Dwight Lamb´s Danish Tunes, 2nd edition with 5 bonus tunes added
Composer: Dwight Lamb
Instrument: Any instrument
Level: Intermediate
Published: 2020
Price: €20.00
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CD recordings also available from folkshop.dk:
Dwight Lamb, Jensen & Bugge - Live in Denmark 2010
Dwight Lamb, Jensen & Bugge - Live in Denmark 2013
Dwight Lamb´s Danish Tunes, 2nd edition with 5 bonus tunes added
Chris Jerup left Denmark in 1893 with his fiddle, his accordion, and a head full of dance tunes from his home region of Vendsyssel in northern Jutland. His father, Kræn Jerup, had been a fiddler of great reputation in Vendsyssel: he’d thatched roofs by day and fiddled at night, and passed his tunes to his son.
Chris set out for Monona County, Iowa to meet his sponsor for US citizenship, Fred Knutson. Fred got Chris a job as a hired farm hand for Charlie Bisbee, who farmed near the little town of Turin, Iowa. Chris played dances for the Danish immigrants in the Loess Hills around Moorhead, Iowa for many years.
When Chris sold his farm in 1946, he moved in with his daughter Mary Lamb and her husband Clarence. The Lamb home was filled with music at night, as Clarence fiddled and Mary played the pump organ. Their twelve year old son, Dwight, started to learn Danish dance tunes on the accordion from his grandfather, Chris, that year. While most of these tunes were quietly forgotten back home in Denmark, Dwight carried them into the 21st century just as he had learned them from his grandfather Jerup.
Since 2008 Mette Kathrine Jensen Staerk and Kristian Bugge have undertaken to learn all these tunes from Dwight and bring them back to the people of Denmark. Dwight is delighted to share his music with others and hopes that the music of his grandfather and great grandfather will be enjoyed by future generations on both sides of the Atlantic.
With the publication of this tune book, Dwight, Mette and Kristian encourage other musicians to play these tunes for friends, relatives, dancers and keep the happiness going.
Bill Peterson, Canton, SD - fiddler, friend and apprentice of Dwight
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Instrumentation +
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Accordion, Fiddle, Piano, Guitar etc. any instrument
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Watch+
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Dwight Lamb, Jensen & Bugge live 2019
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About the composer +
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Chris Jerup left Denmark in 1893 with his fiddle, his accordion, and a head full of dance tunes from his home region of Vendsyssel in northern Jutland. His father, Kræn Jerup, had been a fiddler of great reputation in Vendsyssel: he’d thatched roofs by day and fiddled at night, and passed his tunes to his son.
Chris set out for Monona County, Iowa to meet his sponsor for US citizenship, Fred Knutson. Fred got Chris a job as a hired farm hand for Charlie Bisbee, who farmed near the little town of Turin, Iowa. Chris played dances for the Danish immigrants in the Loess Hills around Moorhead, Iowa for many years.
When Chris sold his farm in 1946, he moved in with his daughter Mary Lamb and her husband Clarence. The Lamb home was filled with music at night, as Clarence fiddled and Mary played the pump organ. Their twelve year old son, Dwight, started to learn Danish dance tunes on the accordion from his grandfather, Chris, that year. While most of these tunes were quietly forgotten back home in Denmark, Dwight carried them into the 21st century just as he had learned them from his grandfather Jerup.
Since 2008 Mette Kathrine Jensen Staerk and Kristian Bugge have undertaken to learn all these tunes from Dwight and bring them back to the people of Denmark. Dwight is delighted to share his music with others and hopes that the music of his grandfather and great grandfather will be enjoyed by future generations on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Credits +
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Carmen & Dwight Lamb, Anni Lehmann, Vagn Dahl Hansen, Alan Klitgaard, Poul Lendal, Inge Beck, Amber Gaddy, David Cavins, Nate Kemperman, Bill Peterson, Charlie Walden, Jamie Fox, Jim Heding, Ard Jongsma, Mette Bebe Juel, Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, Jacob Crawfurd/TEMPI, Ken Duda, Lars Salomonsen, Danmarks Rigsspillemænd, National Endowment for the Arts.
Saugmann Bjerregaards Fond: støtte til udgivelsen/support for the project
Anders Chr. N. Christensen: hjælp med noter og referencer til mange af melodierne/help with notes and references to a lot of the tunes
Rod Sinclair: hjælp med oversættelse til engelsk/help with translations
Ronni Kot Wenzell: front cover & photo editing
Johan Svitzer: nodesætter/engraving
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