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Christie wrote a new blog post: Wildwood Flower

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 03:52:11 +0000

Christie wrote a new blog post: Wildwood Flower Christie Burns: vocals, hammered dulcimer, mountain dulcimer (3), guitar(4, 8) Kara Miscio: vocals | Brian Miscio: guitar (2, 3, 6), vocals | Charles Allison: vocals Lynn Wamp: bass (4, 9) | Matt Evans: banjo (8) | Lisa Ferguson: hammered dulcimer (10) Jack Magee: fiddle (4) | Aaron O'Rourke: guitar (1, 5), mountain dulcimer (7) Recorded at [...]

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Christie wrote a new blog post: If you don't know Naragonia, you haven't danced in Belgium.

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 23:03:37 +0000

Christie wrote a new blog post: If you don't know Naragonia, you haven't danced in Belgium. � That's not exactly true, because the couple at the core of Naragonia, Toon and Pascale, are arriving to a party that had already gotten started by the folk dance bands that came before in Flanders... But with the way people talk about Naragonia in the traditional music circles around Belgium, you'd think it was the capital [...]

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Christie posted an update: Starting a new blog, and looking forward to inviting some collaborators in on it!

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:48:22 +0000

Christie posted an update: Starting a new blog, and looking forward to inviting some collaborators in on it!

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Christie wrote a new blog post: Going back to Belgium, bigger and better (with John and Lon) this time!

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:20:09 +0000

Christie wrote a new blog post: Going back to Belgium, bigger and better (with John and Lon) this time! I'm thrilled to be invited back to teach hammered dulcimer at MuziekMozaiek's music camp in Gooik this August. It'll be my fourth time in Belgium, and every time I go back, I do a little bit more, connect with more musicians, see more of the country, (try a few more beers) etc. Last summer, there were [...]

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Christie wrote a new blog post: Sail Away Ladies (reworked.) (very.)

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:15:52 +0000

Christie wrote a new blog post: Sail Away Ladies (reworked.) (very.) Well here's the latest on one of my all-time favorites. This is me and Kara Miscio practicing a whole new set of chords, harmonies, and rhythms for Sail Away Ladies. We'll take these ideas to the studio this week and see if we can get a good take! My new CD is coming, slowly but [...]

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Christie wrote a new blog post: Spring Augusta

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:10:43 +0000

Christie wrote a new blog post: Spring Augusta This is my last day at this wonderful week at the Augusta Heritage Center in Elkins, WV. I've been teaching the intermediate hammered dulcimer class, and really enjoying my hardworking students, and getting to know all the other instructors here. The music has been wonderful!! Definitely a highlight has been playing fiddle next to Gerry Milnes (who [...]

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Christie wrote a new blog post: Westfork Gals, Lazy Spring Afternoon Version

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:01:09 +0000

Christie wrote a new blog post: Westfork Gals, Lazy Spring Afternoon Version Actually, it's hardly a lazy afternoon... In fact, I'm enjoying what feels like a miracle that I can take a moment to play a dulcimer and have fun improvising a bit with a tune, in the midst of all the folk school work. I'm pretty much obsessed with the Folk School of Chattanooga and all its potential [...]

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Christie wrote a new blog post: This isn't the Tomo Yamaguchi I was looking for.

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:46:47 +0000

Christie wrote a new blog post: This isn't the Tomo Yamaguchi I was looking for. But it's a good one!!
meow.

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Christie wrote a new blog post: Chicky Run (bicycle song)

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:34:50 +0000

Christie wrote a new blog post: Chicky Run (bicycle song) Chattanooga is a great bicycle town. Now that my office at the folk school is pretty much put together (I'll be having to haul less stuff back and forth), and now that the weather's getting better, I'm looking forward to daily bicycle commutes-- And counting on my bike to be the official vehicle of my [...]

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Christie wrote a new blog post: Dodecamedita, Gooik, Belgium, 2009.

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:58:32 +0000

Christie wrote a new blog post: Dodecamedita, Gooik, Belgium, 2009. What a wonderful surprise in my mailbox a few days ago, right in the dead of winter, a cd reminder of a summer week spent in Gooik, Belgium. I've written on this blog before about working with Maarten Decombel , and what a pleasure it was to get to know his music. This recording is from the [...]

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Christie wrote a new blog post: Evelyn Glennie, deaf musician

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:13:59 +0000

Christie wrote a new blog post: Evelyn Glennie, deaf musician This is too important. Must share.

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Christie wrote a new blog post: Sail Away Ladies

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:54:02 +0000

Christie wrote a new blog post: Sail Away Ladies More progress on the RC-50, and still loving it. This was my first time trying a whole song in live performance mode. I mean, tonight my only audience was a sleeping Simba, but still I played it as though it were a performance. Up 'til now it's just been playing with loops and not giving [...]

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Christie wrote a new blog post: Silent Night

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:59:07 +0000

Christie wrote a new blog post: Silent Night More fun with the Boss RC-50. Still learning how the darn thing works... Haven't figured out starts or endings yet, but anyway, it's loads of fun!

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Christie wrote a new blog post: Merry Merry Merry Merry Merry

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:01:42 +0000

Christie wrote a new blog post: Merry Merry Merry Merry Merry Here's a brand new Christmas song I made myself! With a little help from my new toy, the Boss RC-50. Fun Fun Fun Fun Fun.

Merry!

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Christie wrote a new blog post: Catcerto

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:57:01 +0000

Christie wrote a new blog post: Catcerto I have to take a break from this Christmas program to show off this clip I found today! Thanks to my friend David, who mentioned the famous Youtube "piano playing cat" to me, right after his daughter drew a picture of a cat playing the piano (which now lives on top of my piano!). As [...]

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Christie wrote a new blog post: 12 Days of Christmas, Day 2.

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:53:44 +0000

Christie wrote a new blog post: 12 Days of Christmas, Day 2. Ok, it's not Carol of the Bells, and it's not Wexford Carol... It's just something I've been playing with and wanted to record before I forgot the interesting chordy things I was doing at the beginning. I know the vocals aren't the greatest, and the piano needs a visit from the tuner. Not much has [...]

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Christie wrote a new blog post: 12 Days of Christmas, Day 1

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:23:56 +0000

Christie wrote a new blog post: 12 Days of Christmas, Day 1 I know, I know, the official twelve days don't start 'til later, but I'm calling this MY twelve days of Christmas, because I will post twelve different Christmas songs between now and... um... when the wise men get here. I guess. So that's the goal. Creative people need projects and goals. Even goofy ones help! [...]

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Christie wrote a new blog post: E.S.T

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:33:35 +0000

Christie wrote a new blog post: E.S.T I've been having such amazing visits with a baby grand in North Chattanooga lately... Such a different experience from playing a 100-year-old upright, and it brings out totally different music from me. Most people around here don't even associate me with a piano--Heck! I certainly don't talk about myself as a pianist. Never totally developed [...]

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Christie wrote a new blog post: Lovin' the Chattanooga Life

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:13:08 +0000

Christie wrote a new blog post: Lovin' the Chattanooga Life Well here's me skipping a month of blogging, all for starting a folk music school...building local connections stronger, deeper, and more intricately woven than before. It's been an amazing month since returning from Belgium. For one thing, I hit the ground running with the promotion of the Mountain Music Folk School fall schedule. I've been the [...]

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Christie wrote a new blog post: The Last Night at Gooik

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:15:10 +0000

Christie wrote a new blog post: The Last Night at Gooik There's some pretty incredible stuff going on with the folk music scene in Belgium. I was just teaching at a week-long festival in Gooik, a small village that gets completely overrun with folk musicians... All day long there are classes for all the different instruments: fiddle, bagpipe, accordion, guitar, hammered dulcimer (that's me!), percussion, hurdy [...]

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