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Fiddlin' Pete's Calendar
The second Thursday of every month!
Sterling Heights Assisted Living 1:30 PM
(760) 873-3100
Bishop Care Center 3:00 PM
(760) 872-1000

The amazing "Smooth and Easy" Neil Gelvin is performing with Fiddlin' Pete at all dates below unless otherwise noted.

 
January 2013
29 - Feb 2  Elko Cowboy Poetry Gathering
JR's Gold Country Casino  8:30-11:00 PM
Ernie Sites Trio
Ernie Sites, Pete Charles, Fiddlin' Pete Watercott
and Michael Martin Murphy!

February 2013
9 Double Eagle Resort
With Neil Gelvin
June Lake, CA

March 2013

In the studio recording a new CD!

April 2013

12  Private Party
Furnace Creek Ranch
Death Valley, CA

May 2013

22 Mule Days!
George Duke and Friends
Tri-County Fairgrounds
Bishop, CA

23 Mule Days!
Tallman Pavillion
Tri-County Fairgrounds
Bishop, CA

June 2013

5-9 Private Party
Somewhere in the Redwoods
Northern California

July 2013

4 Bridgeport, CA
4th of July Celebration
5:00 - 8:00 PM
In front of the historic
Mono County Courthouse

7 Pokonobe Lodge
Dinner Concert!
"Patriotic Songs"
Our 9th Season!
6:00 PM, Reservations Required
Call 760 873-4616

21 Pokonobe Lodge
Dinner Concert!
"Outlaw Ballads"
Our 9th Season!
6:00 PM, Reservations Required
Call 760 873-4616

26 Private Party
Wedding Rehearsal Dinner
Convict Lake, CA


August 2013

3 Joseph Walker Days
On the West Walker River
Yerington, NV
Come and Camp!
More info soon!

4-10 Sierra Summer Festival
The 36th Season!
The Original Mammoth Lakes Music Festival
More info soon!

11 Pokonobe Lodge
Dinner Concert!
"Fiddle Fest!"
Our 9th Season!
6:00 PM, Reservations Required
Call 760 873-4616

12- 9/18 On The Road To Minnesota!
May be some gigs to announce
with Larry Long!

September 2013

20-22 Millpond Music Festival
Bishop's Hometown Music Festival
Inyo Council for the Arts



 
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 Fiddlin' Pete Watercott performing "Old Joe Clark" at the Elko Cowboy Poetry Gathering (youtube video)

 

 

I hope that you have enjoyed the video featuring my fiddle performance at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering.  Now certainly the fiddle has played a much more important role in the old traditional cowboy music than guitar.  Certainly the fiddle, along with banjos and harmonicas were much more likely to be seen at a campfire "out on the trail".  It would be tough to pack a guitar on horseback, but you could easily pack a fiddle on horseback.  Of course a fiddle would never fit in your pocket, like a harmonica, but you could pack the fiddle on a mule, haul a fiddle in the chuck wagon.


If you are going to fiddle, what better place to fiddle than out on a ranch beneath the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountain range.  This fiddle I am playing in the photo was a fiddle built in France in 1898.  This old fiddle originally sold for just $9.  Now that is a good price for a fiddle. It is my "go to" fiddle anytime I perform on the fiddle.  And believe me I fiddle, fiddle, fiddle, fiddle!

Playing fiddle with partner Neil Gelvin at the Laws Railroad Museum.  There is nothin' that sounds better than a fiddle at a train museum, in my opinion.  Of course the fiddle will lend itself to many occasions and places.  I was actually advised that the more I used "fiddle" on my webpage, the more likely someone who googled "fiddle" would find me.  So that is why I will tell you right now, I fiddle for trains, fiddle for friends, fiddle for weddings, fiddle for birthdays. I fiddle for a reason, I fiddle for the season, and sometimes I fiddle for absolutely no reason at all except to fiddle, fiddle, and fiddle!  And now I sure hope that will convince anyone that I can sure fiddle, fiddle, fiddle!