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RI Fiddle Project is based in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Pawtucket, RI. We play music because we like the way it sounds, and we dance because it's fun to move together. But just as importantly, the process empowers learners and teachers, cultivates leadership and strengthens neighborhood ties. Free musical programming offered to participants includes fiddle lessons and intergenerational community dances.
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
About Me
- RI Fiddle Project
- Pawtucket, RI, United States
- Rachel Panitch is 'fiddler-in-residence' in Pawtucket, RI. She also performs in numerous folk and roots-inspired bands around the state. In 2009, she completed a two-year fellowship with Community MusicWorks in Providence, RI and continues on staff there as a Resident Musician/Administrator.
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