Ensemble String Band

[farfl's house <farfl...>]

Hi, Jeff:
I used to attend Martin's weekly "get togethers" (when I used to have a bass 
sax) and
it seems to me that there were a couple of very good fiddlers frequently in
attendance, as well as a very good and extremely enthusiastic cellist....have 
you
exhausted Martin's suggestions? Any of those people interested?
Alas, I play not stringed things....I am by nature a percussionist. But soon I 
will be
getting an EEb Contra Alto (I traded my old one to Ben Goldberg because he's 
such a
GREAT guy) and so I will once again have a bass woodwind instrument.
I wish you luck and hope that you get something together!
Regards,
Steven


> Subject: Ensembling
> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:05:44 -0400
> From: Jeffrey Miller/Burden of Proof Research <jefmil (at) interlog(dot)com>
> To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>
> With the help of Wolf, Michael Wex, Martin Van De Ven and others I have been
> trying to find people to form a new klezmer stringband (or quasi-stringband)
> in Toronto. So far, I haven't had much luck finding the appropriate
> personnel.  (One fiddler has non-committally said, "Maybe in the fall.")
> For starters, it would just be a "kicks" band, and I'm looking particularly
> for fiddle, maybe mandolin, maybe bass, maybe some sort of bazouki, maybe
> flute or recorders.  Does anybody have any suggestions?  Obviously, I'm
> trying to find people who are not otherwise fully occupied with working
> ensembles.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeffrey M.
> Toronto
>
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