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Would you like to play traditional dance music in a fun environment without the need for sheet music, music stands, a conductor, or any other normal orchestra things? Come on down to the Philly Waldorf Fiddle Club! Students will learn a tune or two each meeting and prepare arrangements to perform at the Waldorf May Fair. Instruction will also be given on improvising, jamming, and backing up your friends. Open to all stringed instruments, other instruments allowed by inquiry. At least one year of study on an instrument is recommended. Nathan Bishop is a fiddler, improviser, and teacher based in Philadelphia. An eclectic performer, he plays violin and viola in his genre-hopping string trio, Midnight on the Water, his experimental Irish folk trio, Faoileán, and baroque violin in La Fiocco. He is a past artist-in-residence at the Mignolo Arts Center and with JoAnna Mendl Shaw’s the Equus Project, where he paired live fiddle with self-composed soundscapes to accompany dance and theater works. He founded the bi-weekly Irish seisiún at Flounder Brewing Co. in Hillsborough, NJ, and co-founded When Waves Collide, a new music and dance festival. His first album with Faoileán, Far Hills, has received over 300,000 listens across streaming platforms. He has presented workshops on playing and teaching the fiddle at the University of New Hampshire and NJASTA and regularly teaches at Folk College and the Ashokan Center. A Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts graduate, he studied fiddle with Cleek Schrey and plays on the 46th Håkedal hardanger d’amore.
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The Waldorf School of Philadelphia
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6000 Wayne Avenue
Philadelphia, PA
19144
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