Fiddle and piano, plain and simple, tunes that were played way back then in family parlors and are still loved and played today.

23 MP3 Songs
FOLK: Traditional Folk, COUNTRY: Bluegrass



Details:
"On Sundays we'd go out to Grandpa's house for dinner. After the meal which had been cooked on a woodstove and prepared with water from a hand pump at the sink, we'd all go out into the parlor. A big old upright piano dominated the room. All the chairs faced it. Grandpa's fiddle lay on top. Someone would sit down at the piano and start to play. Grandpa would pick up his fiddle. Feet tapping, hands clapping we'd listen and sometimes dance to the tunes they played. He always played Put Your Little Foot. I guess because we were kids and had little feet. There was no TV. Grandpa had only just got electricity."

Beverley Conrad and Greg Burgess keep this family tradition alive with their fiddle and piano music in Tune From the Family Parlor. The husband and wife team have performed as a duo since their marriage in 1980. They appear throughout central Pennsylvania together and separately. Greg performs as a solo piano player of blues, ballads and boogies. Beverley is most often seen as The Strolling Fiddler at many regional events. Beverley is from way upstate New York originally. Her fiddle style is from the northern Appalachian Mountains. Greg is from the Susquehanna River Valley region of Pennsylvania. They met at Grand Central Station in New York City, have two children, Grandpa's fiddle and a big old upright piano in the parlor.