Ukiah Ranch Waltz
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Rita.
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April 26, 2022 at 10:46 am #56718
Rita
ParticipantThis is a waltz I composed. It also has a second violin part. My band, The Oyster Crackers, play it with our cello playing harmony and 2 guitars.
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April 26, 2022 at 11:21 am #56719
Sally Loder
ParticipantWhat a lovely tune.
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April 27, 2022 at 1:40 am #56729
Marg Sherringham
ParticipantWow, that is such a lovely tune Rita and played beautifully, nice vibrato. You seem right at home on the fiddle, have you been playing a long time?
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April 27, 2022 at 6:35 am #56736
Rita
ParticipantI’ve been playing for about 6 years. Playing in our band has given me a lot of confidence. I really like posting here, it’s another way to practice with an “audience”. Thank you!
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April 29, 2022 at 12:58 am #56798
Marg Sherringham
ParticipantRita,I just noticed that you wrote this tune, and harmonies too! It would be lovely to see a video of the Oyster Catchers playing it. I have a deep interest in ensemble music, have written some harmonies for a composer of folk tunes, these were published in her book. Also arranged one of them as a classical guitar solo, but I would love to write an original tune as you’ve done, that takes real creativity, and you certainly have that. 🙂
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April 29, 2022 at 5:55 am #56801
Rita
ParticipantGood morning Marge, I am out of town, but can certainly send you a recording of the song by the Oyster Crackers. We have a CD and it is all original songs written by myself and Bette Lu Krause (one of the guitarists in our band). We also did a live stream concert during COVID at the Columbia Theatre in Longview, WA. It is on YouTube, and we did do Ukiah Ranch Waltz there.
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April 30, 2022 at 4:30 pm #56863
Jan Cokely
ParticipantThis is a lovely tune, Rita. I can see Jay Ungar playing it!
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May 1, 2022 at 1:38 am #56865
Marg Sherringham
ParticipantHi Rita,
I’m away for a few days too, for my Grandaughter’s birthday. I’ve managed to watch a little of your concert on YouTube so far and looking forward to watching more. Thanks for sending info about it. -
May 1, 2022 at 10:07 pm #56875
kate.kakadu
ParticipantSo clever! I’ll have to check out your band (love the name!) . Great that your composing music too – thanks for sharing!
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May 6, 2022 at 5:59 am #57030
Marg Sherringham
ParticipantRita, I finished watching your band’s concert video. So polished, you must all have worked very hard to put that together. Beautiful vocal harmonies, what a great thing to be able to sing so well. I think that would be very helpful for audiation as a fiddle player.
I hope the Oyster Crackers will soon be able to do live gigs again, I’m not sure of the covid situation in your part of the world. Here, in Australia festivals and concerts have recently started again, I play fiddle and mandolin in a couple of amateur bands, a classical guitar duo and run a community group, we’re all so happy to be able to play together again.-
May 6, 2022 at 6:53 am #57031
Rita
ParticipantThank you for watching our concert, Marg. We have started live concerts here in Long Beach, Wa. We have 2 performances coming up in June. I just finished directing and acting in our local communist theater musical which ran 3 weekends. We had to shut down 2 years ago, 3 days before we were to open. So nice to be back to live entertainment in our little community!
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May 8, 2022 at 9:36 am #57071
Deb Hilton
ParticipantGorgeous!
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May 8, 2022 at 3:17 pm #57072
Rita
ParticipantThank you. I enjoy writing music. Not too good at adding lyrics, so I stick to tunes, mostly waltzes, but have done a few others along with some songs with lyrics. Retirement is great!
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May 9, 2022 at 6:09 pm #57098
Deb Hilton
ParticipantThat’s awesome Rita, WTG!
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August 23, 2022 at 11:08 am #59437
Fixkids
ParticipantVery nice. You are very talented. Thanks for sharing.
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August 23, 2022 at 11:12 am #59438
Rita
ParticipantThank you. I had shoulder surgery 4 weeks ago, so my fiddling has been very limited. Slow and steady!
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August 23, 2022 at 11:15 am #59439
Fixkids
ParticipantThat is a complicated surgery. Wishing you a complete recovery.
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October 18, 2022 at 4:19 am #60858
Diane Thompson
ParticipantCongratulations on writing such a wonderful tune. I heard it on Laura Staples waltz kit and fell in love with it. No wonder it sounds so good when you play it!!
Thanks for sharing it with us. -
October 18, 2022 at 9:22 am #60861
Rita
ParticipantThank you. Glad you like it.
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