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Listen: The Blues ProgramWillie David Jones playing fiddle - Old Town, Florida
Image Number
Photographer
Date
Rights
Collection
Series 1640, Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program, Willie David Jones, Fiddling, 1993-1994 ; Box 16, FF1
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Fiddling
Music--Performance
Fiddle
Music (History and characteristics)
Arts (Performing)--Florida--Dixie County--Old Town
Musical traditions, European
Musical traditions, Anglo-American
Musical traditions
Stringed instruments
Bowed stringed instruments
Violin
Violin music
Fiddle tunes
Old-time music
Folk music--United States
Fiddlers
Violinists
Instrumentalists
Folk musicians--Florida--Dixie County--Old Town
Musicians--Florida--Dixie County--Old Town
Entertainers--Florida--Dixie County--Old Town
Mentoring in the arts
Popular music
Personal Subjects
Physical Description
General Note
Traditional fiddler Willie David Jones of Old Town was born in Dixie County in 1923, just a few miles from where he lives today. He comes from a long line of fiddlers that includes his brothers, father, aunt, and great-uncle. Southern old-time fiddling is a blend of Anglo-Celtic dance music traditions and early popular music styles such as ragtime, country, and blues. It is distinguished by hard-driving rhythm, sliding notes, and ringing "drone" strings. Several of the tunes Jones plays, such as "Charleston No. 1," have been handed down in his family through several generations.
Jones's apprentice, Trenda Slaughter, is from nearby Trenton.
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