You Can be a FiddleStar

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

Lester here. You know what day it is.

#barkbox #spacejam #shihtzu #shihtzusofinstagram #blackdog (at Ridgetop, Tennessee)
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Posted 140 weeks ago

It’s fiddle workshop Saturday again already, my friends!

Int/Adv class will cover the very cool and swingy Little Rock Getaway and all things key of A through East Virginia Blues.

Beginner class will work on Tennessee Waltz and Will the Circle Be Unbroken.

The workshops are this Saturday the 17th but the workshops are recorded so you don’t have to attend live. Plus I’ll send additional videos and any other supplemental stuff you might need. Go to www.FiddleStar.com and click on the Bluegrass Skill Builder page to sign up. Time to expand your repertoire and do new warmups and exercises with me, which is way more fun than reading them out of a book.

New motto: More fun than reading exercises out of a book or your money back!

#fiddle #fiddlestar #bluegrass #oldtime #swing #fiddleworkshop #littlerockgetaway #willthecirclebeunbroken #tennesseewaltz (at Fiddlestar Camps)
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Posted 140 weeks ago
<p>This is probably the weirdest post I’ve ever made. But I have questions and I’m putting this out to you, my friends, for some help. Earlier today during her lesson, @addykeisel and I were working on an instrumental arrangement of Devil Went Down to Georgia and we were grabbing some licks from the sequel that MOC recorded a couple of decades ago. And we both noticed that at the 2:51 mark of the video on YouTube there is a still shot of what appears to be an Asian baby in the middle of the epic hellfire scenes of Travis Tritt singing and MOC playing wild arpeggios. These are actual screen shots from 2:50, 2:55, and last, from 2:51 where the baby inexplicably appears. If you know what’s going on here, I demand you tell me.</p>

<p>#thedevilcamebacktogeorgia #subliminalbaby #fiddle #hellfire #travistritt  (at Fiddlestar Camps)<br/>
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This is probably the weirdest post I’ve ever made. But I have questions and I’m putting this out to you, my friends, for some help. Earlier today during her lesson, @addykeisel and I were working on an instrumental arrangement of Devil Went Down to Georgia and we were grabbing some licks from the sequel that MOC recorded a couple of decades ago. And we both noticed that at the 2:51 mark of the video on YouTube there is a still shot of what appears to be an Asian baby in the middle of the epic hellfire scenes of Travis Tritt singing and MOC playing wild arpeggios. These are actual screen shots from 2:50, 2:55, and last, from 2:51 where the baby inexplicably appears. If you know what’s going on here, I demand you tell me.

#thedevilcamebacktogeorgia #subliminalbaby #fiddle #hellfire #travistritt (at Fiddlestar Camps)
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Posted 141 weeks ago

Hey friends - BIG ANNOUNCEMENT AND REQUEST!

In a couple of weeks I start filming instructional videos for fiddle video.com and I am SO excited! I am joining the staff to teach Texas and contest style as well as bluegrass and I need your help. Please let me know in the comments or dm me what tunes and songs you’d be interested in having me teach and I’ll see if I can add some of them to the already awesome list I’ve put together.

I’m so honored to be a part of this teacher lineup. If you haven’t already become a member, consider joining up soon so you can access all of the things I’ll be contributing. And of course, tell them I sent you. 😉

#fiddlevideo #tunes #songs #fiddle #fiddlestar #bluegrass #texasstyle #fiddlecontest (at Fiddlestar Camps)
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Posted 141 weeks ago
<p>One of the best things about being a teacher is that when your students grow up to be awesome, you can tell everyone you had something to do with it, even if it was mostly genetics and good parenting. Congratulations @shan_e_hunt on being awesome and I’m glad we got to hang out the other day. Mr. Adam and I love you dearly and are always so proud of you.</p>

<p>(Oh, and hey @quebesisters and @sstipp it was great to run into you along the way, speaking of awesome people. 💜) (at Carter Vintage Guitars)<br/>
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One of the best things about being a teacher is that when your students grow up to be awesome, you can tell everyone you had something to do with it, even if it was mostly genetics and good parenting. Congratulations @shan_e_hunt on being awesome and I’m glad we got to hang out the other day. Mr. Adam and I love you dearly and are always so proud of you.

(Oh, and hey @quebesisters and @sstipp it was great to run into you along the way, speaking of awesome people. 💜) (at Carter Vintage Guitars)
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Posted 141 weeks ago
<p>Lester here. My friend Ann Myers painted my portrait. She can paint your portrait too. (I can’t guarantee it would be this handsome - she did have a lot to work with in my case.) </p>

<p>Really though, thanks Annie. It’s amazing to have this incredible piece of art that so perfectly captures my best buddy.</p>

<p>If anyone wants a portrait of their best buddy, find Ann Myers on Facebook and choose her to paint one for you.</p>

<p>#shihtzu #shihtzusofinstagram #oilpainting #lesterpawfus  (at Fiddlestar Camps)<br/>
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Lester here. My friend Ann Myers painted my portrait. She can paint your portrait too. (I can’t guarantee it would be this handsome - she did have a lot to work with in my case.)

Really though, thanks Annie. It’s amazing to have this incredible piece of art that so perfectly captures my best buddy.

If anyone wants a portrait of their best buddy, find Ann Myers on Facebook and choose her to paint one for you.

#shihtzu #shihtzusofinstagram #oilpainting #lesterpawfus (at Fiddlestar Camps)
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Posted 142 weeks ago
<p>If I’m slow to return your email, just understand what I’m up against.</p>

<p>#shihtzu #lesterpawfus #shihtzusofinstagram #blackdog #wfh  (at Fiddlestar Camps)<br/>
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If I’m slow to return your email, just understand what I’m up against.

#shihtzu #lesterpawfus #shihtzusofinstagram #blackdog #wfh (at Fiddlestar Camps)
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Posted 142 weeks ago
<p>Family day. ❤️ (at Greenbrier, Tennessee)<br/>
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Family day. ❤️ (at Greenbrier, Tennessee)
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Posted 142 weeks ago
<p>A great night celebrating the talented and insanely hard working @maddiedentonmusic at her album release party at the @stationinnnashville. I’m so proud of this amazing woman - she’s a badass fiddle chick but she’s also a badass person who brings joy wherever she goes. I’m proud to know her and you should get to know her, if you haven’t already. </p>

<p>Also, great to reunite with my darlings from @theviolinshop Tyler and Brian as well as outgoing IBMA executive director @paulschiminger and incoming Station Inn proprietor Josh Ulbrich. I mean, it was everything you can hope for in a Nashville Thursday evening.</p>

<p>#maddiedenton #bluegrass #stationinn </p>

<p> (at Station Inn)<br/>
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A great night celebrating the talented and insanely hard working @maddiedentonmusic at her album release party at the @stationinnnashville. I’m so proud of this amazing woman - she’s a badass fiddle chick but she’s also a badass person who brings joy wherever she goes. I’m proud to know her and you should get to know her, if you haven’t already.

Also, great to reunite with my darlings from @theviolinshop Tyler and Brian as well as outgoing IBMA executive director @paulschiminger and incoming Station Inn proprietor Josh Ulbrich. I mean, it was everything you can hope for in a Nashville Thursday evening.

#maddiedenton #bluegrass #stationinn

(at Station Inn)
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Posted 142 weeks ago

Nashville Jam Camp. SOLD OUT.

#gratitude #nashvilleacousticcamps #bluegrass #fiddle #banjo #mandolin #guitar #dobro #bass (at Fiddlestar Camps)
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Posted 142 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...