Fiddle Kids Program
FIDDLE KIDS CORNER
District 5 continues to
support our Fiddle Kids Music Scholarship Program. Cameron, Age 11 and Patricia, age 7 was granted a $250.00 scholarship to
attend the recent American River Music Camp in Coloma.
Cameron's mother Cathie accompanied him at her own expense and had nothing but
praise and appreciation for the opportunity we granted her son. She said Eric
will always be Cameron’s fiddle teacher but that she and Cameron will also attend the
American River Music Camp at every opportunity. She said that he participated
every evening in the camp’s band scramble and even formed a string band with a
couple of other kid campers and entertained the audience in the evenings after
dinner.
Cameron regularly performs
on our stage and always “wows” our fiddle friends with his musical talent. He
has already gone to the grand daddy of fiddledom at the Weiser,
Patricia Garrett has been
fiddling for only three months but you’d never know it the way she plays with
smooth tone, skill and confidence. Both these fiddle kids represent a bright
future for our treasured fiddle music and with excellent music teachers like
Eric our club can be a part of that enjoyable future.