![]() ![]() most prolific songwriters, whose work, by extension, appears and is immortalized in so many Warner cartoon shorts. Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor, State, and author of Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save AmericaĪs an animation historian, I'm so pleased to have such a wonderful resource to one of Warner Bros. This is a beautifully researched and rendered story, not only about a moment in American music, but also a cherished relationship between a lifelong tunesmith and his grandson. Jerome, whose songs become a sort of time capsule for vital American musical and cultural history, from Tin Pan Alley to early Hollywood to World War II patriotic blockbusters. Gary May's The Tunesmith brings to vivid life the sights and sounds. ![]() The jam will be streamed on Facebook Live, accessed through Pam’s FB page. We always have lively chat going on and sometimes a “stump the band” situation (we are rarely stumped!) Check it out. This jam is fairly unusual in that we ask for and almost always honor tune suggestions on the FB chat. The jam will be preceded by a short mini concert at 6:45. Tempos will be moderate and chords will be called out the first time through. This is a free, guided “fiddle tune” jam session for all instruments geared toward the intermediate player, Tuesdays from 7-8PM EST. Pam Weeks and I have been hosting an ONLINE jam session and mini concert every Tuesday night. Sounds pretty good, everything considered!Ī REMINDER – Tuesday night online Jam session and mini-concert. We just looked at a bunch of pictures and did the best we could. David, (who is another of Pam’s musical influences for sure) and Pam trade off harmony parts on fiddle.Īt about 5:40 in this video you see Pam playing the “Tennessee Music Box.” What the heck is that you may ask? Well it’s a dulcimer meant to be bowed… here are some words: Our bandmate, Jim Joseph, helped Pam build this one. David my good friend) out in the lobby at the Dance Flurry in 2014. Here’s a silly little video we did with David Kaynor (R.I.P. Her grasp of harmony both instrumentally and vocally always blows me away. I’ve been playing music with Pam for over 30 years, and she still never fails to amaze me! As a teacher she has a unique way of connecting with her students of any age (5 to 90!). If you would like to study mountain dulcimer with Pam, she will be teaching dulcimer at Maine Fiddle Camp in Montville, Maine, during the “June Week” this summer (June 18-23). Read about her bands and recordings on her website HERE. Pam moved to Maine from the Boston area in 1985, and now teaches mountain dulcimer, fiddle, viola, cello, guitar, sax, flute, piano, Celtic harp, ukulele and voice at her studio locations at the Leavitt Institute Building in Turner, ME Bath Dance Works in Bath, ME at home in Bowdoin, ME and through 317 Main Community Music Center in Yarmouth, ME. Her early musical influences and teachers include Allan Block (fiddle), Lorraine Hammond (mountain dulcimer), and Donna Hebert (fiddle). After moving to Boston to attend the BU School of Music and study voice, she moved in a slightly different direction and picked up fiddle and mountain dulcimer, became a street musician, and worked as a singing waitress. Pam began playing guitar and piano during high school in NY state. ![]() Many of these tunes have been picked up by other musicians and are played throughout the U.S. She has composed scores of tunes, jigs, reels, airs, waltzes. She is fiddler and singer in the Maine-based Cajun dance band, Jimmyjo & the Jumbol’Ayuhs ( here’s a sample), sings and plays several instruments in the folk trio, T-Acadie, is fiddler for the Maine contradance band, Scrod Pudding, and performs solo or with guitar player and dance caller Bill Olson. She plays fiddle, mountain dulcimer, guitar, piano, cello, mandolin, flute, saxophone (and more!) and sings! Here are a few words condensed from her website: Pam is an outstanding fiddler, Appalachian (mountain) dulcimer player, singer, and tunesmith from central Maine. PAM WEEKS is a trad musician from central Maine. ![]()
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