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Sue Draheim ( ) (August 17, 1949 in Oakland, California〔Larkin, Colin (2006). (''The encyclopedia of popular music. ) London: Oxford University Press. p. 100. ISBN 1561592374〕〔see also (''californiabirthindex.org'' ) and (''old time birthdays for August'' ) for verification of birthdate〕 – April 11, 2013 in Berea, Kentucky)〔The Mudcat Café, (''R.I.P. fiddler Sue Draheim'' )〕〔News of Sue Draheim's passing reached across the Atlantic; fRoots, a UK monthly music journal, reported the news immediately (see (''Sue Draheim RIP'' )), and an article memorializing her appeared in ''The Independent'', a major UK newspaper (see: Hunt, Ken (29 May 2013), (''Sue Draheim: Widely admired folk violinist'' )). An obituary article for Draheim appeared also in (''Folkwales'' ), an on-line journal based in Wales. That she was appreciated and loved outside the English speaking world is indicated by a tribute to her (including a link to a recording of her playing ''Little Sadie'') on the Spanish language blog of ''Yesternow'', a radio station originating in Madrid (see (''"...ese gran sonido al violín de Sue Draheim. Descanse en Paz."'' )).〕 was an American fiddler, boasting a more than forty year musical career in the US and the UK. Growing up in North Oakland, Draheim began her first private violin lessons at age eleven, having started public school violin instruction at age eight while attending North Oakland's Peralta Elementary School. She also attended Claremont Jr. High, and graduated from Oakland Technical High School in 1967.〔(Oakland Tech Notable Alumni )〕〔see also (Oakland Tech Centennial Hall of Honor: Sue Draheim )〕 Originally trained as a classical violinist, Draheim became involved in many other genres and recorded albums with groups representing Cajun, Old Time, country, Zydeco, folk jazz, Irish and British folk music. Early on in her career, Celtic fiddle became Draheim's major focus. While Draheim was primarily a fiddler, she never lost touch with her classical training, and was a member of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra and the Bay Area Women's Philharmonic〔Young Fogies Gazette, (''Sue Draheim biography'' ) (scan courtesy of Susie Goehring, Field Recorders Collective)〕 as well as UC Berkeley's University Chamber Chorus;〔UC Berkeley, Dept. of Music - (''Past Performances, University Chamber Chorus'' )〕 Draheim, along with fiddler Kerry Parker, also "augmented" the harp trio "Trillium".〔San Francisco Early Music Society - (''Three Harps and Two Fiddles...'' )〕 She also played in the US premiere of Frank Zappa's experimental orchestral piece ''A Zappa Affair''.〔Berkeley Symphony Orchestra - (''A Zappa Affair'' )〕 She was described by Gael Alcock, cellist/composer with whom she performed one of Alcock's pieces, as "fiddler extraordinaire".〔gaelalcock.com - (''"Minor Excursions"'' )〕 == Late 1960s to early 1970s in the US == In the late 1960s, Draheim moved to a North Oakland house well known in the Bay Area music community and called simply "Colby Street". This move proved to be a decisive one in terms of her musical career as it was where she changed from a "violinist" into a "fiddler". In writing her short biography in 1970 to accompany the album notes for ''Berkeley Farms'', Draheim gives us some background on that transition: Draheim quickly got involved in American mountain string band music, forming a group called the "Diesel Duck Revue" in 1967 with Mac Benford, Hank Bradley, Sue Rosenberg, and Rick Shubb,〔Smithsonian Folkways - (liner notes for BERKELEY FARMS ), p.5〕 performing with them at Berkeley's Freight & Salvage in 1968.〔chickenonaunicycle.com - (''Freight and Salvage'' )〕 At about the same time she started playing with a Colby Street group that, when she performed with them at the Sky River Rock Festival (Tenino, Washington in 1968 and 1969), called themselves "Dr. Humbead's New Tranquility String Band and Medicine Show". The band consisted of Sue Draheim, Jim Bamford, Mac Benford, and Will Spires and owed its name to their manager and sound man Earl Crabb (aka "The Great Humbead"); by the time Mike Seeger arranged for them to be recorded for the Folkways BERKELEY FARMS album in 1970, they'd shortened the charming but cumbersome name to simply "The New Tranquility String Band".〔Malone, Bill C. (2011). (''Music from the True Vine: Mike Seeger's Life and Musical Journey'' ). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. p.153. ISBN 0807835102〕 Performing with the band, her photograph appeared on the poster for the 1968 Berkeley Folk Music Festival.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sue Draheim at the 1968 Berkeley Folk Music Festival )〕 Draheim and Dr. Humbead's New Tranquility String Band also appeared at the 1969 Third Annual San Diego State Folk Festival;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dr, Humbead's New Tranquility String Band at the 1969 SD State Folk Festival )〕 links to recordings of their performance there are provided on folkartsrarerecords.com's website.〔folkartsrarerecords.com - ((links to 1969 recordings of Dr, Humbead's New Tranquility String Band) ): (''Sally in the Garden'' ), (''Goodbye Liza Jane'' ), (''Flying Clouds'' ), and (''Bully of the Town'' ).〕 Colby Street housed other groups as well, one of them being the "Golden Toad", featuring mandolinist and guitarist Will Spires; she joined them for the summer solstice concert at Grace Cathedral in 1970. In 1970, Joe Cooley, Irish button accordion player who was living in San Francisco at the time, visited the Colby Street house and that was the beginning of Draheim's lifelong attachment to Irish music. She and others joined Cooley to perform Saturday nights at SF's long-standing Irish pub, the Harrington Bar, making up the band which they called "Gráinneog Céilidh."〔(''Will Spires'' p.4 ), see also (''Sue Draheim'' pp. 4-5 )〕〔A note on the origin of the band's name: ''Gráinneog Céilidh'' translates literally as ''Hedgehog Party''. The word ''céilidh'' has become more specifically associated with Irish dance bands, practically all of whom include ''Céilidh (or Céili) Band'' in the final part of their names (see ''Modern ceilidhs'' and (''The Ceili Bands of the 60's and before'' ) ). A ''gráinneog'' (''hedgehog'') is a much maligned creature in Ireland (see (''The Folklore and Traditions of The Irish Hedgerow'' )) and has a reputation for being dirty and unkempt; Joe Cooley may have had the somewhat ragged appearance of the Colby Street people in mind when the name was suggested but, having a friendly little joke at their expense, admitted only that the hedgehog was "just the warmest, furriest little creature" (see (''The Joe Cooley Tapes'' )). (Special thanks to Jody Stecher for the story behind the name).〕 Years later, Draheim's command of the Irish folk music idiom as well as her versatility in other genres would prompt one fan to comment: "And that is a very apt illustration of the point: Sue Draheim, a classically-trained violinist who has been mistaken for a real-deal Sligo fiddler who nowadays has a chair in a San Francisco symphony orchestra as well as playing in old timey bands".〔Mudcat Café - (''the UK folk revival in 2010'' )〕 In 1970 Draheim also got involved with several musicians at what was known as Sweets Mill Music Camp, about 200 miles east of Oakland on the edge of the Sierra National Forest. It was there that she played with legendary Delta blues guitarist Sam Chatmon in a group called the "California Sheiks" (named after Chatmon's back-home group, the "Mississippi Sheiks". Some recordings of Draheim and Chatmon from that period are known to have survived: one, a 7-inch mono tape reel holding eighteen songs and labelled "Box 3, Item 2007.04sdff070" in the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive (which misspelled her name as "Drahiem"),〔UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive (Lou Curtiss San Diego Folk Festival Collection 1962-1987) - (''Box 3, Item 2007.04sdff070: Sweets Mill Music Camp - The original musical meeting of "The California Sheiks" 1970 '' )〕 and the other, one song (which is not found in UCLA's collection) which was released in CD form in 1999 as part of a Sam Chatmon retrospective.〔discogs.com - (''Sam Chatmon 1970-1974'' )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sue Draheim」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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