If you want to find copies of Farmhouse Fiddlers, it’s available on Amazon.com. To order, click here. It’s not stocked in regular bookstores, and it may appear in some databases as “no longer in print,” but there are still a few hundred copies left from the original print run, plus any number of used copies floating around, so it’s not hard to get!
Awards & Praise for Farmhouse Fiddlers
Leslie Cross Award (for book-length nonfiction), Council for Wisconsin Writers
Outstanding Achievement Award, Wisconsin Library Association
“. . . a valuable study that preserves (through interviews with musicians themselves) and documents (in many fine and well-selected photographs) the world of these vital rural fiddlers. . . .” — Choice
“. . . this collection of anecdotes and photographs captures the cadence of the old-time fiddlers in funny and moving stories.” — Bloomsbury Review
“This is a marvelous, lovingly constructed tribute to a bygone era.” — Sing Out!
“. . . a perfect marriage of photography and spoken history.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Fiddlers rejoice!” — Bluegrass Now
“. . . a lovely book about a gentler, sweeter time . . .” — Dirty Linen
“Ample quotes . . . lift this book from merely reporting on the flowering and decline of a tradition. . . . gives insight into the ways in which old-time music fits into the lives of the people who play and appreciate it.” — Minnesota History
Farmhouse Fiddlers: Music & Dance Traditions in the Rural Midwest • softcover nonfiction • 128 pages • 11” x 8 1/2” • over 80 photographs • Music / American Rural History • published by Midwest Traditions • ISBN 1-883953-06-5 • $19.95 list price
