Hi! Welcome to my vlog. Today I want to talk a little bit about a musician that influenced me a lot. I’m not really sure where he is. It’s kind of an interesting story. When I first started playing the fiddle, when I was about 14 so probably the late 80’s, there was a character...
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That is a tune by Eidus Naquin, a legendary musician from Mamou, Louisiana. He sang a lot of old ballads and played a lot of old really obscured archaic tunes with very interesting stories about kings, queens, magical worlds, and things like that. Definitely some ties to France...
Hi, I’m Mitch Reed and welcome to my vlog. My vlog today is on an old friend of mine who taught me a lot about Cajun fiddle when I was young. He was almost really like a grandfather to me but also a very good friend.
His name was Adner Ortego and he was from Grand...
Hi! I’m Mitch Reed. My vlog this week is on the legendary Cajun fiddler Cheese Read from Mamou, Louisiana, and he’s a distant cousin of mine, and the Reads were Scotch-Irish people who came down to Louisiana during the Spanish Land Grants. A lot of Scotch Irish came down at that time...
Hi, I’m Mitch Reed, welcome to my vlog. Today I’m going to talk about going to a jam and being able to bring your fiddle and play chords behind the accordion, the singer, and all that stuff. So basically, how to second at a Cajun jam, the things to think about, and what to look for....
Hi! Welcome to my vlog. Today I wanted to discuss a couple of things about fiddle maintenance. We are in the beginning part of January and in Southwest Louisiana we have a lot of cold fronts that come through but it gets hot then cold, hot and cold, and recently a lot of my students have been...
Hi, I’m Mitch Reed and today my vlog is on the Cajun & Creole polka. Definitely a type of dance that has died out down here in Louisiana. I don’t know anybody who can dance the Cajun polka or Creole polka. But it definitely was played and the old people that were recorded playing...
Hi, I’m Mitch Reed…Welcome to The Vlog! Today I thought I would talk a little bit about something that I get a lot of questions about. Doesn’t have a whole lot to do with actually playing the fiddle but it’s just keeping up your fiddle.
Sometimes you might notice when...
Hi, I’m Mitch Reed…welcome to my Vlog! Today I wanted to tell a little bit of a story about what I just finished doing. I went on a trip with Michael Doucet and David Doucet. We went to Appalachia and we got together with a guy named Chester McMillan and he was Tommy Jarrell’s...
[0:01] Hello there! You can’t see my face because I have the camera focused on my feet… Today's vlog is on tapping your foot while playing your fiddle. A lot of people have asked me questions about it so I thought I would do a vlog on it and just basically explain what I do and how...
It’s the week of St. Patrick’s day and I thought it might be a little interesting to talk about the Irish influence in Cajun music or some people call it Scotch-Irish, Scotch-Irish being more of the people who settled the Appalachian mountains from Northern Ireland. And, we also did...
That was a tune called “The Bigfoot Reel” and I wrote this tune after being chased out of the woods at my family camp right outside of Melville, Louisiana, by a Sasquatch or a Bigfoot. I didn’t really know what it was at the time and did some research and found out that’s...