Fiddleheads

Notes for March 25- April 2

Rehearsal Times 

• We only have two rehearsals left until the Summit! The tunes are coming along, but we will need to extend the rehearsal time for these last two practices to 8:30p.m. to make sure we are preapared
• Please note -there will be a rehearsal Easter Monday from 7p.m. to 8:30P.M. (There is no regular Fiddleheads rehearsal that night, so please arrive at 7p.m)

Practice Notes

• POLISH AND MEMORIZE ALL SUMMY ARRANGEMENTS-  ESPICIALLY THE BOWINGS AND DYNAMICS!
• MAKE SURE YOU KNOW BEV'S DUCK DANCE- ESPICALLY THE C SECTION- THIS WAS WEAK LAST TIME WE PLAYED IT. 
• MAKE SURE YOU KNOW ALL THE TUNES ON OUR YUKON SET LIST BELOW (AND REVIEW THE DRAFT CHOREOGRAPHY VIDEOS SENT ON WHATS APP) 
• Writing everything in capitcals becuase it is important :)

Yukon Fiddlers- Set List

• Yukon Theme Song /Pine Tune
• Bev's Duck Dance/Saturday Night Hoedown
• Gaptooth
• What's Going On

Have a great week!

Practice Expectations

• 20 mins/day 5 days a week
• You are part of a team, when you don't practice it effects what the whole group can accomplish.
• We have limited rehearsals until the Summit. We have four full arrangments to memeorize, plus 3-4 new performance peices for our own set. This will not be easier than last year becuase we have less time. Please stay on top of your paractice routine.

Sections

Glen Kabul ( Fiddlium)

• Otters A: Juniper,  Cloe, Yeasabeau, Poppy ,
• Otters B- Taryn,  Yulia, Madison, Maya, Grace Jullia 
• Salmon: Noe, Luka, Owen,  
• Orcas:Jack,  Adele, Philly , Ella 

Shine You No More

• Salmon: Jack, Owen, Phily, Poppy , Ella
• Otter:Noe, Juniper, Noe, Yseabeau, Chloe,  Maya, Julia,Grace,  Madison, Yulia 
• Orca: Adele, Taryn, Luka 

The Terror

• Violin 1: Noe, Lukka, Yulia, Chloe, Poppy, Grace, Madison, Jula
• Violin 2: Juniper, Owen, Philly, Ella, Maya
• Violin 3:  Jack, Adele, Taryn. Yseabeau

Cape Scott

• Salmon: Juniper, Taryn,  Cloe, Yeasabeau, Poppy , Madison, Maya, Grace 
• Otters: Noe, Luka, Owen,  Yulia, Julia
• Orcas:Jack,  Adele, Juniper, Philly , Ella 

What Gong On (Part of the Fiddleheads Set)

• All fiddlers excepts Juniors (Chloe, Poppy)
• Learning Video Below

Old Notes

Week Three (Jan. 22-29)

Cape Scott (Fiddelium)

• Memorize Sections 1-6
• Polish full tune

Shine You No More (NSCE)

• Learn full piece with music
• Learn a minium of two sections per practice
• Practice with audio recordings (use headphones)

Salmon: Jack, Owen, Phily, Poppy , Ella

Otter:Noe, Juniper, Noe, Yseabeau, Chloe,  Maya, Julia,Grace,  Madison, Yulia 

Orca: Adele, Taryn, Luka 

What Gong On (Part of the Fiddleheads Set)

• All fiddlers excepts Juniors (Chloe, Poppy)
• Learning Video Below

Week Two(Jan. 16-22)

Cape Scott (Fiddelium)

• Learn the full tune with the sheet music
• Memorize Sections 1-3

Salmon: Juniper, Taryn,  Cloe, Yeasabeau, Poppy , Madison, Maya, Grace 

Otters: Noe, Luka, Owen,  Yulia, Julia

Orcas:Jack,  Adele, Juniper, Philly , Ella 

The Terror

• Good work with this!
• Finalize Memorization
• Focus on Dynamics

About Cape Scott:

Cape Scott is a remote park at the most northern point of Vancouver Island. It’s a magical place that brings together the delicate ecosystems in the rain forest and the dramatic scenery of the wildest west coast ocean landscape. It’s also the former site of a settlement populated by Danish farmers in the late 1800s. It is totally amazing that a farming community could survive the harsh winter storms of this area, and after the population peaked at 1000 people around 1910, the community abandoned the Cape. 

Trish and Geoff  have hiked in Cape Scott several times, and this tune arrangement is our attempt to capture the contrasts of the area …. Fog (harmonics), countless eagles soaring above giant Douglas Fir (high descant lines), and crashing waves (chopping section). 

Week One(Jan. 8-16):The Terror- composed by the Fiddle Cats from Yellowknife!

• Read the tune history below
• Watch the video about the discovery of the Terror   http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/763510339503 
• Listen to the sample audio of the arrangement
• Learn the full arrangment for next week's rehearsal. (This will need to be memorized by the end of Week 2) 
• Learning videos will be comming soon
• The rest of the Summit Music will be added as it becomes available.

Violin 1: Noe, Lukka, Yulia, Chloe, Poppy, Grace, Madison, Jula

Violin 2: Juniper, Owen, Philly, Ella, Maya

Violin 3:  Jack, Adele, Taryn. Yseabeau

The Terror- Tune History 

Over one hundred and seventy years ago, Sir John Franklin and his crew of 129 went missing from The HMS Erebus and Terror  while searching for a Northwest Passage. Inuit living along the path of their travels were the last people to see them alive.

Between 1850 and 1875 Lady Franklin sponsored seven expeditions to find her husband or his records. During one of these voyages, in 1859, Francis McClintock found evidence in a cairn that Sir John had died twelve years previously, in 1847. Prior accounts had suggested that, in the end, the expedition had turned to cannibalism to survive, but Lady Franklin refused to believe these stories

The search for the Franklin Expedition helped map the Canadian Arctic. Eventually, the Northwest Passage was found and charted. With the discovery of the crew’s note at the Victory Point cairn, a chapter of the Franklin Expedition closed. But more questions remained.

During the Hall Expedition,  Inukpujijuk (In-nook-poo-zhe-jook) talked about visiting the ship as a child pointed out the location of the wreck on an Admiralty chart Hall used, and even drew his own map of the wreck location.

In 2014, the wreck of HMS Erebus was found in the region previously identified by Inukpujijuq and based on a tip from  Gjoa Haven resident Sammy Kogvik, who remembered seeing a large stick of wood sticking up through the  ice while putting out fish nets. 

The piece was written by the Fiddle Cats, the Yellowknife youth fiddle group coming to the Pan Northern Youth Fiddle Summit in August. Love this piece!