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Den danske duo Jensen & Bugge turnerer og udgiver CD i USA med Dwight Lamb

I øjeblikket er duoen Jensen & Bugge på turné i USA. I løbet af turens første uge, er det blevet til ikke mindre end 11 koncerter med harmonikaspilleren Dwight Lamb fra Onawa, Iowa.

Dwights morfar, Chris Jerup, emigrerede fra Vendsyssel i Nordjylland i 1893. Han var søn af den legendariske spillemand Kræn Jerup og spillede selv både violin og diatonisk harmonika. Så han medbragte et stort repertoire af dansk spillemandmusik. Da Chris solgte sin gård og gik på pension, flyttede han ind hos den da 12-årige Dwights og hans forældre. Og dermed fik Dwight lejlighed til at lære hele morfarens danske repertoire.

Som 19-årig begyndte Dwight også at spille violin, ”over the top”, dvs. med venstre hånd men uden at skifte strengene rundt. (Det var ikke en mulighed at strenge om, da han spillede på sin fars violin). Med årene blev han storspillemand med amerikansk old-time musik som speciale. Han har undervist og inspireret utroligt mange yngre musikere, mange af dem vidste slet ikke at han også spiller enradet, diatonisk harmonika!

Men heldigvis indspillede han et par danske harmonika stykker på et par af sine violin-cd’er og de cd’er endte til sidst i Danmark. På den måde fik Kristian Bugge og Mette Kathrine Jensen nys om Dwight og for tre år siden fik de arrangeret et møde på en festival i Minnesota. Siden da har de spillet sammen mange gange og i maj 2010 kom Dwight for første gang til Danmark, på turné som trio med Jensen & Bugge. En del af koncerterne fra den turné, blev indspillet af lydteknikeren Torben Sminge og samlet til udgivelse.

I forbindelse med deres nuværende USA tur er deres nye cd "Dwight Lamb, Jensen & Bugge -Live in Denmark 2010" udkommet i USA på Missouri Valley Music.
GO’ Danish Folk Music udgiver samme CD i DK/Europa senere og i forbindelsen årets Tønder Festival i August.

Derfor kommer Dwight Lamb igen til Danmark sidst på sommeren og skal spille flere koncerter sammen med Jensen & Bugge, bl.a. på Tønder Festivalen og Højby Stævnet.

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Dwight Lamb was born in Moorhead, IA, on May 16, 1934 to Clarence G. and Mary Lamb. Descendents of Danish immigrants, the Lamb family cherished the traditions of self-made music and entertainment. Dwight's grandfather, Chris Jerup, played traditional Danish melodies and American-style fiddle tunes on a single-row button accordion. His father, Clarence Lamb, played the fiddle. Dwight took to both these instruments and mastered them.

Dwight plays a style of fiddling often referred to as Missouri Valley Style. Also called "North Missouri Hornpipe Style", this manner playing and repertoire of tunes was both melodically complex and technically demanding. The greatest exponent of this style of playing was Uncle Bob Walters of Tekamah, Nebraska. Tekamah is located on the Missouri River and Dwight happened to live directly across the Big Muddy in Iowa. Dwight became a protégé of Walters and learned much of his vast repertoire of hornpipes, waltzes and other dance tunes.

Dwight also became close friends and exchanged tunes with other great fiddlers in the region. Most notable among these were National Champion fiddler Cyril Stinnett and radio performers Lonnie Robertson and Casey Jones, all from Missouri. Being a left-handed player himself, Dwight took special interest in southpaw style of Cyril Stinnett.

Dwight was also influenced by great Anglo-Canadian fiddlers he heard on records, including Ned Landry and Don Messer. The single-note style tunes and clear and melodic sound of these players attracted Dwight and many other fiddlers in the Missouri Valley region.

As a young man Dwight served in the Army from 1956 to 1958. He is retired from the U. S. Postal Service in Onawa and also served as the town's Mayor.

Dwight has judged major competitions such as Cotton, MN, The Missouri State Fair Fiddling Championship and the National Fiddling Championship at Weiser, Idaho. He competed and placed in this event in 1966 and 1967. In 1968 he judged served as a judge. He has taught fiddle playing at the Bethel Youth Fiddle Camp in Missouri and Fiddle Tunes in Port Townsend, WA. He has performed at the Smithsonian's Festival of American Folklife and The University of Chicago Folk Festival. In 1998 he received the Iowa Arts Award for his work in preserving traditional fiddling. He is very active in fiddling and enjoys playing tunes with friends and sharing his music with aspiring players interested in learning his style of music.

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Dwight enjoys bringing his unique Missouri Valley style of fiddle playing to festivals throughout the United States and Canada. He also has extensive experience teaching and sharing his music. To contact Dwight Lamb for booking or other information write, call or email:

Dwight Lamb

703 7th St.

Onawa, Iowa 51040

712-423-2352

dlamb@willinet.net

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