Vashon's String Ensemble evening for the Folk

Hello Vashon Fiddlers, Pickers and Strummers,

Next Thursday, 1/31, at 7:00 will be our first EVENING RISK for the year.  We invite any and all of you to attend!  We will jam until about 8:30 at Minglement in the Library.
 

Every last thursday we have an evening session inspired by string players who cannot make it to RISK's normal afternoon time: players of all ages are welcome. Please enter through the FRONT, MIDDLE door on the porch.  

Thanks and hope to see you there!

Cheers,

Kim and Shane

RISK Songlist! New session starts this Tuesday @ 3:30

Welcome back everyone!

Nothing like a nice cold dark winter for toasty folk music.  Here is the list of songs we are playing this session!  Check the RISK Calendar, and mark your own calendars!

All players (or their supportive and loving parents) should print out all sheet music for this session, and place it in a black three ring binder to bring to RISK each week. Clicking on each song name will take you to the post about that song.

List of things to bring tomorrow:

• black 3 ring binder with music
• pencil for taking notes
• your instrument of choice
• $1, $5 or $10 for t-shirts, whatever you can afford
• $40 for winter session dues (by the second session)

We're really excited to see where all the new developments this season take us!  Let's get together and make some noise!

Shane and Kim

Old Songs to bring back
Mari's Wedding
Hangu
Snowdens
Gravel Walk
Eleanor Rigby
Bayou Ponpon
Blackthorn/Ten Penny/Swallowtail

New Songs
Cluck Old Hen
Sis Draper/Arkensas Traveller
Morrison's
Round the Horn
Favorite Things
All of Me
Jumbolaya
Don't mess with my Tutu
Freylachs from Podoloy
Hava Nagila
Here Comes the Sun

(Note: not all songs include sheetmusic!  Some will have to be learned by ear from the recordings and/or in RISK.)

Here Comes the Sun, ukulule and guitar chords, and lyrics

My last new song post for the RISK Winter Season comes with a truly awesome video - melody instruments get to learn this one by ear.  I just finished listening to it four times in a row, I will say no more, just watch this:

http://youtu.be/LqjB667G87U




REVISED VERSION OF:

HERE COMES THE SUN

This might be a little easier to read.  Also, let's keep it in D so no Capo's needed.

D                            G                     A7

Little darling, it’s been a long, cold, lonely winter

D                              G                     A7

Little darling, it feels like years since it’s been here

D             D7    G              E7              D

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun, and I say: “It’s

           A7

allright!"

D                           G               A7

Little darling, the smiles returning to their faces

D                             G                      A7

Little darling, it seems like years since it’s been here

D              D7    G             E7              D

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun, and I say: “It’s

           A7

allright!"

F    C    G                 D  D

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes 

F    C    G                 D  D
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes

F    C    G                 D  D

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes

F    C    G                 D  D  A7  A7  Em7  A7
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes

D                              G               A7

Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting

D                                 G                    A7

Little darling, it seems like years since it’s been here

D               D7    G             E7              D

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun, and I say: “It’s

          A7

allright!"

D              D7    G             E7              D

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun, and I say: “It’s

          A7

allright!"

F C G G D

The Greatest Hit of all Klezmer, Hava Nagila! Sheet music, chords, lyrics, and a recording

Probably the most widely known Klezmer tune these days all over the world - often played at celebrations, the song starts slow, then steadily increases in tempo, causing the circling dancers to accellerate till their feet are flying!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soUjj-asquM&fmt=18


"Hava Nagila," meaning "Let Us Rejoice," is perhaps the best known Jewish folk song and is a staple for bands playing at Jewish festivals. The melody was taken from a Ukrainian folk song. The lyrics were probably written by Abraham Zvi Idelsohn in 1918 to celebrate the British victory in Palestine during World War I as well as the Balfour Declaration of 1917.
The Lyrics in English:

Let's rejoice
Let's rejoice
Let's rejoice and be happy
Let's sing
Let's sing
Let's sing and be happy

Awake, brothers, awake
Awake, brothers, with a happy heart
Awake, brothers, awake brothers
With a happy heart

-------------------quote from http://messiahstudies.org/HavaNagila.html

Freylachs from Podoly, klezmer sheetumusic, recording and chords

This is a companion song to the one we learned earlier this year, Hangu from Podoloy.  Sheet music and chords are below.  Click the youtube link to start at 1:40, where Freylachs begins, or hit play in the screen below to hear both tunes together!

http://youtu.be/0NP4Fwy5yrM?t=1m40s

Don’t Mess With My Toot Toot, chords, lyrics, and recording

Click here for the youtube live concert, Doug Kershaw and his band playing don't mess with my toot toot:
http://youtu.be/pQjGc2NdrAQ

No sheet music for this one, we'll learn it by ear!

By Denise La Salle 
Tabbed By Larry Mofle

Chorus: 
G
Don’t mess with my toot toot 
G
Don’t mess with my toot toot 
                        D
You can have the other woman 
                      G
But don’t mess with my toot toot 

Verse 1:
G
When I was born in my birth suit 
G
The doctor made up his mind 
                          D 
He said: “You're gonna be special 
                 G     
You're gonna be fine

So you can look as much 
But if you much as touch 
You’re gonna have yourself a case 
I’m gonna break your face 

Chorus

Solo 
 
Chorus 
 
Repeat 1st verse

Chorus

Jumbolaya Cajun tune, recording, sheetmusic and chords and lyrics!

Jumbolaya's another Cajun tune, written by Hank Williams, and may be based on an older Cajun tune, like the way much music truly is based on what came before, especially in the folk tradition.

Here's R Cajun and the Zydeco Brothers playing it: sheetmusic, chords and lyrics await your viewing pleasure below :)

http://youtu.be/ehvPAGE8pw4

 

Jambalaya
written and recorded by Hank Williams 
G                             D7
Goodbye Joe me gotta go me oh my oh
                                      G
Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou
                                 D7
My Yvonne the sweetest one me oh my oh
                                       G
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
 
                                       D7
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and filet gumbo
                                       G
Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
                                  D7
Pick guitar fill fruit jar and be gay-o
                                       G
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
 
                                   D7
Thibodaux Fontaineaux the place is buzzing
                                  G
Kinfolk come to see Yvonne by the dozen
                                     D7
Dress in style and go hog wild me oh my oh
                                       G
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
 
                                     D7
Settle down far from town get me a pirogue
                                   G
And I'll catch all the fish in the bayou
                                   D7
Swap my mon to buy Yvonne what she need-oh
                                       G
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
 
repeat #2

My Favorite Things Sheet Music, Chords, and the Turtle Island String Quartet!

From The Sound of Music musical, this song has become a jazz and gypsy swing standard.  Here's sheetmusic and chords, and below a video of the Turtle Island String Quartet performing live.  Cello solo at 2:45, you've been warned.

My Favorite things by shanefiddle

http://youtu.be/xKDwzihp1GI

All of Me: sheetmusic, chords, and a recording: what more could you want?

Ok, gypsy swing here we come, All Of ME! By Seymour Simons and Gerald Marks. Get Down.

http://youtu.be/uXp-x_QCKvs

Round the horn, sheet music and Mandolin Tab, guitar chords

Just like the title says, here it is, sheet music and Mandolin Tab:

Morrison's Jig, sheet music and chords, fiddlers take a risk in the video!

Sheet music, chords and Mandolin Tab, check out below for a really impressive video of two gals bowing eachother's violins in a Morrison's duet!

http://youtu.be/0atTlbeI110

Sis Draper chords and lyrics, and Arkansas Traveller sheet music for fiddlers and Mandolin

The song Sis Draper was written by Guy Clark and Shawn Camp, and has been played by a number of well known bands including Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder.  Verses and Chorus' alternate with the first and second line of Arkansas Traveller.  Here's sheetmusic for fiddles and TAB for mandolin, see below for how the fiddle tune fits into the lyrics and chords.

Here are the chords and lyrics:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24312009/RISK/Sis%20Draper%20Lyrics%20and%20Chords.pdf

and a video of Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder performing at Bluegrass Underground IN A CAVE (how cool is that):
http://youtu.be/mvgQa5IgFTE

Cluck Old Hen, fiddle and chords

Happy Winter!

This season I'm going to do a bunch of posts at the beginning of the session with all the music for the season.  The very last post will contain a list of all the songs we are working on this winter and links to them all, so keep an eye out for it!

First up, Cluck Old Hen:
Sheet music (follow link for better quality pdf):
http://www.nashvilleoldtime.org/Tunes%20-%20Listen%20and%20Learn/tunepackages/Cluck%20Old%20Hen.pdf

Recording:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yNvPlpSSYs

Countdown To RISK String Ensemble!

Happy New Year, and may it be a RISK-Y one for us all!!

RISK will officially start up again TUESDAY, JAN. 15th, 3:30 to 4:45, at the Minglement Library with new songs and fresh energy! Tuition is $40 for the 10 weeks if paid by Jan. 23rd, or $5/ session (save $10 by paying a lump sum).

THREE COOL THINGS:

1. BIG NEWS!! Pete Welch is offering us a benefit gig similar to the shows he puts on for the Backbone Campaign! The show is called "Love Duets" and will happen on February 15th at the Red Bike! We are hoping RISK will perform 2 or 3 songs (Mairi's wedding being one, of course) to start out the evening. 


2. More great news!  Some holiday elves so enjoyed the String Kollective's music last year, they decided to give a gift to RISK, and make sure everyone can have a RISK t-shirt of their own for concerts!  Chip in whatever you can afford, $10, $5 or even just a token $1, and the elves will cover the rest of the cost!  Place whatever you can afford in an envelope with your name on it, and give it to Shane at the first RISK session.  Hurrah, now we'll have matching shirts for our upcoming performances!  Thanks Elves! 


3. Finally, EVENING RISK, will happen the last Thursday of the month. For January, we'll be playing on the 31st from 7:15 to 8:30.

Looking forward to Musical Mayhem and Merry Making soon!!


Cheers,


Kim and Shane