Search - Pa's Fiddle Band, Riders in the Sky, Deborah Packard :: The Pa's Fiddle Primer

The companion anthology collection to the PBS concert DVD & CD Pa's Fiddle: The Music of America.


Little House on the Prairie, the autobiographical book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder,
holds in its pages a comprehensive review of 19th-century American folk music via the
very real character of Charles 'Pa' Ingalls (1836-1902), a highly acclaimed fiddler
of the time and Laura's own non-fictional father. For the first time, in January 2012,
a concert based on this music was performed before a live audience at the Loveless
Barn just outside of Nashville, TN for broadcast by the PBS television network.
The Pa's Fiddle Primer draws from some of the songs inspired by this concert.


An effort produced by esteemed musicologist Dale Cockrell (President of Pa's
Fiddle Recordings), THE PA'S FIDDLE PRIMER features performances from some
of the finest of today's acoustic musicians, enlisting the talents of award-winning
musicians Matt Flinner (mandolin), Bryan Sutton (guitar), Byron House (acoustic
bass), Butch Baldassari (mandolin), Mike Bubb (acoustic bass), Bob Carlin (banjo),
Pat Enright (guitar), Matt Combs (fiddle), Dennis Crouch (upright bass), and Shad
Cobb (banjo) along with featured bands Riders in the Sky, Deborah Packard/
John Mock, Judith Edelman/Blair String Quartet, The Peggy Duncan Singers, and
Mac Wiseman. Standout tracks include 'Irish Washerwoman' and 'Green Grows the Laurel'