FIDDLERS -- AND A FIDDLER'S CD (home)
Lynn Wells, oldtime Missouri fiddler, playing for the lunchtime crowd at the Cherry Street Artisan, one photo all shadowy and mysterious, with Bob and Dorothy Pitman in the foreground, listening, and one photo with the lights on!
That's the photo on the cover of the new CD, "LYNN WELLS + Pippa Letsky, LIVE! at the Cherry Street Artisan."
We eventually got Mike Robertson to record us at this venue (April 2004), and the CD came out in 2010: twelve fiery Missouri tunes, with Kevin Hennessy on bass tracked later at Pete Szkolka's studio. The CD is for sale at gigs, at Coopers Landing, from this Web site (write me )--and ten out of twelve tunes on it will soon be available for download on iTunes and Amazon.com.
Here we have a bunch of oldtime fiddlers playing outside the Music Department, in Lowry Mall on the MU campus, in 1991. Photo by the Missouri Cultural Heritage Center. Left to right: unknown kid clogging, Pippa, Pete McMahan, Charlie Walden (hiding behind Pete), Dean Franklin on bass (hiding behind Taylor), Taylor McBaine, Kenny Applebee on guitar, Norma Applebee, and I don't know the piano player's name, and Howard Marshall. The kid was clogging real well, which is how come all folks are watching him.
There's a lot of wonderful news about traditional oldtime Missouri fiddlers at the Missouri Traditional Fiddle and Dance Network site, including photos of the Taylor McBaine Memorial Contest, 2007,
where Pippa played with Gene Stevens backup on guitar, and together we took third place in the senior division!
UPDATE FROM JULY 4, 2010, the seventh annual Independence Day Boonsboro Fiddle Competition.... Pippa took second place in the Senior Division! I got the trophy to prove it! Many thanks to Junior Marriot and Kathy Gordon for first-rate backup.