8-time New Mexico Music Award winner



In old time jam sessions fiddlers are happy to stay in a single key and a single tuning for up to an hour. At some point a key change will be suggested, and everyone will retune. If an outsider sees fit to criticise this practice, fiddlers will habitually blame it on banjo players, who apparently find it harder to retune. Banjo players of course blame the fiddlers. Bluegrass players, who pride themselves on their ability to play in any key, of course refuse to retune at all, and sneer at the lot of them.
 --Chris Haigh


we play for ourselves

we both sing at times, we sound rough but it’s not a sin.

not a sin to use our voices, we sing out into the thin air.

it used to be happy hour time with margaritas and gin tonics
but we stopped that and sing straight.

the jazz sounds better,
so does June Apple and Kitchen Girl.

we play for ourselves.

© 2019 Steffie Grow


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