Greenville Fiddle Weekend 2014 – Dolce Music Studio

Friday, October 31 – Sunday, November 2, 2014 Greenville, Texas
Bob Wills Fiddle Festival and Contest site click here

Dolce Strings Director: Danette Schuh office: 832-886-1745 cell: 713-542-5428 click here to contact by email
Greenville Suzuki Strings Faculty: Davis Holden and Muriel Kerr

HOTEL – Houston people are staying at the Best Western PLUS Monica Royale Inn and Suites 903-454-3700 www.bestwestern.com/monicaroyale
Free shuttle is provided for festival contestants and participants from the hotel to the contest and festival venues downtown

Fiddle CONTEST participants: register online here BEFORE OCT. 9 to get your free t-shirt!

Interested in the the Bob Wills Fiddle Festival and Contest events? click here

Suzuki Schedule: (will be updated as details are finalized – check back for more information)

Friday 10/31
8:30am – leave from Houston area – meet at LaMothe’s house
11:30am-noon-ish – lunch at Collin Street Bakery take exit 229 off I-45 in Corsicana
3:15pm – Shuttle leaves from Best Western to take Houston people downtown (15 passenger van)
4:15-5:15pm TWINKLING FIDDLES REHEARSAL for Dolce Strings and Greenville Suzuki Strings
Wear your Halloween costume!
Location: Landon Winery Ballroom (in the ballroom inside the winery – NOT the Emerald Ballroom on the corner)
2508 Lee St, Greenville, TX 75401 (903) 454-7878
5:15-6:00pm Trick or Treating at Halloween on the Square in Downtown Greenville
6:00pm – Twinkling Fiddles Suzuki Halloween Flash Mob performance on the Square
Location: on the Square – exact location TBA – details will be given earlier at the rehearsal
6:15pm – Dinner on your own. You can come back to the Landon Winery for the Contest Registration and Fiddlers Kick-Off Jam, or just enjoy the Halloween on the Square activities, haunted house (at 7pm), etc.
8:15pm – shuttle returns to Best Western Hotel (time subject to change)
Saturday 11/1
8:00am Fiddle Contest Registration
9:00am-noon Fiddle Contest
Location: The Texan Theater
2712 Lee Street, Greenville, TX 75401
12:30pm – TWINKLING FIDDLES CONCERT (Dolce Strings and Greenville Suzuki Strings)
Wear jeans and your blue Dolce Strings t-shirt or your red Greenville Suzuki Strings shirt
Location: on stage at the Blue Mesquite Grill
2808 Lee St., Greenville, TX 75401 (903)454-3830
1:00pm Lunch on your own
2:00-5:00pm Fiddle Contest continues and other festival activities
6:00pm – dinner and relaxation TBA
Sunday 11/2
8:00-9:00am PAJAMA PLAY-IN! Dolce Strings and Greenville Suzuki Strings enjoy a fun group class style review session and play-in.
Wear your pajamas, bring your instruments and come ready for games, donuts, and fun!
Location: Bowie Elementary School, Greenville ISD
6005 Stonewall, Greenville, TX 75402
11:00am-4:30pm Fiddle Contest Finals
5:00pm head back to Houston!

Group Concert Repertoire:
Violins, please remember to check which Suzuki pieces you need to review in D Major – down one string – so we can play with the cellos and violas.
Some recordings of OPTIONAL harmony parts are included below. Sheet music can be found in the “Suzuki Duets for Violins” book.
As always in a Suzuki group concert, play the pieces you know and sit down and listen to the ones you don’t!
We anticipate being able to perform all the following repertoire, but some music may have to be cut in the event that the concert is too long. We appreciate your flexibility.

Suzuki Book 1

Twinkle variations (in D Major)
French Folk Song (in D Major)
Lightly Row
Song of the Wind (Song of the Weather variations) Breeze – slower and legato, Wind – normal, Rain – pizz., Hail – col legno – with the stick, Snow – tremolo, Tornado – all down-bow circles, Hurricane – wild and crazy!
Go Tell Aunt Rhody (in D Major) with Fiddle Rhody (Aunt Rhody goes to Texas) variation in D Major
Long, Long Ago book 1 and book 2 with variation (with transition/intro in-between to change keys)
Allegro
Minuet 3-2-3 (the “old” version – unrevised – with the Book 1 Minuet 3 and the minor section from Book 3)
Happy Farmer – Red Wing medley (Happy Farmer first, followed by Red Wing, with a recap of Happy Farmer without repeats)

Suzuki Book 2

Hunter’s Chorus – with pre-twinkle harmony part (Twinkle variation C rhythm on the open D string) and advanced violin harmony part
Witches Dance – with the “dance”

Suzuki Book 3

Humoresque (if time permits)

Fiddle Music

Jimmy Fiddles a Happy Tune
Milk Cow Blues
Still Reeling
Soldier’s Joy
Bow River Fiddling (from Magic Carpet – pre-twinkler part is Twinkle Var. C rhythm on open E string)
‘Bile ‘Em Cabbage Down