O Brother, Where Am I? Dill Pickles TONIGHT! Fergie’s Pub!
I got a nice little blurb in at Phawker today about old time music:
“Old time,” my fiddle-playing friend Nik says, “is like acoustic trance music.” At least the fiddle tunes are. While a bluegrass song is generally about 3 minutes long, old time songs can go on for a lot longer than that. In some sessions, I’ve played “Fiddler’s Dram” for nearly 20 minutes, and could have gone on for a few more bars. Many of these songs are meant to be played at dances or parties, where you could reasonably expect people to be in the middle of a contradance; like today’s trance and electronic musics, most fiddle tunes have few or no lyrics, and a catchy melody that self perpetuates. Some of my favorite old time songs have no resolution whatsoever.
And on that note (pun SO intended), please comes see the Dill Pickles at Fergie’s Pub TONIGHT, February 6 at 11:00 PM. we’re after the tango band, but before the Schuylkill River Outlaws, who play wonderfully rowdy bluegrass.
