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String Fever Radio Jam 2011 Hour 1
(03/03/11) Grab the sheet music from the String Fever website and play along. Songs this hour include Libert Two-Step, Black Velvet Waltz, Wabash Cannonball, Soldier's Joy, Orphan Girl, Cock of the North, Devil's Dream, Arkansas Traveler and Take Me Back To Tulsa.

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String Fever Radio Jam 2011 Hour 2
(03/03/11) Grab the sheet music from the String Fever website and play along. Songs this hour include Road to Boston, Will The Circle Be Unbroken, The Westfalia Waltz, Angelina Baker, Old Joe Clark, Dark Hollow, St. Anne's Reel and Goodnight Irene.

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Music for a Winter Carnival night
(02/14/11) Friday night was a Winter Carnival Rotary Show in Saranac Lake. One of the performers this year was Adirondack singer-songwriter Roy Hurd. Here he is performing his song Adirondack Woman at the Harrietstown Town Hall.
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Bonus track: Castle of Ice and Light
(02/14/11) This song, co-written by Howie Campbell and Sarah Curtis, has a nice medieval touch and is the theme song of this year's Saranac Lake Winter Carnival. The players are: Howie Campbell-vocals, guitar and chimes; Sarah Curtis-vocals, ukelele; Susan Grimm-flute; Martha Mozdzier-cello; Russell Feher-bohdran, tambourine. Lindsay Anderson provides the artwork.
Copyright 2011 Howard Campbell ASCAP. Used with permission.
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Singer-songwriter Mark Elliot on String Fever (Hour 1)
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(09/23/10) Nashville-based singer-songwriter Mark Elliot gave a brilliant performance on String Fever with Barb Heller. This is the first hour of the program. The North Country's own Roy Hurd, an old friend of Mark's, joined in the lively conversation between songs.
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Singer-songwriter Mark Elliot on String Fever (Hour 2)
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Mark Elliot
(09/23/10) Nashville-based singer-songwriter Mark Elliot gave a brilliant performance on String Fever with Barb Heller. This is the second hour of the program. The North Country's own Roy Hurd, an old friend of Mark's, joined in the lively conversation between songs.
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Going Home performed by Dead Men's Hollow
(08/29/10) Going Home was written by Pat Duniho, a North Country native who grew up alongside the Au Sable River in view of Whiteface mountain. He now lives in Plattsburgh, NY, where he's raising a daughter, teaching high school art, making his own instruments (including a fiddle and a mandolin,) painting, and writing songs. His daughter-in-law plays fiddle for DC-based Americana bad Dead Men's Hollow. The song will appear on their new CD, Angels' Share, due to be released September 21.
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String Fever "Play Along with the Radio" Jam (Hour 1)
(01/07/10) This was a special "Play Along With the Radio" edition of the program, featuring a live jam band in the studio. We provide the downloadable accompaniment and the sheet music, you can play along at home. This first hour includes the following tunes: Arkansas Traveler, Cock of the North, Fisher's Hornpipe, Flop Eared Mule, Garry Owen/Haste To The Wedding, I'll Fly Away, Irish Washerwoman, Keep On The Sunny Side, and Off She Goes.

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String Fever "Play Along with the Radio" Jam (Hour 2)
(01/07/10) This was a special "Play Along With the Radio" edition of the program, featuring a live jam band in the studio. We provide the downloadable accompaniment and the sheet music, you can play along at home. This second hour includes the following tunes: Old Joe Clark, Smash The Windows, Star of the County Down, Devil's Dream, Soldier's Joy, and Wabash Cannonball.

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String Fever "play along with the radio" Radio Jam
Members of the <em>String Fever</em> Jam Band in the NCPR studio.
Members of the <em>String Fever</em> Jam Band in the NCPR studio.
(02/19/09) String Fever host Barb Heller welcomes a whole slew of traditional musicians into the studio to perform standards and favorites. To encourage the radio audience to play along, all the sheet music was posted online. You can download this audio and play along yourself. Recordings of your home session may be posted on the String Fever page.
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