It’s kind of a long story, but I ended up staying another week with Polo and Nadine after the Old-Time Weekend in Bécours. Their band, Ida Red, invited me to record about 6 tunes with them on their new CD. Of course, I was honored. All three of them are grand musicians and it was the perfect chance for me to sit down and really learn some of Polo’s crazy, very-old-sounding fiddle tunes.
(For those of you Asheville, Old-Time Music folks out there, Ida Red also included their dear friends Meredith McIntosh and John Herrmann when they were passing through France.)
So, we packed it up and drove back to Ardèche. It was good to be back.
We practiced…
And practiced…And busked at the market on Saturday morning…I think we made about 12 Euros each…
Then, we drove to the middle of no where (a beautiful place)…
and we recorded…
