https://clutchmov.com/5998-2/ Online Magazine for the Mid-Ohio Valley Tue, 29 Aug 2017 18:17:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.16 https://clutchmov.com/5998-2/#comment-178 Fri, 18 Mar 2016 20:00:29 +0000 https://clutchmov.com/?p=5998#comment-178 Great article! Love this family!!
Well written!
I have met Adam and his family, but now I really want to visit the farm!!! – on a Sunday!!

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As an outsider looking in I have been privileged to view this transition of a musician to a farming fiddling violinist. I use that term to describe my friend, teacher, and performer because as a musician he can play any style any where, be it Old Time Mounain music, Bluegrass, country, classical, or a mixture of it all, he can and has done it better than most if not best, ( see his “Sweet Child on Mine”) .
I live on the Va side 50 miles from his “mini farm” and studio where he has given me and my two grand children (age 8 and 10) lessons for the last 9 years. He teaches the Suzukee method or what ever U need and want. I wanted to learn to Jam with local Old Time Mountain musicians. After struggling to figure out how to communicate with an engineer, he was successful in meeting my desire to participate on the “fiddle”.
He eagerly agreed to take on my daughters oldest as an experiment at age 5. He is still Adam’s student and friend and will defend Adam vigorously in any argument which we have frequently over how they are supposed to play something.
Younger siblings always want to do everything the older has/is doing, so Adam took that on too. Their weekly lessons have made pretty good musicians of them such that they intend to compete at the Galax fiddling convention this year. The playing there Is the epitome of competition with only the best placing or winning. Adam will have them ready to do their best and some day……
So what I have been trying to convey is that Adam has to be one of the vary best at working with children to help them learn and excel at playing the violin/fiddel and in the process learn some of life’s great lessons. In doing what he currently does, teach, perform, farm, and raise his family, he has found his nitch, at least for the time being. Congratulations to him and Lisa in this accomplishment.

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