Bluegrass Fiddling with Patrick McGonigle, Part 1

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BLUEGRASS FIDDLING with PATRICK McGONIGLE

Bluegrass Fiddling with Patrick McGonigle, Part 1

Bluegrass Fiddling with Patrick McGonigle, Part 2: Patrick Teaches “Stoney Lonesome”

Bluegrass Fiddling with Patrick McGonigle, Part 1

Brittany’s guest is Patrick McGonigle, a classically trained violinist from Victoria, British Columbia. Patrick discovered fiddle music and improvising at the age of 18. He is a Berklee College of Music graduate, and is finishing up his master’s degree at the New England Conservatory of Music, while touring and recording with the Lonely Heartstring Band, one of the Northeast’s most popular new progressive bluegrass bands. Brittany and Patrick get started with a duet on “Whiskey Before Breakfast.”

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