for dates/times 2nd Sunday 2pm. District 3: 21100 Lonely Lane, Tehachapi Ca 2nd Saturday 2:00-5:00 p.m. District 4: Orange Thorpe Pk. Activity Bldg., 1414 Brookhurst Fullerton Ca 1st Sunday 1:00-4:00 p.m. District 5: Orangevale Grange, 5807 Walnut Ave. Orangevale Ca 2nd Sunday 1:00-5:00 p.m. District 6: St. James Lutheran Church 2500 Shasta View Dr. Redding CA 1nd Sunday 1:00—4:30p Round Table Pizza, Shasta Mall, 900 Dana Dr., Redding, CA 2nd Saturday 5:50p—7:30p Millville Grange Hall, 2023 Old Forty-four Dr., Palo Cedro, Ca 4th Sunday 1:00p—3:00p Web site: www.csotfa.org District 7: Rancho San Diego Public Library, 11555 Via Rancho San Diego, El Cajon 1st , 3rd, & 4th Sunday 12:00-3:00 p.m. Terrace Est. Club Room, 1815 Sweetwater Rd. Spring Valley Ca 2nd Sunday 12:00-3:00 p.m. District 8: Oak View Community Center, 18 Valley Rd. Oak View Ca 2nd & 4th Sunday 1:30-4:00 p.m. District 9: United Methodist Church, 19806 Wisteria St., Castro Valley Ca 4th Sunday 1:30-5:00 p.m. District 10: Redwood Café, Cotati 4th Sun.+ traveling jam: call Mark Hogan 707-829-8012 or Katy Bridges 415-331-9661 District 14: Methodist Church Pre School, 8th & Olive, El Centro. Sept 15 to May 30. 1st & 3rd Sunday 1:00-3:00 p.m. District Websites State – http://csotfa.org/ District 1: www.orovilleoldtimefiddlers.com District 2: District 3: www.tehachapifiddlers.org District 4: District 5: www.csotfa5.com District 6: www.northstatefiddlers.com District 7: www.sandiegofiddler.org District 8: District 9: www.csotfa9.org District 10: www.csotfa10.org District 14:
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