IASD has a Fiddle Club!
An exciting new program has begun in the Indiana Area School District for stringed instrument players and anyone interested in playing alternative styles of stringed music. The IASD Fiddle Club offers opportunities for students to play jazz, Irish, old-timey, mariachi, bluegrass, groove, Appalachian, and other world music styles. This program includes students in grades 3 – 12 as well as students and adults from the Indiana and IUP music community. IASD Fiddle Club meets on Mondays from 6 – 7:30 PM in the art gallery and music room at Horace Mann Elementary School, beginning on Monday, January 22. We will meet for eight Mondays, based on the schedule below. Each week a different guest artist from our community is featured and coaches us on how to play in the style of his/her expertise. We also form small ensembles within our group and rehearse in these different styles each week.
The Fiddle Club schedule for 2007 is as follows:
January 22, 2007 6 – 7:30 PM Joe Dinwiddie (Appalachian) January 29, 2007
6 - 7:30 PM Stephanie Everett (Irish)
February 12, 2007 6 - 7:30 PM Stanley Chepaitis (Jazz) February 19, 2007 6 - 7:30 PM Neal Keefer (Old-timey) February 26, 2007 6 - 7:30 PM Carl Rahkonen (Finnish) March 12, 2007 6 - 7:30 PM J. Laird (Mariachi) March 19, 2007 6 - 7:30 PM Tom McLaughlin (Bagpiper) March 26, 2007 6 - 7:30 PM Final Performance 
For further information, email Ms. Laird at jlaird@iasd.cc
