Wednesdays – January through May 11:40 AM – 12:10 PM:
FiddleDanceMusic Workshop Series
For Enthusiastic Students of Violin, Viola, and Cello ages 6 and up!
16 drop-in workshops focusing on Rhythm & Gesture, Salon Sessions, Listening & Playing, and Theory & Physics. Attendance can be on a one-time drop-in basis, or students can buy packages for multiple drop-in dates or the whole semester.
4 monthly Salon Sessions of “fiddledancemusic” with Effaeye:
2/5, 3/5, 4/2, and 4/30:
A relaxed review of repertoire and supportive group playing, with Effaeye coaching and advising, followed by a guided mini “open mic” time and free-flowing space for students to play music for/with each other.
4 monthly Listening & Playing “fiddledancemusic” Workshops:
1/22 – “Learn Melodies by Ear”
2/19 – “Accompany Your Accompanist”
4/23 – “Improvising in a Group”
5/14 – “The Fiddle as a Voice: Its Solo Singing and Harmonic Accompaniment”
4 monthly Rhythm & Gesture “fiddledancemusic” Workshops:
1/29 – “Dancing Feet and Fiddle Bowing”
2/12 – “Bowing Percussive and Rhythmic Contours in Fiddle Dance Music”
3/12 – “Jig Bowing and Cross Bowing”
4/16 – “Breathing Life Into Hornpipes and Airs”
4 monthly Theory & Physics “fiddledancemusic” Workshops:
2/26 – “Finding Chords and Structure”
3/19 – “Tone”
4/9 – “Improvising”
5/7 – “How Does the Violin Work?”
When:
Wednesdays 11:40a to 12:10p
Workshop series dates:
1/22-3/19, 4/2-5/14
Where:
Muso (2041 Winnebago St., Madison) musomadison.com
Instructor:
Effaeye Aawenyn
How to Enroll:
Contact your instructor or Effaeye to ask! Enrollment is by instructor invitation.
Once you’re invited to enroll, that means you’re invited to any/all of the workshops during the semester.
Enrollment can begin at any time during the semester. See pricing details for more information.
An invoicing process and prepayment directly to Effaeye is required to complete a student’s enrollment.
Additional Coaching:
If you would like an $18 mini coaching session (individually scheduled private lesson) from 11:30 to 11:40 a.m., contact Effaeye for details and to schedule.
Anyone can schedule a coaching session, for any level of instruction, without instructor invitation.
Contact Effaeye:
Pricing options for workshops:
Attend weekly for the semester:
- Get the best price when you prepay for the semester (prorated if you enroll later).
- $288 per semester for all 16 workshops
- ($18/workshop)
10 drop-in credits:
- Purchase 10 credits as a way to spontaneously drop in to whichever workshop dates work for you. If you use up all 10 credits, you can buy more. Credits expire when the semester ends.
- $200 per 10-credit package
- ($20/workshop)
5 drop-in credits:
- Purchase 5 credits as a way to spontaneously drop in to whichever workshop dates work for you. If you use up all the credits, you can buy more. Credits expire when the semester ends.
- $110 per 5-credit package
- ($22/workshop)
One drop-in credit:
- Purchase one credit as a way to spontaneously drop in to whichever workshop date works for you. Credit expires when the semester ends.
- ($26/workshop)
In case of weather or contagiousness, rather than meeting in person, Effaeye will teach a Zoom lecture-demo/Q&A and/or perform particular tunes for the group via Zoom that students request.
About Effaeye:
Effaeye Aawenyn has 25 years of professional experience teaching violin and fiddle. She studied classical violin with Dr. Joseph Conte (concertmaster of the Rhode Island Philharmonic) in the 1980s, and taught at Maine Fiddle Camp in the early 2000s. In addition to her freelance teaching and performing in New England and Madison, she has worked as an instructor at UW’s Odyssey Junior Music Program, Monroe Street Arts Center, Music con Brio, and the UW Summer Music Clinic.
A longtime dance teacher and choreographer, she’s earned two professional training certificates from the Bates Dance Festival and collaborated on small-scale performances with live musicians including Moira Smiley and Michael Zerang. Her original curriculum of creative movement and fiddle music has been presented at libraries, schools, and children’s museums since 2003.
Reviews of her work as a fiddler and singer, in a country duet with newgrass (Breakfast Special and Skyline) songwriter Jim Tolles, describe “powerful performance … graced with superior musicianship” (Will Gottlieb, Coastal Journal). Reviewer William Cutlip notes she “plays a fine, rhythmically charged fiddle informed by time spent with Don Roy and other Maine fiddle monsters.”
Master fiddler Greg Boardman describes her composing and playing as “inviting, warm, energized and straight ahead, with a bit of mischief thrown in.”
Effaeye’s individualized, patient and creative teaching style brings out every student’s potential for playing with musicality and artistry.
She teaches workshops, group classes, coaching sessions, and individual lessons in Madison and online.
