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Fiddlin’ AroundThe Official Newsletter of the Utah Old Time Fiddlers

Officers/Board Members :President ..................................... Jarl K. JacobsonVice President ................................. Dennis LarkinSecretary/Treasurer ......................Linda LindstromPast President ................................ Sherry AdderlyContest/Membership ......................... June CrosbyPhotographer/Historian.............. .. Stephen AdderlyNewsletter Editor ......................... Shelley GardnerWebsite Manager..............................John Gardner

Chapter Chairs:Dixie ................................................ Jack JeppsonFish Lake ..................................... Rosemary PricePahvant ........................................ Norman MincerPioneer ..........................................Doug AndersonSalt Lake......................................... Lynn BrightonUtah County........................................ Mark Mott

Contributing Authors for this Edition:Sherry Adderly Lynn BrightonMarilyn Dillard John GardnerShelley Gardner Mark MottDale Pendleton

Newsletter Editor ......................... Shelley GardnerNewsletter Layout ............................ John Gardner

We’ve ended another great year together, and lookforward to the start of new songs, new friendships,and more great music in 2012!

© Copyright Utah Old Time Fiddlers, 2012. All rights reserved.

Inside this EditionSalt Lake Chapter News ..................................... 2Soda Rock Ramblers Visit Salt Lake City ............ 3Utah County Chapter ........................................... 4Pioneer Chapter .................................................. 4Dixie Chapter ...................................................... 5Rod Erickson ...................................................... 5Web Site Updates ............................................... 6Legacy of Music .................................................. 6Poor Girl (Sheet music)........................................ 8

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Salt Lake Chapter NewsLooking back on the year of

2011, the Salt Lake Chapter had agreat year. We performed at manySenior Centers, Assisted Livingfacilities, church parties, and SaltLake County and Salt Lake areaevents and did some fund raisinggigs for several organizations.

Looking ahead to 2012, we willcontinue to book gigs and look fornew venues to perform for. OnApril 14, we look forward to a workshop by a groupChuck and Marilyn Dillard are bringing to Salt Lake,the Soda Rock Ramblers. This will be held inconjunction with our regular jam session held at WestValley City Hall ( 3500 South 2700 West). The eventis open to all, so bring a friend! Come to the jamstarting at 10:00 am, with the workshop will start at12:00 noon and go until 2:00.

The Salt Lake Chapter continues to have a FiddleWorkshop conducted by June Crosby. In January,was held on the 4th Saturday from 1:00-2:00. FiddlePlayers of all levels are welcome; there is NO chargeto workshop participants. We usually have thisworkshop the 2nd Saturday (please check the SaltLake Chapter gig sheet to make sure of date). Gigsheets are updated regularly on the website.

In May, we will hold a Fiddle and Pickin’Contest at the West Valley City Hall. More details willbe coming. We will follow the same age groups andrules used at the State contest. Last year, weawarded $2400 in prize money. We hope to see youhere. This contest is easily accessible to schoolchildren who live in northern Utah, as well as the Salt

Lake region, so now is the time to get recruiting andpracticing for the contest. As the contest drawscloser, the website will be updated with all the details.

The Utah Old Time Fiddlers organization, with allthe chapters, provides a network of friends with thecommon goal of developing our music talent andspreading the joy of music to the community.

Keep fiddlin’ and pickin’Lynn BrightonSalt Lake Chapter Chair




Soda Rock Ramblers Visit Salt Lake CityUtah Old Time Fiddlers members and friends are

nvited to attend a Special Salt Lake Chapter jam andworkshop with Soda Rock Ramblers on April 14,2012. This four member band will be teaching us afew tunes, and we will learn about playing music forcommunity dances. Please bring your instruments andjoin the fun.

Saturday April 14 at 11:00am to 2:00pm (Jam at 11:00 and workshop 12 noon to 2:00pm)West Valley City Hall (enter West Side)3600 South 2700 WestWest Valley City, Utah

Soda Rock Ramblers Band Members include:-Linda Askew on guitar-David Cahn on accordian, fiddle, bass-Larry Edelman on mandolin, fiddle, octavemandolin-Scott Mathis on mandolin, mandola, manjo-uke,guitarron

An optional donation to help musicians with travelexpenses will be appreciated.

Two additional community events are planned for thisspecial weekend with the Soda Rock Ramblers:

1. Dillard House ConcertFriday, April 13 at 7:00 pm745 W. Chaparral Drive Murray UTSuggested donation $15;RSVP needed 801 413-4804

2. Community DanceSaturday night, April 14 at 7:00 pm Holladay United Church of Christ2631 East Murray-Holladay RoadTickets: $10.00 adults and $5.00 childrenDance is a live caller event, all ages, no danceexperience needed

For more information please contact Marilyn [email protected] or call 801-413-4804(Marilyn’s cell phone)

Soda Rock Ramblers CD: CAFE CURIOSO will beavailable for sale. www.sodarockramblers.com All proceeds will be donated to musicians for helpwith travel expenses.




Utah County Chapter

In December, The Utah County Chapter hosted anannual Christmas party and jam. Members werepleased to see Jarl Jacobson, Lynn Brighton and bigJohn Harman in attendance for this event. I would liketo thank them for supporting the Utah CountyChapter. Jarl helped me present an award to RheaJean Hancock for appreciation for all the work she hasdone for the Utah County Old Time Fiddlers. Rhea hasdone a lot of work for our chapter, and has done it formany years. After dinner, we had a wonderful jam.Thanks to everyone that helped that night.

The Utah County Chapter is starting to pick upnew members. I would especially like to thank JessecaNight for all the help she has given our group. She is amusical teacher and she brings a lot of students to thejams. Our group has been performing quite a bit herelately. We have some talented players and it’s been alot of fun. We have just recently purchased a newsound system (Mackie 150) that is amazing. I wouldlike to personally thank all the people that havesupported the Utah County chapter- we couldn’t do itwithout your help!

I would like to congratulate Jack Jeppson for beingelected chapter chairman of the Dixie Chapter; he willdo a good job.

Mark MottUtah County Chapter Chair

The Pioneer Chapter held our annualMembership Drive Jam and Luncheon on Jan 7 atthe Pleasant Valley Library. Thanks to SusanAnderson, Joni Despain and Shelley Gardner forhelping with registration for new and returningmembers. We had a lot of people in attendance, andas usual, the music is especially good when we have

all of our members present. Jarl and Lillie Jacobsoncame for this event. The library allowed us to playvideos from the State Fiddle Contest on a widescreen, and at the luncheon, we asked them to crankup the sound so we could enjoy the good music fromthe award winners. These videos are available at thewebsite.

Our Chapter is experimenting with Satellite Jamsin-between our normal jams. A Satellite Jam is asmaller event, hosted in someone’s home, wheremembers can play in an informal setting. We havethree homes that have opened up for these jams.Some of these jams are invitation only events; othershave opened to all. It is encouraging to look forwardto playing with one another and developing strongerfriendships. These events also offer moreopportunities to learn the songs that we don’t havemastered yet.

Meagan Gardner was asked by her orchestrateacher to give a talk about the UTOF to about 200students at the Sandridge Junior High in Roy, Utah onThursday, Jan 26. The 200 or more students weregathered for the Beginning Orchestra Festival, andwere from many Junior High Schools around theregion. Meagan explained what our organizationdoes, and then was asked to play 3 songs to showwhat kind of music we play. She demonstrated hertalents with Saint Anne’s Reel, Whiskey BeforeBreakfast, and Drowsy Maggie. Another guestspeaker demonstrated playing fiddle style on a viola.This was a wonderful recruiting opportunity, andhopefully we will see new members from thispromotion. We appreciate the wonderful effortsMeagan has done to recruit other youth to the OTFA.

Shelley GardnerPioneer Chapter Member and Newsletter Editor

Pioneer Chapter




Dixie ChapterThe Dixie Chapter ended the year with quite a

couple of jam sessions. We elected a new Chairman.The lucky person is Banjo Jack Jeppson!! Congratsto him, he will do a fine job. I also want to thankRalph Peterson for his years of service as our Chair.Ralph has however, agreed to be co-chair to fill inwhen Jack is not here. Jack and Jeanette have nowleft on their two month concert tour with RodErickson they go on every year at this time. Speakingof which, we had the pleasure of having Mr. RodErickson come to our jam and sing and jam with us.What a treat it was to listen to such a talent! Thankyou for coming to our jam, Rod!!

Rod EricksonRod Erickson is a truly great entertainer who

recorded his first yodel song in the early 70’s,following a year of training under the renowned operainstructor, Dr. Jean Wardian, Head of the GonzagaUniversity Music Department in Spokane,Washington.

His first release after signing with MGM records

was “She Taught Me How To Yodel”. This songreached the “Top Ten” world wide within a month.This release was followed with “Yodel Sweet Molly”,“Cattle Call” and “Cannonball Yodel”, all threemaking the charts. In 1976, “Going Home”, a song hewrote, went “Top Ten” in Canada and had the biggestreaction ever for a Country song in that country. Hewas “Top Pick” in Billboard Magazine, andconsidered a virtuoso in yodeling; “The Best” by theGavin Report.

Rod has made many TV appearances and was onWSM’s Ralph Emery Show, as well as Paul Harvey’s“The Rest Of The Story”. He was on the MGMShow in Nashville, and toured the SoutheasternStates with Grandpa Jones, Stringbean and othersfrom the Grand Ole Opery. Other stars he workedwith include Tammy Wynette, Marty Robbins, BillAnderson, Mel Tillis, George Jones, Lefty Frizzel,Jerry Lee Lewis and many more.

Rod andNancy own theFireside Lodge, aB&B, Restaurant,RV Park andRecording Studioin Spirit Lake,Idaho. During thesummer monthswhile in Idaho, theFireside Lodgebecomes the musiccenter of theNorthwest, withvisitors andparticipantsattending frommiles around.




Legacy of Music

Web Site UpdatesOver the next few months we will be moving our

web page to a new server system. Our old service isdiscontinuing its operations, so we need to find a newhome for our organization web page. The newservice is being selected to provide us with betteropportunities to grow our online presence. While wewill be working diligently to ensure a smoothtransition, there may be some momentary interruptionsin service.

If you have any questions or concerns about thetransition, or if you have trouble accessing the webpage, please feel free to contact me.

John Gardner. 801-782-9208.

Editor’s Note:We’ve featured 90 year old Dale Pendleton beforeas being a role model, mentor and teacher in thePioneer Chapter. We appreciate the legacy that heleaves behind for our young people. In this article,Dale details the legacy that was handed to him.

Dale Pendleton has been writing a book. Chapter10 is called “Music- A Way of Life”, and in thissection, the much younger Dale describes aconversation with his father while sitting in hisblacksmith shop. Dale asks his father how hedeveloped his talent for music. William JoshuaPendleton described the process, beginning frombeing a young boy in Salt Late City, where he learnedto play the Trumpet in brass band. They would marchand play for various celebrations.

Then Dale asked his father about the violin andguitar. Father Joshua answered that his father before

him played the violin in the town orchestra, and forthe town dances. The grandfather had taught him a lotof that music, and would allow Joshua to play withhim at the town dances. As the conversation movedto the house, it progressed into a jam session, withFather Joshua playing the fiddle and Dale playingback up on the guitar. This was a usual occurrence inthe Pendleton home.

Dale’s mother Millie had a beautiful singing voice,and she taught all the kids how to sing and memorizethe words. Dale is the youngest of 6 siblings, eachone picked up the musical bug. Father Joshua taughtthe children how to play the various string instruments(fiddle, guitar, mandolin, etc.) and when they gotbetter, he let them play in his band. Dale recalls all thechildren enjoying playing and singing together aroundthe home, church, etc. Music was a way of life.

Joshua Pendleton came from a family of 13children, 11 of whom went on and married those who




Photo is circa 1950. Left to right: Dale Pendleton (on guitar), Uncle Melvin, Willis, Oral, “Bill” JoshuaPenndleton (on fiddle), and Aunt Thelma (with her two boys) playing in the church hall.

would also sing and play, and at the two day annualfamily reunions at their parents home, they would playsuch music that it would spill out into the town ofWanship, into the community and at a dance for thetown. Joshua played in a band and would often beasked by the Bishop to play music for the dances heldin the Hall. Bill (Joshua) would play the fiddle at theseevents, with other musicians playing guitar and piano.There would be a children’s dance earlier in the day,followed by the adult dance in the evening that wouldstretch to midnight.

Joshua could also play the cornet, organ, piano,mandolin and banjo. The old violin is still prized bythe family, but many of the other instruments were lostor sold along the way. One of the saddest days for

the family was when Joshua had a stroke and couldn’tplay anymore. Dale’s main regret of his father’s musicis that he didn’t have a tape recorder or some way tocapture the hundreds of songs that Joshua could play,and the several that he composed. Dale’s spent hisadult time trying to capture that legacy in print, andalso recording the songs as he can from memory, andalso passing it on to others, in the form of passion andsupport for those learning to play. Maybe that is whyDale is always so gracious and gentle with thechildren in our group, because he’s honoring his fatherwith every child that he shares his music with.

Compliled by Shelley Gardner,with notes and sources from Dale Pendleton


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