Fiddle Hell Online Jam #40 Sept 13 2020: Judy Hyman (fiddle) Jeff Claus (banjo uke, guitar) OLD-TIME

Play along with (or just listen to) Judy Hyman (fiddle) and Jeff Claus (banjo use, guitar), with a focus on OLD-TIME tunes. It was a fine session, with a few stories about the tunes and more, and Judy running through each tune once slowly before playing up to speed. Judy has taught at Fiddle Hell for years, and Jeff was there for the first time in 2019. In 2020, Judy and Jeff will be teaching a workshop at Fiddle Hell Online, leading a jam, and playing on one of the old-time concerts. With roots in classical training, traditional fiddle music, and modern rock, Judy Hyman is a founding member of the alt-folk rock band, The Horse Flies. With them she has toured extensively in the U.S., Canada, and Europe and recorded 8 albums, including releases on MCA and Rounder Records. Judy also composes music for film, television, and multi-media. She received an Emmy for "Musical Composition/Arrangement: Special Achievement" for her score for the documentary, The Cultivated Life: Thomas Jefferson and Wine. Judy has toured and recorded with pop singer Natalie Merchant several times and appears on her albums, The House Carpenter's Daughter and Leave Your Sleep. In 2012 she released an album of her original waltzes, Late Last Summer, with her father, pianist Dick Hyman. Judy has been featured twice in Fiddler Magazine (for her fiddle playing), and also in Electronic Musician (for her film composing), and she was selected by Fiddler Magazine as one of their top 20 fiddlers in 2013, in celebration of their 20th anniversary. Critics have described Judy's work as haunting, gorgeous, sepia-tone, stirring, powerful, impressive, beautiful, rousing, and playful. Visit JudyHyman.com for many exciting details. Jeff Claus is one of the founding members and main songwriters of the alt-folk-rock band, The Horse Flies (www.thehorseflies.com), about whom the New York Times said: “The Horse Flies have figured out how to hold a hoedown in a physics lab." Rolling Stone has written, "They churn out swirling, addictive songs, blending tradition with invention." Jeff has toured extensively in the U.S., Canada, and Europe; recorded on Rounder and MCA; appeared on Prairie Home Companion, All Things Considered, Mountain Stage, eTown, and MTV; and played numerous festivals and concert series (e.g., Telluride Bluegrass, Vancouver Folk, Winnipeg Folk, LEAF, Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, Smithsonian Festival of American FolkLife). He’s taught at many festivals, camps, and schools, and has had songs and music used by film director Oliver Stone (in Any Given Sunday), Natalie Merchant (including on two albums and Late Night with David Letterman), and MTV's Rock the Vote. He has also co-composed and/or mixed music for over 25 feature and documentary films, mostly with his partner and best friend, Judy Hyman (www.j2filmmusic.com), and some with The Horse Flies. Jeff has a deep and abiding love of Southern traditional fiddle music, having been immersed in it for over 45 years. He’s an especially committed fan of rhythm, groove, and drone, and loves working with diverse people interested in developing their skills for providing solid, rhythmic backup on guitar and banjo uke. Visit fiddlehell.org, where the schedule and registration are live for Fiddle Hell Online, Nov 5-8, 2020, with 35 epic concerts, 34 amazing jams, and 160 great workshops, all live but all replayable for 3 months afterwards. Join the Fiddle Hell Massachusetts Facebook group for more info and events at Facebook.com/groups/FiddleHellMassachusetts . Join the Fiddle Hell email list at https://www.fiddlehell.org/contact to keep up with Fiddle Hell news. PLAYLIST: All these tunes are available to listen to and download at the great Slippery Hill site https://www.slippery-hill.com (except Coastal Julianne Johnson that you can find at the fabulous Rayna Gellert’s site): = from Fiddle Hell Common Tune List Key of A (AEAE) 5 Miles of Ellum Wood (Bruce Greene) Garfield (Stanley Bailey) *June Apple Jenny Run Away in the Mud in the Night (Marcus Martin) Pretty Little Shoes (Ward Jarvis) Key of G *Big Scioty Ladies on the steamboat (Burnett & Rutherford) Jimmy in the Swamp (Bob Walters) Key of D *Angeline (Norman Edmonds) Coastal Julianne Johnson (Wayne Martin) Key of G (Drop D tuning: GDAD) Flatwoods