OLD-TIME

Tickets will be on sale soon for the 52nd Santa Barbara Old-Time Fiddlers' Festival on Saturday October 5th in Goleta. Bosco Takaki, from Japan,  is one of the headliners at the festival. Check out the clip above.  More information will be available closer to the festival, but you can go to their website for details. https://fiddlersfestival.org/

The festival also includes a contest with the following categories:

• Old-Time Fiddle
• Old-Time Banjo (Clawhammer, 2-finger, 3-finger)
• Traditional Old-Time Singing (with or without accompaniment)
• Youth Fiddle (4-15)
• Youth Banjo (4-15)
• Old-Time Band
• Old-Time Guitar
• Old-Time Mandolin
• Misc. Instruments (dulcimer, harmonica, bones, etc.)

David Bragger is the artistic director for the festival. He is a performer, recording artist and instructor of old-time music on  fiddle and banjo. He teaches private lessons in-person and online. David has written articles and been featured in Strings Magazine, Banjo Newsletter, Fiddler Magazine and other publications.
David is the director of the UCLA Old-Time String Band Ensemble and the artistic director of the Santa Barbara Old-Time Fiddlers’ Festival. David is also the founder of the critically acclaimed old-time music record label Tiki Parlour Recordings where he produces, records and films many of today's greatest traditional musicians.
David is also a wildly  popular workshop instructor and performer at national and international  music festivals.

In the meantime, here is David Bragger playing old-time music on a Stradivarius violin. 

Before that happens, take a listen to the Paine Trio's version of Sal's Got Mud Between Her Toes.