Spring session setlist 2014, Vashon RISK Orchestra

Here is our list of tunes to work on this session!  We will also continue many tunes from the last season.

Banish misfortune
Allons a Lafayette
Imagine
Around the horn
Sway
Minor Swing/king of the mountain swing
Turk in America
Over the waterfall

The Onlies benefit contradance, Sun. March 9th 2pm @ O Space

Invite your friends and family to the contradance of the year!  Featuring Seattle's hottest youth string group, the Onlies, and benefiting folk music programs for youth on Vashon, this is an event not to be missed.

Open Space welcomes The Onlies to Vashon, headlining a Benefit Performance for RISK and RISK Jr.
As a venue that loves music, arts education, and joyful gatherings, we are thrilled to welcome The Onlies, RISK and RISK Jr. to our stage! This Benefit Performance will feature RISK and RISK Jr. opening the show. Over 25 Vashon kids and adults will take the stage to perform. Then, The Onlies will bring their amazing music and spirit, with a concert and dance sure to bring smiles to every face and a spring to every step. Larry Muir will call the dance portion of the afternoon.

The Onlies play original and traditional fiddle-driven music, with Celtic, old-time American, and Canadian roots. Members Leo Shannon, Riley Calcagno, and Samantha Braman are Garfield High School (Seattle) sophomores who've literally played together since they were two years old. Singing and playing fiddle, guitar, mandolin, banjo, and piano, they have developed a strong fan base throughout the Pacific Northwest, performing concerts, dances, restaurants, and pubs from Port Townsend to Palo Alto, CA. The Onlies have just finished their first full-length album, "Setting Out to Sea." The CD features six original songs and tunes, plus traditional and contemporary selections

Proceeds from the event will go towards the RISK Scholarship Fund, which supports music lessons and instrument rentals for low-income kids.

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

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

I's the B'y sheetmusic and lyrics in G

This evening I thought I'd post some music for I's the B'y, a song we taught way back before the blog got started.  The song's author is unknown, and may be a re-writing of an older ballad, but in it's most recent form, it originates in Newfoundland.  For more info and all the verses, click here.

Each chord gets 3 beats.  The chords for it are:


G G D D
G G C D
G G D D
C D G G

The melody is the top line:

The words vary widely depending on whose version you sing.  Here's the version we have sung:

I's the B'y who builds the boat
I's the B'y who sails her
I's the B'y who catches the fish
and brings 'em home to Liza

I took Liza to the dance
Faith but she could travel
Every step that Liza took
Covered an acre of gravel



From the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada - We are told that although the song may have originated in the 1870s, probably in a Newfoundland fishing village, interest in I's The B'y did not spread outside Newfoundland until after the song was heard and transcribed by two researchers interested in Newfoundland's folk traditions, Kenneth Peacock and Gerald S. Doyle. Its melody and lyrics were transmitted throughout Canada in the songbook Folk Songs of Canada by Edith Fowke and Richard Johnston (1954), relying on Peacock's transcription. Teachers and students outside Newfoundland were eager to learn about the music of the newest province, which had joined Canada a mere five years earlier, and I's the B'y quickly became a favourite of classrooms and choirs across the country.

EVENING RISK @ the Roastery A BIG HIT

***************UPDATE 10/16/12: ****************

We had a rockin' fun time last Thursday night at Minglement with 7 excellent players showing up to jam!  I have some recordings to post later this week.

The next EVENING RISK will take place on NOVEMBER 15TH, 7 PM, at the Roasterie.  Mark your calendars and join us if you can!

***************************************************

We will have our FIRST EVENING RISK get-together THIS THURSDAY!!

This group is open to anyone who wants to come out and share a musical hour plus.  Beginners welcome.  If you have RISK music already, please bring that along as we will probably do some of our favorite tunes.  You can find and print out or listen to all the music here on the RISK site!

The Roasterie is closed during the time we will be there, so bring a drink or snack if you need one.  There is a small fee of $5 per session.

Looking forward to some rockin' evening jams!!

Cheers,

Kim and Shane

The Bosco Stomp for RISKy fiddlers

And we are back to Cajun music!  The fabulous Kim has brought us another outragous fiddle tune.  Listen to her play it here nice and clear, then watch the video below of the the Lost Bayou Ramblers playing it live.  Keep an eye on the bass player - I think he is actually balanced ON TOP of his double bass as he plays it!  That's some high energy music folks!

I typed up some sheet music for it too, feel free to print it out.  We'll learn the second part of this on Tuesday! Thanks Kim!

Bosco Stomp mp3, fiddle

Hangu from Podoloy

This evening's post is Hongu from Podoloy, and transitions into Freylachs from Podoloy.  Both are Old World Klezmer tunes, played by the Hungarian Klezmer band, Di Naye Kapelye.  We will learn the second tune in the fall!

 This second video is the Di Naye Kapelye Live!  Enjoy!


Newly posted, here's the sheetmusic for the tune!
 http://www.noteflight.com/scores/view/1956f166ffed208662b779a2376eb651f77e04d8


Here's the viola part:
http://www.noteflight.com/scores/view/1956f166ffed208662b779a2376eb651f77e04d8

RISK: String Fiddle concert on Sunday, November 20th, 2011

Dear Friends of the Rock Island String Kollective,

Vashon Island's own folk orchestra, the Rock Island String Kollective, will be presenting a Pre-Thanksgiving Concert at 7pm on Sunday, November 20^th at the Vashon Methodist Church (17928 Vashon Highway SW). Come enjoy the sweet strains of Irish fiddle tunes, Klezmer music, Beattles classics and Jazz Standards.


We will be sharing the stage with Vashon's own community choir, the Free Range Folk Choir! Come enjoy the harmonies of a cappella choral music from South Africa, Republic of Georgia, Israel and the US.


As always, admission is free; donations in support of the event are welcome.

We hope to see you there!
Shane Jewell & Kim Thal, co-directors
Vashon Rock Island String Kollective

Snowden's (Genuine Negro Jig), the Carolina Chocolate Drops

This week's new tune is one the Carolina Chocolate Drops perform. Here's a youtube video of them playing it, and below is the sheet music. They call it Genuine Negro Jig, or Snowden's Jig after the man who wrote it, a local fiddler in the south of the US. Enjoy!

Interestingly, it is more of a Reel than a Jig, since it is not in 6/8 time. Regardless, what an awesome tune! I had the pleasure of seeing the Chocolate Drops in concert this summer - they are amazing performers live, and put on one of the best shows I have seen in a long time. Dom plays the bones (he is the guy on the left), Rhiannon plays the fiddle on the right. The man in the middle (Justin) is no longer part of the group. The Chocolate Drops album, Genuine Negro Jig, won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album.

Calling all Fiddlers and Pickers of Stringed Instruments: Vashon Island's fiddle orchestra is tuning up for fall season

As the leaves begin to fall RISK is tuning up! The new season begins again on Tuesday September 27th. Once again RISK takers will be convening on the historic Vashon Island Coffee Roastery each Tuesday at 3:30pm (note the new time).

Also, take a look around the new site! Sign up for for the mailing list to have all newly posted tunes sent right you your inbox. If you have an idea for what you would love to see on this site, send us a note - we could use your ideas.

We are looking forward to a year full of music! See you soon,

shane