Recently, I sat at the piano with my very good friend Don Woodcock. Please enjoy his video below!!!!!

Don says, “I learned these tunes from hearing my father play them when I was ten years old. I started playing piano accompaniment with him when I was that age; 1958. I recall one day that I was sitting at the piano all by myself just pecking away at some piano keys making some chords not even realizing what the chords were or what I was doing. Had no prior lessons. In came my Dad and out came the fiddle and the first thing I knew I was playing along with him never having done this before and no one showing me how either. I remember that Mom was gone somewhere doing something that day and when she got home she was quite surprised to hear my Dad and I playing music together. Probably a hard story to believe but all very true. And it wasn't long before I was playing piano at Kendrew Grange or the Masonic Hall in Ogdensburg accompanying my Dad on an occasional square dance set when the regular pianist needed a break. Played at New York State Fair with Dad when I was 11, 1959, on one of the hottest days that I ever can remember; so bad that the pigs were actually keeling over from the heat; we must have been tough lol. Getting back to the tunes at hand, I recall playing piano along with both of those jigs at the Masonic dances with my Dad. After I started playing fiddle, I don't ever recall playing those tunes at any gigs out in public although I played for hundreds of gigs where there was square dancing.”

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