That crazy girl.

Jane Rothfield – fiddler, banjo player, tunesmith, teacher and composer – has been playing since childhood. Although her beginnings were of the classical kind, she quickly slipped her mooring and headed off for other shores, along the way mastering an inspiring repertoire of American and Celtic traditional tunes, with a strong smattering of old-time and Scottish-rooted pieces as the centerpiece. Despite decades of collecting the tunes she loves, she has managed to reserve space on her internal hard-drive for lots of original compositions in the tradition of the roots music she is addicted to.

May
18

Up and running… er, walking quickly

10:07 am

Well. My new website is finally up and running! I will be adding stuff into the sections that are currently marked “info to come” so please don’t give up on me if you stumble onto something that’s not finished yet; cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die it will be done soon! My web designer is also a musician so she’s currently stretched a bit thin (although she claims that she’s put on weight). More later! - Jane

SEPTEMBER 28 2008 Hey everyone-things have been busy in “Janeland”-spent the last year recording and putting out my new CD called iFiddle  theyBanjo which features me playing fiddle with-you guessed it! fabulous banjo players. 5 actually-This project started out in Summer of 07 during the Clifftop Appalachian String Band Festival when it hit me that the music I was making with all of the wonderful banjo players that I get to play with was interesting and fun to listen to!  So I traveled to Ohio, Virginia and Washington DC to capture tunes with Hilarie Burhans, Cathy Fink, Reed Martin, Jimmy McCown and Dan Rublee. This was a real collaboration from the tune selections and arrangements and I am so delighted with the results. Actually had too many tracks to include on the CD so maybe I’ll have to do a iFiddle Part 2 sometime.  It is on my own iFiddle label and is available from me (soon on CD baby and other online services).  Oh-for fun I added a “bonus” track from a recording I did while touring and recording with our trio Hadden Rothfield and Carr-it is a version of Bury Me Beneath the Weeping Willow. The harmonies and percussion are by musicians in a reggae group that we saw perform in Edinburgh Scotland, while we were recording our record When These Shoes Were New (More on the Scotland Days!). It was a blast to record and I recommend that you play it loud! Have fun!

November 21  Have had a great Fall with lots of playing-especially working on fabulous material with the new band Red Hen with Dave, LInda and Allan.  I am especially delighted because we are reviving alot of original material that Allan and I have put together over the years but didn’t have the “band” vehicle for performing so watch out!  Also the harmonies are simply glorious if I may say so!  We have some gigs coming up opening for Laurie Lewis in December, playing at Banjo Jim’s on January 3rd in NYC and of course at the Dance Flurry.  We start recording our new cd with Joe “Bass” DeJarnette in January so stay tuned for that!  You can also catch us at Old Songs Festival in Altamont NY June 26-28th (www.oldsongs.org) and our pal Jimmy McCown will also be there so there will be lots of HOT music and jamming going on all weekend long! Ta ta for now!xxoo

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