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July 01, 2009 - Roland White first experienced fiddle music in 1976, by the National Oldtime Fiddlers of Oregon at a small country grange hall in Mt. Hood Oregon. He was instantly intrigued and captivated by the catchy upbeat melodies known as fiddle tunes. Since that time Roland has studied and learned hundreds of fiddle tunes from Irish, Celtic and American fiddle styles.
In the early 80's he was selected to demonstrate the music of the pioneers for the National Park Service in the living history program at the Lewis and Clark National Memorial in Astoria Oregon. He has performed numerous times at the North West Folk Life Festival in Seattle Washington and has competed in the National Fiddle Contest in Weiser Idaho. He is a recording artist having participated on two folk music CD’s of fiddle and mandolin music.
Over the years he has attended numerous fiddle workshops taught by such masters of fiddling , as Kevin Burke, Byron Berline, Carol Anne Wheeler, Mark Savoy, Frank Ferrell, Alan Jabour, Dick Barrett, Benny Thomasson and a special masters class with world renown fiddler and recording artist,
Mark O Conner.
Currently Roland is now accepting students for fiddle and mandolin lessons. He is also performing for small musical concerts, events, weddings, parties or dances. He has just completed a series of Celtic Fiddle Concerts for the Deschutes County Libraries in 5 locations.
For information he can be reached at: 541-647-4789 or roland ( @ ) coinet dot com
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I am playing the violin (Fiddle), that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.Itzhak Perlman
