Farm and Fiddle

This podcast features an uncut version of a fiddle workshop at the Big Muddy Folk Festival given by Mike Fraser, Ozark fiddler and performer and Howard Marshall, author of three books on Missouri fiddling and Senior Senior Champion of the 2021 Weiser Fiddle Contest. The two fiddlers talk about their careers, regional differences in fiddle styles, MIssouri history and landscape and fiddles around the world.

Show Notes

Fiddle player and performer Mike Fraser and Howard Marshall, champion fiddler and author of three books on Missouri fiddling, gave this workshop as part of the Big Muddy Folk Festival in Boonville, Missouri, on May 15, 2022. Their teaching style is conversational and they cover a wide range of topics, from the differences in fiddle styles to variations in tuning to where fiddle tunes come from. To illustrate their points, they play their fiddles, ably backed up by Kathy Gordon, Heinrich Leonhard and Tenley Hansen. 

What is Farm and Fiddle?

Farm and Fiddle is the world's oldest radio program covering sustainable agriculture and local food systems. We air every Wednesday evening from 7 to 8 p.m. central time, from KOPN 89.5 fm, Columbia, Missouri. We speak to the best experts in regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, animal husbandry, and cover topics like how to resist factory farms in the neighborhood and what to do if your crop is knocked out by too much or too little rain, or by a neighbor's sloppy poison application.