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Welcome to Tiomp‡n Alley!
Take what you need, but do me a few favors. Tunes and songs written by me, and arrangements on the MP3's are copyright (c) by me. Contact me for recording rights, but play them and sing them if you like them (but for heaven's sake give me some creditâ I need all I can get).
Any printed stuff you may reproduce as long as you leave my name and contact information at the bottom. If you are going to publish them for profit please contact me for some just compensation.
What's on this site:
Diary
BOOKING
Bios, Photos, MP3's:
David James
Kim Hoffmann
Important Dates,
Personal
Appearances
Activist RŽsumŽ
Freedom Summer
08 page
In Print Here
Fiddle
Dulcimer
Tin Whistle
Bodhr‡n
Hand-Outs
Accompaniment
Irish Music and Song
Sources
Old Time Music Page
Writings & Academic
Papers
Your First Five
Irish Tunes
About First Five
Intro to reading
music (easy!)
Fiddle
Dulcimer
Tin Whistle
Links to other great
Web sites
The Lone Man's Path CD
On the Stranraer ferry. |
Who, What, Why, When, Where?
Welcome to the authorized website of David James, performer, songwriter and teacher on the hammered dulcimer, fiddle and many other instruments.
NEW! Kids Fiddle! - fiddle site for little kids and little-kids-at-heart. I only have two tunes on it now but it's gonna grow.
Diary: The ongoing story of this web site, observations of all kinds mostly on musical subjects, life, teaching and personal appearances.
Tiomp‡n is the Irish language word for hammered dulcimer. For me, using it implies respect for traditional style and the comradeship of the worldwide traditional music family.
What's here:
Everything underlined is a clickable link to another page.
BOOKING INFORMATION, biographies and photographs of David James, David James and Kim Hoffmann, songs I wrote, songs I sing, my own tune compositions, some of my favorite traditional tunes.
Workshops/ teaching handouts!
Through the years, I've developed some ideas and methods for teaching hammered dulcimer, fiddle, tin whistle, bodhr‡n, accompaniment, etc., into handouts. Watch this site for audio downloads for learning tunes and method.
First Five: (under construction) beginners tutorial covering every aspect I can think of to help you learn to read music and play your first five Irish tunes on the fiddle, tin whistle and hammered dulcimer.
Festival workshop hand-outs, start here.
Personal appearances, students, friends, mugging, weddings, wakes.
Recordings/ Availability
SOME IMPORTANT UPDATES:
November 20, 2008 updated the Personal Appearances page at last! Also some new entries in the Freedom Summer 08 resources page.
August 12, 2008 Here goes the new OLD TIME MUSIC PAGE with MP3s, resources, sheet music, links
and soon many other things.
9_7_05 Go HERE for the Mandy Gallagher page
5/7/05 New folder containing my (and hopefully others in the future) academic papers and writings that might be of interest to Irish musicians and dulcimer players
3/4/05 New update at last! New Personal Appearances. I've Macromedia Dreamweaver and just barely beginning to learn how to use it, so the whole thing might be sloppy-looking for a while, but I promise new things and faster uploads!
4/23/04, Big update, re-arranged things, new cover page, new tunes, personal appearances, etc.
11/3/03, New Personal Appearances, new Bodhr‡n hand-outs (two pages of beginning bodhr‡n riffs).
9/18/03, All my the handouts from the Clarion/Cook Forest 2003 Festival, new Personal Appearances
7/24/03, All my dulcimer hand-outs from the 7/03 Evart Fun Fest.
5/17/03, Up with a new Hosting Serviceâ Globatâ check them out. They've been very helpful.
December 30, 2002, Att. Dulcimer players: Slowed-down samples of Kitty's Rambles (jig) from The Lone Man's Path, click HERE.
September 24 2002, Just got back from Cork (Ireland) Dulcimer Fest. Photo Gallery
July 5, 2002, Announcing the release of my new CD: The Lone Man's Path. Here are transcriptions, MP3's, and album cover plus notes.
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