Category: NEWS

Bruce Molsky – Can’t Stay Here This a-Way–DVD & CD Set

Here’s the teaser folks! Bruce Molsky’s biggest release to date is coming soon!

B & W Photographs from The Festival of American Fiddle Tunes 2015!

Bruce Greene and John Haywood

Vesta Johnson and Steve Hall

Kids’ Dance

Eric & Suzy Thompson and Friends

Peter McCracken

Maggie Lind, Grace Forrest & Candy Goldman

David Bragger teaching the “Fiddle Tunes of an Ex-Slave” workshop

Jesse Lege and Gabrielle Macrae

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Jason Romero, John Hurd, David Bragger, Suzy & Eric, and Pharis Romero

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Joel Savoy

Jody Stecher

Kore Loy McWhirter

Kristi Guillory

Jason Romero

The Nerve Center of Fiddle Tunes

Maxine Gerber

Crazy Hat Party

Kids’ Dance

Kristian Bugge, Sonnich Lydom and Morten Hoirup

Peter McCracken, Bonnie Zahnow and W. Bruce Reid

Cajun Band Lab with Christine Balfa and Anya Burgess

Howard Rains and Tricia Spencer

Tiki Parlour’s David Bragger teaching at Fiddle Tunes in WA!!

So excited! I’ll be tutoring Beginning Fiddle at The Festival of American Fiddle Tunes this coming week! I will also present a workshop entitled “Alonzo Janes: Fiddle Tunes of an Ex-Slave.” And for those interested, I can demystify old-time bowing for you. Bow patterns, downs/ups, bow rocking, variations, etc. Do you want to know how Tommy Jarrell, Melvin Wine, Edden Hammons, Mel Durham, etc. did it? I’ll show you how. I’m there for you!

Sausage Grinder on Sing Out! Magazine’s Top List of Jug Bands

While tracing the history of Jug Band Music, Sing Out Radio Magazine has just placed us on this prestigious list of jug bands. We’re humbled to be featured on a list with many of our idols including Tennessee Chocolate Drops, Mississippi Sheiks, Memphis Jug Band, Cannon’s Jug Stompers and many others!

Sing Out’s “Pass the Jug Around” Podcast

Rafe & Clelia Stefanini DVD Release Party Highlights-May 23rd

On May 23rd, we celebrated the Rafe & Clelia Stefanini DVD Release Party! Rafe & Clelia flew in from Philly and Nashville to teach fiddle and banjo workshops, jam, and perform a grand house concert with a wonderful community potluck! Thanks to all who have supported us and helped Old-Time Tiki Parlour Recordings become a dream old-time label. We are proud to present new and upcoming releases from Dan Gellert, Eric & Suzy Thompson, Bruce Molsky, Rains & Spencer, The Stuart Brothers and many more! Thanks for supporting us and special thanks to Rafe and Clelia for being the first artists to kick off our new label and studio with their awesome DVD! Here are some highlights from the epic week they spent at the Parlour!

Clelia Stefanini teaching Lyman Enloe’s “Rugged Road” in the Fiddle Workshop.

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Clelia’s Workshop Fiddlers

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Rafe teaching “Darling Nellie Gray” in the Banjo Workshop

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Rafe’s Banjo Workshop Pickers

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Rafe & Clelia Stefanini Concert

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Stefanini Concert with special guests Tom & Patrick Sauber and David Bragger

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Actress/Violinist Lucia Micarelli from HBO’s “Treme” visits the Parlour!

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Master Latin Musician and Violinist Jesus Florido

performs the Indian Dilruba during the Tiki Parlour after-party!

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Patrick Sauber entertains us during the Stefanini after-party

with stories of music and conspiracy.

Spencer & Rains w/John Schwab at the Tiki Parlour!!

Howard Rains & Tricia Spencer will be jamming with us on Sunday April 12th. They are the living torchbearers of old Texas fiddle tunes/songs and they’re celebrating the release of their newest CD, “Weird Old Tunes of Texas.” If you love ancient fiddle tunes, duets, and beautiful harmony singing, you’ll be blown away. They will also have an extra special guest: the old-time guitar master John Schwab! Yes, it’s an old-time two-fer!

The following day on Monday, April 13th, John Schwab will give a very special old-time guitar workshop. He is the single best workshop guitar teacher I have ever witnessed. Tons of history, listening and hands-on playing. With over 40 years’ experience playing old-time backup guitar, John has performed and taught at festivals and music camps all over the U.S. He’s the author of “Old-Time Backup Guitar: Learn from the Masters.” His approach to teaching backup guitar has always been rooted in his reverence for the master backup guitar players of the 1920s and ‘30s.

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—Spencer & Rains Jam-Sunday, April 12 at 6:00

—John Schwab Old-Time Back-Up Guitar Workshop–Monday, April 13th from 7:00-9:00

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If you’re interested, reserve your spot now. Since I keep my Tiki Parlour events private, small and intimate, they always fill up within a few days of announcement! These events are not open to the public.

DAN GELLERT TEASER #2–BANJO

Jesse Milnes & Emily Miller at the Old-Time Tiki Parlour–SOLD OUT!!

Workshop-Potluck-Concert-Old-Time Jam!!!!!!

West Virginia’a Jesse Milnes & Emily Miller are visiting The Old-Time Tiki Parlour! They will be performing a house concert chock full of songs, ballads, fiddle tunes, instrumentals, blues and all around wonderful-ness. They were an enormous hit when they came to town for the Los Angeles Old-Time Social a couple years ago. You won’t want to miss this intimate show! Also, we’ll have an epic old-time jam after the show!! Yes, a jam!!

Emily and Jesse will also be teaching a 2-hour singing workshop before the concert. Again, not to be missed! Their voices, harmonies, personalities and love for the music make it a workshop experience like no other. For those of you who attended that epic Joe Newberry/Val Mindel old-time singing workshop last month, Emily is Val’s daughter!

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Date: Saturday, January 24, 2015

Singing Workshop: 3:30-5:30, $30

Potluck: 6:00

House Concert: 7:00, $20

Old-Time Jam: After Concert

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All Tiki Parlour events sell out, so please RSVP as soon as you can. Let me know if you’re doing the Workshop, the Concert or Both. Space is limited and usually fills up within a week, or even days, of the announcement! Send me a check (payable to Emily Miller) or drop off the cash within a week so I can keep your spot! Hope to see you here!

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Jesse Milnes & Emily Miller perform country and old-time music, singing close harmony with Jesse’s unique finger-picked guitar style and a healthy dose of old-time fiddling. Emily was raised playing and singing Louvin Brothers and Stanley Brothers songs with her parents while they traveled the world as journalists. She is now a lead singer and twin fiddler in the country band, the Sweetback Sisters, and spends much of her time on the road. Jesse grew up in the world of West Virginia old-time music, learning from masters like Melvin Wine and Ernie Carpenter as well as his father, Gerry Milnes. He also toured for many years with the Sweetback Sisters, but now primarily plays fiddle for square dancing. Jesse and Emily live in central West Virginia.

Old-Time Music Holiday Gift Ideas!

Here are some New Releases (mostly) that will make great holiday gifts and really support dedicated old-time lovers and players. I’ve also included some old standbys! Enjoy and I’ll even update as I’m able!