At the Hurdy Café you will find an hour of interviews, music and camaraderie all dedicated to that magical instrument, the hurdy gurdy. I’m Ryan and I’ll be your host along this crazy adventure through the land of the wheel fiddle. So strap in and let’s see what’s cranking in the Hurdy Gurdy Community today.
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At the Hurdy Café you will find an hour of interviews, music and camaraderie all dedicated to that magical instrument, the hurdy gurdy. I’m Ryan and I’ll be your host along this crazy adventure through the land of the wheel fiddle. So strap in and let’s see what’s cranking in the Hurdy Gurdy Community today.
Pagans, Metal and the Hurdy Gurdy - Hurdy Gurdy Cafe Podcast Season 1 Episode 5
The Hurdy Gurdy Cafe
1 hour 10 minutes
5 years ago
Pagans, Metal and the Hurdy Gurdy - Hurdy Gurdy Cafe Podcast Season 1 Episode 5
This podcast was released at Sept. 17, 2020 at 7:00 am Eastern Time Zone, as the Moon is perfectly new. (For show notes and podcast audio, scroll down, down, down…)
Video - https://youtu.be/QPILT5wmgOg
Introducing Sam Riffle, moderator of the Hurdy Gurdy Community on Facebook. If you really want to make a good decision about buying and playing the Hurdy Gurdy, join this group first. (https://www.facebook.com/groups/2038441566425103/2154206864848572/)
Featured MusicMike Smith – Tea in the Morning – https://www.youtube.com/user/gurdymike/videosBube Dame König – Heideförsterlied – https://www.youtube.com/c/neuevolkslieder/videosZirp – La Toupie https://www.facebook.com/zirpmusic/
Sam’s background-Mittelalterrock (medieval rock) scene in Germany – bands like Subway to Sally, In Extremo, Schandmaul-Pagan metal bands (Arkona, Eluveitie) -Sam’s hurdy-gurdy teachers – Silke Reichmann de Salas (daugher of Frankfurt-based luthier Kurt Reichmann), Simon Wascher (Austria)-Renting a hurdy gurdy-Repetitive stress injuries (don’t play for 8 hours a day!)-Eluveitie forum, forum meetup, meeting Anna Murphy -Advice on buying a gurdy from Anna Murphy, Stephan Groth, Alexis Vacher-Helpful hurdy-gurdy players
-Visit to LSC in 2012 – Gotschy (Alexandra Betz), Neil Brook, Sebastian Hilsmann-Beginner instruments, how many melody strings, pressure on the fingers-Swapping out melody strings, experimenting
-Mike Smith – YouTube tune collection, good player, good gurdies, paintings
Hurdy Gurdy Community – origins, documentation, limitations-The hurdy gurdy & patience-Situation in the US-HCG website in the works – articles, FAQs, profiles/info from experts, make info public and visible-Spanish podcast?
Hurdy gurdy & metal-Eluveitie & Anna Murphy, Cellar Darling-Apocalypse Orchestra-Corvus Corax & medieval rock-Sangre de Muerdago & Antlers-Afsky – Danish black metal with hurdy gurdy track-Shredding on the gurdy, why a fully-loaded gurdy might make sense-Michalina’s tutorials for the latest Eluveitie tracks-Lack of dynamics in most metal bands using gurdy – lost in the mix-Build metal around a gurdy, don’t just add gurdy
Zirp, Liederlicher Unfug – Stephan Groth5-4-O Video (new track): https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=253636805535079
The Hurdy Gurdy Cafe
At the Hurdy Café you will find an hour of interviews, music and camaraderie all dedicated to that magical instrument, the hurdy gurdy. I’m Ryan and I’ll be your host along this crazy adventure through the land of the wheel fiddle. So strap in and let’s see what’s cranking in the Hurdy Gurdy Community today.
