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Post by Ptarmigan on Nov 7, 2007 14:13:19 GMT
Hello Deleuran
Welcome to the Old Time Music Forum & congratulations on being the first member. 
We are all delighted that you are now a member and we look forward to your contributions to the discussions here.
Please tell us a little bit about yourself, your music & your Old Time Instruments.
Then, why not hop over to our Where are you? poll and click on your own area!
Cheers
'Ptarmigan'
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Post by deleuran on Nov 7, 2007 14:40:16 GMT
Hello Ptarmigan, and thanks for the warm welcome. I can tell about myself, that I'm making my living as a cartoonist/illustrator. You can see some of my work here: www.jesperdeleuran.dk/index.html Sorry, most of the text is in danish, but the pictures speak for themselves I guess. In my spare time my main interest is playing old time music with the Big Hungry Joe. You can hear 5 tunes on MySpace: www.myspace.com/hungryjoeMy main instrument is the guitar and I also sing. On the side I play mandolin, 5 string banjo, autoharp, and I own a fiddle, but I'm only a wannabe on that instrument. And lately I have fallen in love with the mountain dulcimer, and have ordered one from England. They are not easily obtainable in Denmark. I have been interested in american folkmusic since my early teens, in the beginning of the sixties, when the folk revival started. I heard Pete Seger, Joan Baez, New Lost City Ramblers, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, Chisco Houston and off course Bob Dylan. And loads of blues. In the seventies I began listening to bluegrass, and hooked up with a couple of other guys, and played some of that. I have not been a practicing musician for many years, but last year I met Tobias, the banjo player in Big Hungry Joe, who asked me to join. I have not played old time music before, eccept from the old songs I know from way back. But I can say that it's one of the best things ever happening to me. Aside from when my son was born. I can only welcome this initiative to make an old time forum on this side of the pond. |
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Post by Ptarmigan on Nov 9, 2007 11:42:50 GMT
Hey, some of those face drawings are so life like they're on the scary side! 
My Mum always wondered how I made a living playing music, so I wonder what your Mum says about you making a living from doodling!!!  ;D
But seriously those drawings are brilliant & as you know I really like those ones of Big Hungry Joe on MySpace.
I'm glad you are on board.
Cheers
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Post by deleuran on Nov 11, 2007 20:46:38 GMT
Thank you Dick.
My mother didn't mind. She made her living by doodling too, and my father was a painter, and my brother was a comicbook artist and illustrator, famous in Denmark. So you can say I come from a doodling family. ;D
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Post by Ptarmigan on Dec 2, 2007 18:34:14 GMT
There ye go Jesper, now your Karma is - 2
How do ye like them (June) Apples? ;D
Cheers
Dick
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Post by deleuran on Dec 2, 2007 21:58:43 GMT
Oh, man I feel better and better all the time  An apple a day should be good for you. I guess that applies for June Apples too (whatever that means?) ;D What have I done to deserve this? |
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;D
An apple a day should be good for you. I guess that applies for June Apples too (whatever that means?) ;D