RI Fiddle Project: Best of Rhode Island: Community Music Program

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Best of Rhode Island: Community Music Program

Yes, it's true! If you pick up a copy of RI Monthly magazine this month and open to the Best of RI Editor's Pick 2010 for Community Music Program, the winner is Fiddle & Dance Project!

Looking forward to thanking everyone who's helped us get started over the past year: dancers, students, Woodlawn CDC, Community MusicWorks, RISCA, Pawtucket community members, fellow musicians, and YOU for checking in here on this blog!

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UnknownAugust 18, 2010 at 1:33 PM
CONGRATULATIONS!! I am so excited for you!
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what, how & why

Here’s What RI Fiddle Project is about:

-empowering kids, parents, grandparents as learners, teachers & performers

-cultivating leadership among youth and adults in a diverse, under-served community

-strengthening ties within and across peer groups in the community

Here’s How:

-exploring, trying, learning, practicing & sharing fiddle tunes as individuals and as a group

-dancing to this music (eventually, to each other making this music) across generational lines

Here’s Why fiddling and dance:

-these tunes are Old, yet each player has the potential to breathe new life into them—to reinvent them and own them.

-this music is participatory, group-oriented and often purposeful (to get people on their feet, dancing!)

-community dance is about looking other people in the eye, smiling, & then moving together

-the process takes time, just as the goals do—just as building relationships do. Learning fiddling takes focus, commitment & overcoming frustrations—but the results are invaluable

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Best of Rhode Island: Community Music Program

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