Fiddle Fest Comes To UTC This Saturday
Award-winning fiddlers Jim Wood and John Boulware, along with guitarist Inge Wood, are hosting the UTC Fiddle Fest this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and if you love the fiddle, this is exactly where you need to be.
The Fiddle Fest will be a day-long festival learning about and playing American fiddle tunes and folk music in an informal orchestra setting with musical arrangements of the tunes made by Jim Wood.
Jim Wood is a master with a fiddle in his hands. He has won over 160 first prizes in folk music competitions, including at least seven fiddle championships. His pupil, John Boulware, is also a Tennessee state champion in fiddling. Along with Jim’s wife Inge Wood, all three of these clinicians are multi-instrumentalists.
If you are a player of a string instrument, then you definitely don’t want to give up on this opportunity to learn from these experts.
The Fiddle Fest Orchestra is open to players of violin, viola, cello, and guitar at the intermediate to advanced levels for grades 9 all the way up to adulthood. The ability to read music is required. Pre-registration is available at utcmusic.org, then click the button for UTC Fiddle Festival. The Festival will conclude with a public free concert at 5 p.m. in the Roland Hayes Concert Hall on the UTC campus.
UTC Fiddle Fest and Fiddle Orchestra
Saturday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Roland Hayes Concert Hall
752 Vine St. on the UTC Campus
www.utcmusic.org
for information/registration