in my area. John had served as primary author and editor for The Bluegrass Blog from its launch in 2006 until being folded into Bluegrass Today in September of 2011. Championship. My number one goal is to teach music, especially higher education, said Porchak. One year, while she and her parents were in Nashville for the Grand Master contest, Two years later, she returned to Nashville and won the U.S. Grand Masters Fiddle Championship. Her friends joke that she pays rent at the library. Aynsley began playing fiddle at the age of 9. This man came up to our table and he recognized Buddy. Meet The Band. The thesis is a lyrical analysis of Louvin Brothers songs and how the brothers bridged the gap between the sacred and the secular, Porchak says. a university, Aynsley said. Looks like this story got lost in the preparations for the World of Bluegrass. Aynsley Porchak Fiddle. My Profile In 2018, Aynsley joined the . In 2018, Aynsley joined the . They are: Bobby Powell, guitar; Timmy Jones, mandolin; Reese Combs, bass; James McDowell, banjo (who looks like a young Don Stover); and Aynsley Porchak, fiddle (wearing a 'pillbox' hat that reminded Dr Janie of those ladies used to wear to church). Chat email or call (480)-624-2500. urged her to compete while she was there. She is the daughter of Roger and Jan Porchak and is from Woodstock, Ontario, Canada. She is a So, I just won the Grand Master Fiddle contest, she said. of Jerry Douglas, Shawn Camp, ETSU alumnus Barry Bales, Charlie Cushman and Johnny Opening Act-The Mosley Brothers. Im honored to begin this amazing opportunity to work with ETSU, its faculty and students.. Madly, crazy in love withBLUEGRASS!! She was introduced to bluegrass in her early teens, and quickly fell in love with the music. Amythyst Kiah (below) during her student days at ETSU, performing old-time music with a group at The Carter Family Fold in Scott County, Virginia. However, by February, James was starting to have a crush on me but I was completely oblivious. After touring with New Zealand singer Tex Morton, described by Trenwith as a hypnotist, whip-cracker, and sharpshooter, the band linked up with Slim Dusty, a legendary Australian country singer as popular Down Under, Trenwith says, as Johnny Cash was in the States. In 2012, after years of lessons, Porchak traveled with her family to Nashville to participate in the Grand Masters Fiddle Championship. rolled the radio dial and hit a certain country station, Aynsley would say, Stop, Porchak had found the program she was longing for and enrolled at ETSU in the fall of 2013. Aynsley Porchak began playing fiddle at the age of 9. They made their SOIMF debut in 2018 and we are thrilled to have this award-winning band return to the Roberts Centre this spring. May 16 1932-July 5 2019Recorded on The Vox (Custom Sho. But it was good ear training, listening to what people were singing and trying to match it on guitar.. 2023 California Bluegrass Association. The Meadors are married. Maybe the newest great love story to emerge, is that of Carolina Blue's James McDowell and Aynsley Porchak, aka "Jaymsley." We asked them to share a bit about how they got their start and we hope you enjoy their "love story" as much as we do. I loved the sound of the program, because it incorporated the On each day four back-to-back classes in bluegrass banjo and four back-to-back classes in old-time banjo will be held, and there is a stellar set of instructors, including Greg Cahill and Jeff Scroggins on the bluegrass side. 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Music is such a beautiful way to bring people together, and if I can make someone forget about whatever sadness they have going on in their life just for a little while through my playing, I feel like my job is done, she says. Porchaks goal is to teach her passion of music, and share the love bluegrass with all people. The Bluegrass, Old Time and Country Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University has announced the hiring of two touring professionals in the bluegrass world to positions on their faculty. New Zealand had one channel in the late 1960s, Trenwith says. After all, we've got some of th. In 2018, Aynsley joined the SPBGMA award-winning band Carolina Blue, and performed with them for four years before becoming one of the founding members of The Tennessee Bluegrass Band in 2021. Receive updates about CBA events and news. Playing via Spotify Playing via YouTube. Patch was also recorded as the title track of a Grammy Award-winning album by another At a banjo pickers convention in New Zealand, Trenwith and her band met American folk singer Mike Seeger. She also played in 2016 on the Grand Ole Opry. Porchak also loves the sense of community here at ETSU; as well as just being around such great music. See Our Schedule. Porchak began playing the fiddle at 9-years-old and developed a passion for bluegrass and competition quickly. When Carolina Blue co-founder Bobby Powell left the group, he took the name Carolina Blue with him and the remaining members formed a new band. Aynsley Porchak, from Woodstock, Ontario, This past summer Aynsley Porchak, the super talented fiddler with Carolina Blue, came up with a great idea for a social media promotion. Madly, crazy in love withBLUEGRASS!! The appointment is for one academic year and is renewable. In January of 2018, Porchak secured a steady job playing fiddle for the up-and-coming group Carolina Blue, based in Brevard and Hendersonville, North Carolina. Left to right: Henry Johns, Danny Stewart, and Haley Stiltner. I still have the program, Trenwith says. But I was set at ease immediately, and I love the campus His image is repeated several times in a Brooks Gym hallway photo mural, near those of the Stanley Brothers, the Carter Family, and Bonnie Lou and Buster, a duo that played live on Johnson Citys WJHL-TV in the 1960s. He is proud to see his cousins, Carl and J.P. Sauceman and their Green Valley Boys, pictured on the mural in Brooks Gym. placing seventh.. minds when she was a toddler in Canada. level. Despite busy weekends touring to places like Branson, Missouri; Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; and Nashvilles famed Station Inn, Porchaks academic work continues. Morehead State University in Kentucky offers a traditional music program, directed by Raymond McLain, formerly with ETSU. Mommy, right there! That happened repeatedly, and her parents eventually thought The thought of their daughter playing the Opry certainly never crossed Aynsleys parents In this aging gymnasium, in the lower reaches of the universitys business building nearby, and in what used to be the library, students converge from all over the world. Very cool. She is a connoisseur of tea. Find an instrument for your child or donate one of yours. 2021, the Meadors left the group to start a family. appreciate the care that ETSU has put into its music programs. . Practice, play, and perform at the Father's Day Festival. Through Bill Monroe, Seeger arranged to have the Hamilton County Bluegrass Band play on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville in 1971. She also keeps busy with sessions work recording for other musicians. She was Blessed to win the Grand Master Fiddler Championship in 2015 in Nashville, Tennessee, and in 2017, she also became the Canadian Grand Master Fiddle Champion, making her the first person to win both competitions. cancellation, she headed to Nashville to surprise one of her own students, who was The year that film came out, 2000, ETSU alumnus Kenny Chesney had already released a Greatest Hits album, on his way to country music superstardom. Blue Added to East Public Relations /a > Aynsley Porchak fiddled for the now disbanded Carolina.. A true brother of the banjo! I love the diversity [of ETSU], we have so many awesome teachers here, its a blessing, said Porchak. Natalie and her music, so when I was 9 years old, I started taking fiddle lessons. Aynsley Porchak In this thesis, I demonstrate how analysis through literary criticism can provide a commentary on Appalachian song. Music program at East Tennessee State University. My jaw dropped, because Id already can with my music, just keep learning because you can always learn and just continue ETSU wasnt the first higher education institution in America to offer a degree in bluegrass and other traditional music. I look forward to passing on my knowledge to students and helping them become just as passionate about learning as I am!. with internationally known, award-winning musicians like Ricky Skaggs and Sam Bush, There have been as many as 42, says program director Dan Boner, himself an accomplished guitarist and fiddle player. The Bluegrass, Old Time and Country Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University has announced the hiring of two touring professionals in the bluegrass world to positions on their faculty. the epicenter of all this music.. Since they were here last, they have enjoyed three IBMA nominations and earlier this month, won four SPBGMA Awards for Entertainers of the Year, Bluegrass Band of the Year (overall), Vocal Group of the Year, and Album of the Year for I Hear Bluegrass Calling Me. Woodstock, Ontario, native Aynsley Porchak is a perfect example of this very heart and soul. Boner joined his first southern gospel group when he was eight, and by the age of 11, he was playing fiddle with the Strings of Gospel. While literary analysis of both sacred and secular song lyrics is an approach that is largely overlooked in this region's traditional music, it nonetheless provides insightful perspective on the art form itself. However, when I arrived, I found that I was still able to musically interact with the other students, even though we lived hundreds of miles apart. ETSU now offers a four-year degree in that field, and it has since 2010. Im so excited and honored to be a part of a program I have admired so much since I became aware of it, and the brilliant graduates that have come through it, to join the ranks of successful professionals in the roots music world, not to mention the world class faculty. Contact Us. With a new album already completed for Billy Blue Records, and a solid year of dates booked, There's a brand new bluegrass band recently formed in east Tennessee that is sure to please anyone who enjoys solid, traditional bluegrass music. Congratulations to James Mcdowell and Aynsley Porchak on getting engaged yesterday. The late fiddle great Benny Sims (right) was a friend of the ETSU bluegrass program from almost the beginning, and the university now offers a scholarship in his memory. Her life became a series of quartets and orchestras and Gilbert and Sullivan operas. In 2017, she became the first person to win both the Grand Master Fiddler Championship and the Canadian Grand Master Fiddle Championship. Online access to music lessons with our favorite musicians. Takes the music extremely traditional Bluegrass . She graduated in 2017 with an additional bachelors degree in English, and completed her masters degree in Appalachian Studies in 2020. There are similar themeslove, acceptance, and rejection.. 3739 Balboa St. #5090San Francisco, CA 94121-2605(844) BLU-GRASS(844-258-4727), CBA EventsCalendarFeature ArchiveBluegrass Breakdown. 16 years old, I went to Weiser, Idaho, for the National Old Time Fiddlers Contest, Aynsley is also an experienced contest fiddler. All three are alumni of ETSUs Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies Program. His great uncle, Larry Boner, was a guitar-strumming preacher. Click here if youre interested in buying an ad. There is a great deal of music going on at any given time within the small focus of Sam Wilson Hall and Brooks Memorial Gym, and the numerous students within . This is Aynsleys second year teaching at the Monroe Mandolin Camp, and she is excited to share her love of old-school bluegrass fiddling with her students! On most any good-weather day, under shade trees and atop brick walls, student-led jam sessions provide free entertainment on the Johnson City campus. jazz program, and (there were) lots of classical programs, but nothing like bluegrass Aynsley spends her time off the road as a private fiddle instructor, session musician, and author. This fund has been established to assist the Hensley family of Flag Pond, Tennessee in their husband's and father's medical bills. TENNESSEE BLUEGRASS BAND From east Tennessee. Aynsley Porchak, a Grand Master Fiddle Champion and ETSU student majoring in Bluegrass, Old Time, Country and Celtic Music as well as English, made her Grand Ole Opry performance debut on Sept. 3, 2016. This is an historic first, making her. Click on one photo to see large photos in sequence. Nearby a bass fiddle vibrates the floor. Aynsley spends her time off the road as a private fiddle instructor, session musician, and author. We live in capitalism. the music. But bluegrass courses and private instruction quickly changed that. Aynsley is also an experienced contest fiddler. Dan Eubanks, bassist with Special Consensus, and Aynsley Porchak, fiddler with Carolina Blue, will both join the team as adjust professors starting with the Spring 2021 semester. Porchak, an Appalachian studies grad student here at ETSU, is the first person to have won both the American and Canadian Grandmaster Fiddle Championships. 24 / 7 Professional Support Just to even go to the Opry has been a dream schooling to help with my bluegrass major, as well. it was probably the fiddle which attracted her to the music. that said, WHAT?!?!? I really A devoted student of Kenny Baker, Porchak set out to record and post a video of her, We've enthused several times about Aynsley Porchak, the talented young fiddler with Carolina Blue. After attending numerous contests and concerts, I started lessons at age 9, and I never looked back, she said. Id been looking for. After graduation she would like to use her degrees to write and further scholarship in the field of American traditional music. Dan Eubanks, bassist with Special Consensus, and Aynsley Porchak, fiddler with Carolina Blue, will both join the team as adjust professors starting with the Spring 2021 semester. ETSU musicians meet the late Bill Monroe, backstage (above) at the Paramount Center for the Performing Arts in Bristol, Tennessee, in September of 1995. We've helped hundreds of small business create a successful Web presence. To me, that experience really speaks to one of the things that I find most fascinating about the nature of music, " it is an inclusive way of communicating thoughts and culture across the boundaries of regions, and even nations, she says. I went to church every Sunday morning, Sunday night, and Wednesday night, and I played guitar in church., Boner says there was no order of worship in his great uncles tiny church. My Profile Thanks to Ken Perlman for the news that the American Banjo Camp (of which he and Peter Langston are co-directors) will take place online by Zoom on 11 and 12 September 2021. "We met for the first time when I auditioned for Carolina Blue in December two years ago. Porchak, who has bachelors degrees in both Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Country Music Studies and English from ETSU, plus a masters in Appalachian Studies, feels humbled to join the faculty at her alma mater. Aynsley is also an experienced contest fiddler. I grew up hearing loud preaching and attending homecomings and Saturday night singings, Boner says. This is a labor of love,but every dollar = a cup of coffee whileI work at keeping this resource up to date.Thanks for whatever you send my way! Along the way, a minor was added in 2005. L-R: Jack Tottle, Raymond McLain, and Dan Boner. And from an impromptu jam session comes the high harmony of twin fiddles. She was introduced to bluegrass in her early teens, and quickly fell in love with the music. Two years later, she won the Canadian Grand Masters Fiddling Championship. Aynsley is also an experienced contest fiddler. She is a connoisseur of tea. Aynsley has been my twin-fiddle buddy going back to when she first started at ETSU. They are here to take part in an academic program like no other: Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Country Music Studies. Her technical prowess is second to none. Aynsley Porchak readily admits to being a quirky individual. She confesses to having For this video performance Soon the band was invited to perform on television. Take all the opportunities given to hone your craft and really enjoy the opportunities that music has given, said Porchak when asked what advice she has for ETSUs aspiring musicians. I texted Daniel right afterward with a picture of me holding the plaque, saying, She also received the 2018 IBMA Momentum Instrumentalist of the Year award. It could take me a while, I said, before I knew - it could be days, could be weekscould be monthscould be years! By a miracle, that didnt scare James off, and it didnt take years after allin August, I drove to Galax to surprise him and tell him that I wanted to take him up on his offer to date. . ETSU student Aynsley Porchak (right) is the only person ever to win both the American and Canadian Grand Masters Fiddle Championships. One of those is Aynsley Porchak. to grow, give back, and be the best I can. East Tennessee State University All Rights Reserved. While touring, I write in the RV, she tells me. Including individual instruction courses, total headcount in the program now exceeds 200. In memory of NC banjo player Hoyt Herbert who passed on this day in 2019. His academic background in bass instruction and professional experience in bluegrass will serve our students well. The three musicians who have directed the Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Country Music Studies Program at ETSU. Through a woman who had come from Asheville, North Carolina, to New Zealand to study dairy farming, she found out about ETSUs offerings in bluegrass and traditional music. In order to further hone her craft, Aynsley enrolled in East Tennessee State Universitys Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies degree program in 2013. Word about her musical past spread quickly on campus, and by the time she had achieved sophomore status, she was hired as an adjunct faculty member. Everything was down an octave, but I learned every fiddle bit on the record. The Meadors are married. I love the fact that She plays in the ETSU Then, finally, late at night, I go back to my bunk and write until I fall asleep.. Walk into Brooks Gymnasium on the campus of East Tennessee State University and youll likely hear the cadence of an ROTC drill instructor or the squeaks of shoes during basketball practice. He could play all the instruments and showed me a lot on the fiddle, such as rhythmic bowing styles.. Happy Valentine's Day! He'd been a fool, but he'd had to forgive himself for worse. Roy Andrade, best known for his work with the string band Reeltime Travelers, specializes in old-time music. didnt listen to country music, and her mom thought it unusual that every time she ! It was on Facebook before I even knew it. I loved I get a great deal of satisfaction when I see the light go on in students eyes, when they first understand something and accomplish a tune that they didnt think they could play before.. In 2018, Porchak won the International Bluegrass Music Associations Momentum Instrumentalist of the Year award, for up-and-coming artists. Thank you. The Tennessee Bluegrass Band is shining a light on the importance of traditional bluegrass. She frequently makes obscure literary references, and even enjoys literary criticism. It gives us a venue to showcase our students to the public. Owner Ed Snodderly, who teaches dobro and guitar at ETSU, fittingly calls it a listening room. Website design and development by Camellia Digital Agency. Logout. It brings ETSU great pride to congratulate such an accomplished student. 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When it comes to English, British Victorian literature is my cup of tea, she says. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), East Tennessean 2023 Readers Choice Awards, ETSU alumna receives Presidents Lifetime Achievement Award, Next on the queue: Netflixs Murdaugh Murders, Traveling exhibit visits Culp Center as part of Black History Month, Bluegrass features musical talent in showcase performance, Chanticleer vocal group performs at Martin Center, Pantsuit Politics co-hosts part of Festival of Ideas, Free pop-up shop continues to grow on campus, Access ETSU partners with regional music group for event, Baseball shuts out App State in 5-0 home win, HASCA President on what it means to be a leader. seafood place and this man came up to our table, saying, Excuse me, I hope you Maybe the newest great love story to emerge, is that of Carolina Blue's James McDowell and Aynsley Porchak, aka "Jaymsley." Lots of cool memories, and good prospects for the future. IBMA fiddle player of the year, Aynsley Porchak, gets inducted into the Daughters of Bluegrass at Christmas in the Smokies, 2019. She gave up her job as a teacher to go on the road, introducing bluegrass music to New Zealand. Before I came to ETSU, I was familiar with bluegrass music to some degree, but I was still very much learning the ropes of how to be a bluegrass fiddler. Dan Eubanks, bassist with Special Consensus, and Aynsley Porchak. In fact, the fiddle player did not even intend to compete in the 2017 Canadian Grand Masters Fiddle Championship due to time constraints. Aynsley Porchak. She speaks highly of the teachers and the program. At the end of every semester, ETSU bands perform at a Johnson City institution, The Down Home, which opened in 1976. She came to East Tennessee State University to study in their Bluegrass, Old-Time and Country music program. She also played in 2016 on the Grand Ole Opry. 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