...European settlers and Native Americans. The Metis were often looked down upon since they did not belong in any specific category, and were also discriminated against. Additionally, the Cajun people are an ethnic group in Louisiana that has originated from a group known as the Acadians. They have French origins. Both the Metis and Cajuns have their own style of music that is representative of their culture and origins. Their music contains fiddles and harmonicas that play quick and diverse beats. The music often adds more notes and beats, while maintaining the European feel, showing the intersection of cultures. The music sounds like a variation or a blend rather that just a single category. Also, there are many similarities between the Metis and Cajun music. In my opinion, I thought the instrumentation was very similar. In both forms of music, I heard a lot of fiddle playing also accordion. I also thought the styles were very similar. They both had a sort of folk feel to them. After listening to the Metis music, I heard the same sort of upbeat fiddle playing in the Cajun waltzes, with lots of complex rhythms and many notes in every phrase....
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...Jeffrey Broussard and the Creole Cowboys Name University Spreading as it did throughout the 20th Century, popular culture has seen the evolution of music into distinctive sounds supported by tunes generated by musical instruments like guitars, violins, fiddles, keyboards, and xylophones to mention but a few. Dating back to the invention of jazz in the Roaring Twenties, this sound has developed over the years into Early Creole music, and later Creole zydeco. In our generation, some of the most talented bands that play this kind of music include the unsung heroes Jeffrey Broussard and the Creole Cowboys based in Louisiana. The band comprises Jeffrey Broussard on lead vocals, vocals, and accordion, John Gerald Broussard on bass, Chris Fruge on scrub board and drums, and D’Jalma Garnier III on fiddle and guitar. With a career spanning over four years, the band has had two studio albums: Return of the Creole (Le Retour du Créole) released in 2007 and Keeping the Tradition Alive released in 2011. My personal favorite is the title track to their debut studio album, ‘The Return of the Creole.’ Their fans appreciate their rich, indigenous brand of contemporary Zydeco as well as the rendition of Creole classics. Early Creole music is currently experiencing a well-deserved comeback thanks to the band whose front man Jeffrey is the son of legendary Creole classic star Delton Broussard. On Friday, Jeffrey and his band are scheduled to perform at the New Orleans Jazz Festival. If you...
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...When we arrived at the festival, we took our chairs and instruments to the large covered bleachers and set everything up. We then walked over to the bright yellow tent and waited for the registration doors to open. It was strange seeing so many people that I had never seen before in person, but I knew them from the pictures and videos of them online. After a little while, we picked up our instruments so we could jam with some of the kids. We met Trevor and Garret Holder from Georgia, who played banjo and guitar with us. They were a lot of fun to jam with. Next, we went into a little room and I registered for youth bluegrass fiddle. We tried to get together a youth band, but lots of people joined and then they just left to join other bands. We finally ended up with my one of our friends, Liam Purcell, me, and my brother, John Michael, playing banjo, fiddle, and guitar, respectively. After registration, we decided to go sit down and watch the contest. We soon became hungry and decided to get something to eat. I bought a big, juicy cheeseburger with everything on it. It was delicious! When we finished eating, we walked around and looked in the vendor booths. There were T-shirts, desserts, drinks, instruments,...
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...4. Silver Fiddle Case Risks and mitigations Not meeting the five-month time estimate is another risk that may be encountered. Lack of labor and equipment might be a problem because other houses are to be built. It will be advisable to evaluate the sequence in which these building activities will occur, and distribute resources evenly across each house. Silver Fiddle could apply Heuristics, or the rules of thumb to create a framework work for allocating resources in such a situation. A contingency plan will be to lease or hire additional equipment to augment the ones the company already has. A shortage of building materials is another risk that is possible. Supplies may run short due to the fact that Silver fiddle has many other homes to build. I would suggest purchase of building supplies in large quantities, and store them, pending when they will be needed. Since Silver Fiddle is scheduled to build 11 homes this year, there might not be many available subcontractors to work on the Czopek’s home. Silver Fiddle will do well to develop a detailed time estimation based on parametric procedures. This will ensure that particular local trade professionals will be available when needed, well in advance. As a backup plan, alternate subcontractors outside the area that are sure to be available within the stipulated time, should be contacted. The book keeper in this construction company is employed only on a part time basis, and this...
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...W.A. Smith’s literary novel, Einstein’s Fiddle, references the parable of the Prodigal Son. In the novel, we follow the prodigal Davy Calhoun’s flight from his family and his failure as a writer, his fall into despair, and a barely held hope for redemption and ultimately forgiveness. In 1985, alcohol-fuelled Davy sets off to his hometown Charlottesville, Virginia, after kidnapping his infant son from his estranged wife Molly in Chicago. Before reaching Virginia, Davy leaves the baby on a doorstep in a town he doesn’t know the name of. From Virginia, Davy heads to the West Coast, where he ends up on the streets of San Francisco with his new companion, Sheila, an educated woman he believes to be homeless too. Sheila offers him a chance at redemption as she takes Davy under her wing and encourages him to return to the wife and son he...
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...In a contemporary musical performance context the fiddle is always present and rarely would a band not include a fiddle in their repertoire. On the other hand, from at least 1,000 AD, a rich culture of composition, improvisation, performance and ensemble has been mastered around the harp in Ireland. This instrument has become a very important symbol of the country; pictured on the national flag, Garda caps and in coin currency. Ireland is the only country in the world that has a music instrument as its symbol. The harp is basically a frame supporting strings from a sound-box. Its shape is the reason why there are so many harp traditions around the word, traditions that have constantly strived exploration, retrieval and ingenuity among harpers and harp enthusiasts through the 20th and into the 21st...
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...year old boy. I should start at the beginning (I pity you.) I was born, skip a few years and I’m 5 or 6 years old I’m at my first real fiddle head sow as an actor I’m one of the little little kids and I’m in doctor due little (the word little is in hear a lot.) when I was learning what to do (stand there and look scared for someone.) I thought hey this pretty fun, and the crowed oh the crowed it was as if I was home. The lights shining on my face, seeing all the other faces looking...
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...The medieval fiddle was used in Europe in the 10th century. Hemera Technologies/AbleStock.com/Getty Images Fiddle is a term used to describe any string instrument. Most commonly, fiddle means the violin, especially when the violin is playing folk music. A medieval instrument called the fiddle also has the same basic characteristics as the violin. String players will often refer to their violin casually as a fiddle, regardless of their preferred style of playing. Bows The fiddle bow is a stick used to play the violin and consists of several smaller parts. Horsehair is the preferred material for the threads on the bow. Depending on the size of the instrument, the strings will have a wider girth. The tip of the bow is the point on the opposite end of where the violinist holds the bow. The long wooden part is the stick. The base of the bow where the violinist places his hand is the frog. The bottom of the bow has a screw that tightens the hairs. Strings...
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...word for word and we would sing it all the time and pretend that we could play the fiddle. We were used to hearing country so when this song came out it was more like country-rock or bluegrass. The composers for this song were: Charlie Daniels, James Wainwright Marsall, Fred Edwards, Charles Hayward, William Digregorio, and John Crain. This song was composed after Daniels realized that the band didn’t have a fiddle song on the album. The band took a break from recording and when they came back Daniels had come up with the title ‘The Devil went down to Georgia.’ Daniels had said in an interview that it might have come from an old poem he had read in high school. The band started playing and soon they had the song down. The tempo is consider fast country. Then the song moved over to the pop culture of the eighties, and did just as well....
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...I have chosen the song “The Devil Went Down To Georgia” by the Charlie Daniels band. I was young when this song came out, my brother and I learned to sing it because it had a curse word in it. I knew the song word for word and we would sing it all the time and pretend that we could play the fiddle. We were used to hearing country so when this song came out it was more like country-rock or bluegrass. The composers for this song were Charlie Daniels, James Wainwright Marsall, Fred Edwards, Charles Hayward, William Digregorio, and John Crain. This song was composed by Daniels after realizing that the band didn’t have a fiddle song on the album. The band took a break from recording and when they came back Daniels had come up with the title ‘The Devil went down to Georgia.’ Daniels had said in an interview that it might have come from an old poem he had read in high school. The band started playing and soon they had the song down. The tempo is consider fast country. Then the song moved over to the pop culture of the eighties, and did just as well....
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...Silver Fiddle Construction Risk Management Plan Silver Fiddle Construction Grand Junction, Colorodo (770)468-7414 Sullivan8286@hotmail.com 2/6/2013 Joshua Sullivan Unit 6 Assignment 1 Risk Management Plan (Final Course Project) Assessing and Mitigating Risk Instructor: Denise Eggersman Version # | ImplementedBy | RevisionDate | ApprovedBy | ApprovalDate | Reason | 1.0 | Joshua Sullivan> | 02/03/2013 | <Bolo and Isabella Czopek> | <02/08/2013> | Initial Risk Management Plan draft | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Purpose Of The Risk Management Plan 1 2 risk management Procedure 1 2.1 Process 1 2.2 Risk Identification 1 2.3 Risk Analysis 1 2.3.1 Qualitative Risk Analysis 1 2.3.2 Quantitative Risk Analysis 2 2.4 Risk Response Planning 2 2.5 Risk Monitoring, Controlling, And Reporting 2 3 Risk Management Plan Approval 2 Conclusion 3 APPENDIX A: sWOT ANAYLSIS 4 APPENDIX B: RISK MATRIX …………………….............................................5 APPENDIX C REFERENCES……………………...............................................6 Introduction Purpose Of The Risk Management Plan * A risk is an event or condition that, if it occurs, could have a positive or negative effect on a project’s objectives. Risk Management is the process of identifying, assessing, responding to, monitoring, and reporting risks. This Risk Management Plan defines how risks associated with the Silver...
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...Introduction Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, AKA Nei Mongol Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People’s Republic of China, located in the northern region of the country. “The Mongolians who inhabit the vast plain in the northern part of China have been called the ‘ethnic group of music and poems’” (Jin 92). Mongolian developed a unique singing genre: long songs. Long songs are characterized by a musical characteristic of “a falling and rising melody with a free profound, long and slow rhythm” (Jin 93), which is “melismatically decorated and without a regular beat” (Pegg 43). Long songs have a very long history. “When it was as early as over one thousand years ago, ancestors of the Mongolians migrated from mountains and forests along the banks of Ergun River and onto the Mongolian plateau. Their way of production accordingly turned from hunting to stock raising. Long songs were formed and developed since then” (Sakura). This unique musical style has very deep influence on Mongolian People. “Long songs can be said to reflect features of Mongolian nomadic culture, link closely together Mongolian people’s language, literature, history, religion, mentality, world view ecological view of life and customs, and run throughout Mongolian people’s history and social life” (Sakura). Long songs can be classified into three main musical forms: extended, general and abbreviated. “The extended long song unfolds melodically as a continual linear development. It is characterized...
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...(Your Name) Prof. Horn MUS 100 18 February 2013 Concert Paper 1 These days musicians all feel the need to be performers, complete with pyrotechnic displays, on stage gimmicks, props, and special accoutrements necessary for a live performance, however there are some who still hold to the old staples, of just the instruments, the stage, every day clothes, and a smile; of those performers, even fewer are referred to on a first name basis that is recognized cross genre, and one of those musicians is George. George Strait has been a part of the country music scene since he released his first single in 1981, and his first debut at the rodeo occurred in 1983 when he filled in last minute for Eddie Rabbit; since that date, he has performed at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo ever since. On March 3, 2002 George “closed the Show with the last Rodeo concert in Reliant Astrodome, with a record attendance of 68,266 in the Astrodome, a record that will never be broken” (Georgestrait.com, 2013). It was just George, the Ace in the Hole Band, the instruments, cowboy boots, cowboy hats, wrangler jeans, and smiles. Midway through the performance, former President George Bush interrupted the performance to provide George with an award from the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, and the concert paused briefly as he reminisced about the first time that he set foot on Houston’s rodeo stage. The concert started with an instrumental version of “Deep in the Heart of Texas.” Including...
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...Classical and speeches by popular orators and politicians of the time. Document 5000 Series Document 5000 SeriesThe BIG one. At 679 CDs and growing this is one of the biggest slices of Afro-American music history that you will find anywhere. The complete recorded works of hundreds of blues, gospel, spiritual, boogie-woogie, songster artist; from the late 1800s onwards. Many, many recordings not available elsewhere these are the roots of soul, modern gospel, R&B, rap, black urban vocal music and rock. MISSISSIPPI FIDDLE TUNES and Songs from the 1930s Mississippi Fiddle Tunes and Songs from the 1930s147 Recordings (3 CDs) collected by Herbert Halpert for the Library of Congress in 1939. Primarily conceived as a way to get people and the economy back to work, Roosevelt's WPA arts projects published state tour guides, collected ex-slave narratives, and collected folklore of all sorts, but especially folk music. This set contains the complete fiddle and banjo field recordings collected by Herbert Halpert for his 1939 field trip in Mississippi. Then working with the New York...
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...Music Performance Experience Paper On April 27th 2012 I went to the Stagecoach festival and saw the band Alabama to which I am going to be comparing to what I have learned in class as well as the experience I had during the concert. Alabama is an older country band that is from Fort Payne, Alabama and was founded in 1969. Alabama is known for bringing the country music “band” to the mainstream music scene. In addition Alabama crossed old time traditional country music with southern rock and created a new sound in the early 70s. Alabama uses 2 lead guitars, a rhythm guitar, the fiddle and drums to create their own unique country sound. Alabama sticks to the older country sounds as well as bringing a newer style of music that melds almost seamlessly together, in their song “Mountain Music” they sing about the old country music from the mountains of the east where country music was started and the Carter family pioneered. “Play me some mountain music like grandma and grandpa used to play, then ill float down on the river to a Cajun hideaway,” this opening line from “mountain music” speaks of the old times of country music where Alabama got their sound from. This song sings about the music the artists were brought up listening to with their parents and also gives a little foresight into the Cajun type of country music that came later on after country began spreading from the mountains of the Virginias. “Play some back-home come-on music that comes from the heart, play...
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