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Learn Round Peak / Galax Style Fiddle Tunes with Eddie Bond
June 13, 2025 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Join us at the Handmade House (110 Talleys Alley) on Friday, June 13, 2025 at 5PM for a lesson in Round Peak / Galax Style Fiddle Tunes with Eddie Bond.
Learn fiddle in the old-time way, phrase by phrase from with one of the most respected fiddlers in the Blue Ridge Mountain region. Eddie will teach Round Peak/Galax style tunes with attention to bowing.
Cost is $35. Workshop is a minimum of 75 minutes in length.
This workshop is for intermediate and advanced fiddlers.
A minimum of 4 participants is required, so we encourage you to sign up in advance!
Eddie Bond grew up in Fries, Virginia, where the fiddle and banjo are still welded in a Virginia dance tradition. Eddie is the fiddler and lead singer in the New Ballards Branch Bogtrotters, and is the winner of many fiddle contests, including the Galax Old Fiddlers’ Convention. In 2018, Eddie was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.