Mystery of the Ook Pik Documentary and Joe Weed & Marty Kendall Concert

This concert will be indoors. Come enjoy live music and a documentary.
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Suggested donation: $25.00 - Pay at the door
Cash and electronic payments (Paypal & Zelle) accepted

7:00 Documentary followed by Q & A
8:00 Concert - Joe Weed & Marty Kendall

Musicians - Bring your instruments.
You are all invited to join us in closing out the evening with a
group rendition of the Ookpik Waltz

Join us for a unique house concert experience. Many of you already know Joe Weed, and are familiar with his music. He lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains where he records in his Highland Studio. You may think of Joe as a great fiddler, long-time supporter of the Santa Clara Valley Fiddlers Association, and an entertaining raconteur. Nationally he is known as a producer, composer, musician, and film-maker.

Local fiddlers frequently play the Ookpik Waltz, but they may not know anything more than the title of this waltz . Myths abound about the exotic origin of The Ookpik Waltz (or is it You Pick? or U-Pick? Ute-Pick?).

Joe’s research reveals the tune’s actual history, restoring credit to Ukrainian-Canadian musician Frankie Rodgers, who wrote the Ookpik Waltz in the mid 1960s. Joe’s film also takes a close-up look at the country music scene in western Canada in the 1950s and 60s, and the influence of popular music from south of the border — the U.S. - Canadian border, that is. Listeners today barely recognize the original Ookpik that Rodgers wrote. Why? Joeexplores the fascinating story of fiddlers transforming
the piece into the popular“standard” wellknown today.

Joe has released seven albums of his own, produced projects for independent artists and labels, and composed scores for film, TV and museums. Ken Burns’ documentary “The Mayo Clinic” includes
Joe’s production with British guitar virtuoso Martin Simpson, and Burns’“The American Buffalo” includes a Joe Weed original, “Hymn to the Big Sky.” Joe’s compositions grace the films and exhibits at the
National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, California and at The Lincoln Museum.

In 2018, Joe released “Two Steps West of the Mississippi,” a collection of his original instrumental music based on American fiddle roots.

Joe’s film “The Waltz to Westphalia” traces the origins and development of the Polish wedding song that traveled the US, eventually becoming “The Westphalia Waltz,” now a standard of Texas fiddling.

This pic of Marty and Joe on their bicycles is in Spain near Gibraltar, with Africa in the background. For over 10 years, Marty and Joe have been spending four months each year in Europe, riding their bicycles. Marty posts photos, and Joe posts videos of the beautiful places they see, all synched to his own compositions.