You Can be a FiddleStar

I post things about fiddling. And how we can all be better at it.

<p>Lester here. Happy #tongueouttuesday from me, and my mom I guess.</p>

<p>#shihtzu #shihtzusofinstagram #blackdog #tot #lesterpawfus  (at Fiddlestar Camps)<br/>
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CSsWxueLawk/?utm_medium=tumblr">https://www.instagram.com/p/CSsWxueLawk/?utm_medium=tumblr</a></p>

Lester here. Happy #tongueouttuesday from me, and my mom I guess.

#shihtzu #shihtzusofinstagram #blackdog #tot #lesterpawfus (at Fiddlestar Camps)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSsWxueLawk/?utm_medium=tumblr

Posted 136 weeks ago
<p>I took a day off yesterday. Or at least got really close to it. I didn’t teach any lessons and I only sent two work emails which is practically a tropical vacation, relatively speaking. I went to @mckaysnashville and grabbed a few books - here they are. </p>

<p>Two small points.<br/>
1) This ancient music encyclopedia has a whole section on musicians and I’ve yet to find a woman in there. I’ll keep looking.<br/>
2) I generally don’t buy anything with a rhyming title but this bbq cookbook looks fantastic on the inside so I let it slide.</p>

<p>#bookhaul #inagarten #annpatchett #usedbooks  (at Nashville, Tennessee)<br/>
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CSnB9w7Lrm4/?utm_medium=tumblr">https://www.instagram.com/p/CSnB9w7Lrm4/?utm_medium=tumblr</a></p>

I took a day off yesterday. Or at least got really close to it. I didn’t teach any lessons and I only sent two work emails which is practically a tropical vacation, relatively speaking. I went to @mckaysnashville and grabbed a few books - here they are.

Two small points.
1) This ancient music encyclopedia has a whole section on musicians and I’ve yet to find a woman in there. I’ll keep looking.
2) I generally don’t buy anything with a rhyming title but this bbq cookbook looks fantastic on the inside so I let it slide.

#bookhaul #inagarten #annpatchett #usedbooks (at Nashville, Tennessee)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSnB9w7Lrm4/?utm_medium=tumblr

Posted 136 weeks ago
<p>This post is pretty much for @carlyp1222 but I figured I’d share it with all of you. Here I am, modeling a solid gold A’s pendant. (Zoom in if you need to.) Yes, that would be the Oakland Athletics of the American League of Major League Baseball. This is the team of my childhood. This is the team my Papa Buzz and I used to go watch when I’d visit him every summer. This is the team @jmaymay_ and I followed throughout our childhoods in between learning Texas style tunes from third generation jam tapes. This is the team whose cards I collected when I was in the 8th grade. And this is the pendant my mother used to own (it was a very fancy gift that she received back in the day) which she recently passed down to me. She owned it because she used to be a huge A’s fan and now she isn’t but this is the proof that she was, for at least a decade or more, an Athletics girl through and through. And Carly, this is the proof - you’ve always been right about this! Sure, we’re all Giants fans now, but the A’s will always have part of my heart. And @dancing_mur will always have to admit that this was, at some point, her team. 💚 </p>

<p>#oaklandasbaseball #solidgold #notplated #americanleague #designatedhitter #bashbrothers  (at Ridgetop, Tennessee)<br/>
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CSiTqCQrB9v/?utm_medium=tumblr">https://www.instagram.com/p/CSiTqCQrB9v/?utm_medium=tumblr</a></p>

This post is pretty much for @carlyp1222 but I figured I’d share it with all of you. Here I am, modeling a solid gold A’s pendant. (Zoom in if you need to.) Yes, that would be the Oakland Athletics of the American League of Major League Baseball. This is the team of my childhood. This is the team my Papa Buzz and I used to go watch when I’d visit him every summer. This is the team @jmaymay_ and I followed throughout our childhoods in between learning Texas style tunes from third generation jam tapes. This is the team whose cards I collected when I was in the 8th grade. And this is the pendant my mother used to own (it was a very fancy gift that she received back in the day) which she recently passed down to me. She owned it because she used to be a huge A’s fan and now she isn’t but this is the proof that she was, for at least a decade or more, an Athletics girl through and through. And Carly, this is the proof - you’ve always been right about this! Sure, we’re all Giants fans now, but the A’s will always have part of my heart. And @dancing_mur will always have to admit that this was, at some point, her team. 💚

#oaklandasbaseball #solidgold #notplated #americanleague #designatedhitter #bashbrothers (at Ridgetop, Tennessee)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSiTqCQrB9v/?utm_medium=tumblr

Posted 136 weeks ago

Lester here! Guess what day it is? We 💙 an armadillo.

#barkbox #shihtzu #shihtzusofinstagram #shihtzus #blackdog #armadillo #lesterpawfus (at Ridgetop, Tennessee)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSfv6XHgfIW/?utm_medium=tumblr

Posted 136 weeks ago
<p>It’s Zoom fiddle workshop time again my friends! Next Saturday the 21st. But you don’t have to attend live because the sessions are recorded. </p>

<p>*Beginner Class - Faded Love and intro to vibrato and droning strings</p>

<p>*Int/Adv Class - Old Dangerfield and cool stuff in E</p>

<p>Get more info and sign up at <a href="http://www.fiddlestar.com">www.fiddlestar.com</a>. Click on the Bluegrass Skill Builder Workshops page. And ask me any other questions you might have right here in the comments. Please join me. These are so fun and I promise you’ll learn something useful. And have a few laughs.</p>

<p>#fiddle #fiddlestar #fiddlelessons #zoomworkshops #oldtime #bluegrass #westernswing #bobwills  (at Fiddlestar Camps)<br/>
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CSdHBW6r-MY/?utm_medium=tumblr">https://www.instagram.com/p/CSdHBW6r-MY/?utm_medium=tumblr</a></p>

It’s Zoom fiddle workshop time again my friends! Next Saturday the 21st. But you don’t have to attend live because the sessions are recorded.

*Beginner Class - Faded Love and intro to vibrato and droning strings

*Int/Adv Class - Old Dangerfield and cool stuff in E

Get more info and sign up at www.fiddlestar.com. Click on the Bluegrass Skill Builder Workshops page. And ask me any other questions you might have right here in the comments. Please join me. These are so fun and I promise you’ll learn something useful. And have a few laughs.

#fiddle #fiddlestar #fiddlelessons #zoomworkshops #oldtime #bluegrass #westernswing #bobwills (at Fiddlestar Camps)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSdHBW6r-MY/?utm_medium=tumblr

Posted 137 weeks ago
<p>Hi friends and old time music lovers! Registration for Nashville Fiddle Banjo Camp (January 13-16, 2022) opens September 1st at 9am central so please, mark your calendars. Our last camp sold out in six minutes. 😬 </p>

<p>Remember, you can come as a fiddle banjo pair or come alone and we’ll pair you up. We’ve also gone a little overboard and expanded the teacher lineup and I just don’t know if all of this awesomeness can be contained in our little house, but we’re gonna give our best shot. Vaccines and negative tests will be required because, well, we love each and every one of you. <a href="https://www.nashvilleacousticcamps.com/fiddle-banjo-camp.php">https://www.nashvilleacousticcamps.com/fiddle-banjo-camp.php</a></p>

<p>@clawhammerist @georgefiddle @rachelbaiman @lamey_palvey #frankevans  (at Fiddlestar Camps)<br/>
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CSaKMAXrtBb/?utm_medium=tumblr">https://www.instagram.com/p/CSaKMAXrtBb/?utm_medium=tumblr</a></p>

Hi friends and old time music lovers! Registration for Nashville Fiddle Banjo Camp (January 13-16, 2022) opens September 1st at 9am central so please, mark your calendars. Our last camp sold out in six minutes. 😬

Remember, you can come as a fiddle banjo pair or come alone and we’ll pair you up. We’ve also gone a little overboard and expanded the teacher lineup and I just don’t know if all of this awesomeness can be contained in our little house, but we’re gonna give our best shot. Vaccines and negative tests will be required because, well, we love each and every one of you. https://www.nashvilleacousticcamps.com/fiddle-banjo-camp.php

@clawhammerist @georgefiddle @rachelbaiman @lamey_palvey #frankevans (at Fiddlestar Camps)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSaKMAXrtBb/?utm_medium=tumblr

Posted 137 weeks ago
<p>Lester and I are spending Sunday changing the permissions on all my lesson videos because YouTube just decided to switch all unlisted videos uploaded before 2017 to private. For no reason that I can figure. So now my students can no longer access those videos. And the only way to fix it is one video at a time. I have at least 400 of these videos. I’m going to be honest with you, the fiddle teacher life is not always as glamorous as I make it look. </p>

<p>#bts #fiddle #fiddlestar #lesterpawfus #sundayscaries #fiddleteacher  (at Fiddlestar Camps)<br/>
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CSVH8_urAay/?utm_medium=tumblr">https://www.instagram.com/p/CSVH8_urAay/?utm_medium=tumblr</a></p>

Lester and I are spending Sunday changing the permissions on all my lesson videos because YouTube just decided to switch all unlisted videos uploaded before 2017 to private. For no reason that I can figure. So now my students can no longer access those videos. And the only way to fix it is one video at a time. I have at least 400 of these videos. I’m going to be honest with you, the fiddle teacher life is not always as glamorous as I make it look.

#bts #fiddle #fiddlestar #lesterpawfus #sundayscaries #fiddleteacher (at Fiddlestar Camps)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSVH8_urAay/?utm_medium=tumblr

Posted 137 weeks ago
<p>Lester here with my Saturday photo dump - this is the fun stuff I did this week!</p>

<p>#shihtzu #shihtzusofinstagram #lesterpawfus #blackdog  (at Ridgetop, Tennessee)<br/>
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CSSxu9XrO8i/?utm_medium=tumblr">https://www.instagram.com/p/CSSxu9XrO8i/?utm_medium=tumblr</a></p>

Lester here with my Saturday photo dump - this is the fun stuff I did this week!

#shihtzu #shihtzusofinstagram #lesterpawfus #blackdog (at Ridgetop, Tennessee)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSSxu9XrO8i/?utm_medium=tumblr

Posted 137 weeks ago
<p>This is probably a dorky thing to post on main but I don’t care. I got this email from Zoom wishing me a happy Zoomiversary which means it’s been a year since I started the Skill Builder Workshops and that means it’s been a year since I launched the thing that turned out to be one of the most meaningful things I’ve done in my entire career. From the weekly hour long workshops to the now longer monthly sessions, I have loved every minute of getting to teach all of you out there. All of the double stop ladders, anteaters, nikki nik nik nus, filler licks, and everything else, it’s been amazing. </p>

<p>Thank you to each and every one of you who joined me live or bought the recordings after the fact. You really saved me (you actually have no idea how much those weekly workshops helped me focus and stay enthusiastic throughout the darkest of times) last year and continue to amaze and inspire me this year and beyond. I love you all.</p>

<p>#fiddle #fiddlestar #fiddlelessons #zoomworkshops #bluegrass #oldtime  (at Fiddlestar Camps)<br/>
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CSQZFNAryoP/?utm_medium=tumblr">https://www.instagram.com/p/CSQZFNAryoP/?utm_medium=tumblr</a></p>

This is probably a dorky thing to post on main but I don’t care. I got this email from Zoom wishing me a happy Zoomiversary which means it’s been a year since I started the Skill Builder Workshops and that means it’s been a year since I launched the thing that turned out to be one of the most meaningful things I’ve done in my entire career. From the weekly hour long workshops to the now longer monthly sessions, I have loved every minute of getting to teach all of you out there. All of the double stop ladders, anteaters, nikki nik nik nus, filler licks, and everything else, it’s been amazing.

Thank you to each and every one of you who joined me live or bought the recordings after the fact. You really saved me (you actually have no idea how much those weekly workshops helped me focus and stay enthusiastic throughout the darkest of times) last year and continue to amaze and inspire me this year and beyond. I love you all.

#fiddle #fiddlestar #fiddlelessons #zoomworkshops #bluegrass #oldtime (at Fiddlestar Camps)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSQZFNAryoP/?utm_medium=tumblr

Posted 137 weeks ago
<p>Hi friends! Just going to take a quick break from my weekly video series’ because, you know, I just need a little time to get everything ready for our first camps back and still teach all my regular lessons. #texasstyletuesday and #waltzwednesday will be back soon, I promise! Lester and I love you all. (at Fiddlestar Camps)<br/>
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CSIUe2tLs0Q/?utm_medium=tumblr">https://www.instagram.com/p/CSIUe2tLs0Q/?utm_medium=tumblr</a></p>

Hi friends! Just going to take a quick break from my weekly video series’ because, you know, I just need a little time to get everything ready for our first camps back and still teach all my regular lessons. #texasstyletuesday and #waltzwednesday will be back soon, I promise! Lester and I love you all. (at Fiddlestar Camps)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSIUe2tLs0Q/?utm_medium=tumblr

Posted 138 weeks ago

 1/25/13
I am excited to embark on a new chapter of my working life - I recently gave my notice to the Pam Tillis organization and will no longer be touring with her or Lorrie Morgan (on their awesome Grits and Glamour Tour). I must admit, I'm sad to be leaving. It's been an incredible four years and I have learned so much. Thanks to Pam, her amazing husband/manager Matt Spicher, and my bandmates, especially the lovely and talented Mary Sue Englund, with whom I spent more time over the last few years than I did with my husband. And I wouldn't trade a minute of it...