Fiddle | Lindsay McCaw | Intermediate | Period 2 | Week 3 (July 20-25, 2025)
Rags, struts, stomps and gallops. Tunes that have more than 3 chords! If you don’t already have some “raggy tunes” in your repertoire or you just want to learn more or if you just like fun, come on down and learn some fiddle rags and rag-adjacent tunes and some of the techniques that make them sound good and make them fun to play.
About the Instructor
Lindsay McCaw is a musician and puppeteer who lives in Detroit, MI. She has been playing fiddle, banjo, guitar, and Hawaiian guitar for two decades. She has several music projects in Detroit including “The Boblo Islanders”. She is a founding member of the Detroit Square Dance Society and The Corn Potato String Band, and has called square dances and taught American folk dance all over the world. She is a two-time winner of the Minneapolis Jug Band Contest and four-time first-place winner of the Sheffield Field Days Fiddle contest in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom.
As a puppeteer, Lindsay has performed and created puppet shows with groups all over the US, Europe and Asia. She spent years as a staff member with well-known puppet companies such as Bread and Puppet Theatre in Glover, VT and In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre in Minneapolis, MN.
She co-founded a company called “Flying Cardboard Theater” who build and perform puppet shows and produce the Detroit Contastoria Fest. She also currently works with Detroit Puppet Company.