Fiddle and Drum with Attitude!
Get out your dancing shoes! The Lowlander Highlanders add a spirited touch to any festival, picnic, wedding, celebration or party with music from the northern Appalachians. Specializing in Celtic and Old Time Americana, Beverley Conrad and Luke Glick perform on fiddle and drums and then some!
In a festival or school setting Bev and Luke demonstrate old time rhythms on handmade, homemade log drums, bodrhans, spoons and bones and fiddles of various designs. Ever play a cornstalk fiddle? How about a genuine cigar box fiddle? Tin fiddle? It's all there for young folks and older folks to dance to and try a hand at. To get you into the swing of things Bev will teach you a bit about flat foot clogging, same as the oldtimers of central Pennsylvania do when the music just hits a beat that must be danced to.
Luke gives a lesson on how to play the spoons Trying out a cigar box fiddle
Beverley Conrad has been playing the fiddle since she was six years old, has hundreds of old tunes at her fingertips and has performed at many festivals and events throughout central Pennsylvania. Luke Glick is a woodworker among other things and it is said that he can hammer a nail faster than just about anyone. That ability was transferred to drumming one day when someone gave him a bodrhan. He also plays jawharp, bones and the spoons and teaches the technique of these as well.
The Lowlander Highlanders have performed at The Joseph Priestly House (PA Museum Commission), The Danville Ironfest, New Berlin Heritage Days, Lykens Valley Fall Festival, Warrior Run Heritage Days, Penns Colony, Clover Irish Weekend, Pennsylvania Maple Festival, Punxsutawney Groundhog Day, Eckley Miners Village (PA Museum), Kutztown Folk Festival, Mifflinburg Buggy Days as strolling musicians, stage performers and hosting our Making Music Tent.
For information on hiring The Lowlander Highlanders for a special event please contact Beverley Conrad by e-mail or snail mail at 42 Music Row Lane, Selinsgrove, PA 17870. Phone number is 570-374-2647.
The tunes on this cd are played using fiddle and drum, or fiddle and bones. Beverley Conrad, fiddler and Luke Glick Drums and Bones
The tunes included are: Lost Indian; Rosin the Beau; Soldier's Joy and Liberty; Joys of Quebec; Jug of Jigs which includes Merrily Kiss the Quaker, Larry O'Graf and Beverley's Jig; Hills of Glenorchy; Miss Wedderburn's Reel; Loch Lomond and Flowers of Edinburgh; Big John Macneil; Bill Malley's Schottish; Bonaparte's Retreat; Durangue's Hornpipe and Sailor's Hornpipe; Farewell to Whiskey and Whiskey Before Breakfast; St. Anne's Reel and Opera Reel; Star of County Down
A special thanks to James Walter of Mifflinburg, PA for taking these photos of us at Heritage Days 2004 and for allowing us to use them. Thanks, Jim!
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