Recently I played with Canadian hurdy-gurdy player Barb Dwyer (yes, she is a prickly person) at the Annual Ball in my home town (village) The Channon in Northern New South Wales, Australia.
This year’s theme was “Medieval” and just about everyone came in costume and appropriate mindset. The music and general entertainment was most suitable, too.
Barb began with solo hurdy-gurdy and vocals, playing tunes from far away in time and space. I joined for the next part of the set, playing my ca. 1860’s Mirecourt double bass, using both arco and pizzicato techniques as well as string slaps on the up-tempo dance numbers.
The dance floor was packed and it’s amazing how much rhythm and thump one can get out of hurdy-gurdy, vocals and double bass. In the true sense of the expression “a ball was had by all.”
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