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    <title>Chronicles of a Late Blooming Child Prodigy</title>
    <link>http://zen_fiddler.blogspot.com</link>
    <description>The ongoing acoustic adventures of a Bluegrass and Celtic student.  Audioblog entries attest to my infatuation with anything plucked, strummed, or bowed.</description>
    <copyright>All content recorded by Glenn Tolle.  </copyright>
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    <itunes:author>Glenn Tolle</itunes:author>
    <itunes:summary>Bluegrass and Celtic meanderings on guitar, banjo, mandolin, and fiddle.  http://zen_fiddler.blogspot.com</itunes:summary>
    <itunes:subtitle>Zen Fiddler's acoustic audioblog! Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin, Fiddle</itunes:subtitle>
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      <itunes:name>Glenn Tolle</itunes:name>
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      <title>Clap Dance and 69th Street Polkas</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Session-friendly renditions of the Lifescapes Celtic Fiddle CD tunes. The Clap Dance is also known as The Rattlin' Bog and the 69th Street Polka is also known as the Galway Belle or Tom McVicar's.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:11:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Session-friendly renditions of the Lifescapes Celtic Fiddle CD tunes. The Clap Dance is also known as The Rattlin' Bog and the 69th Street Polka is also known as the Galway Belle or Tom McVicar's.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Wise Maid Reel, tenor banjo, caffeinated</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The fast version of this popular reel. a real workout for the pinky on the tenor banjo.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:35:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[The fast version of this popular reel. a real workout for the pinky on the tenor banjo.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Out on the Ocean (Jig)</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Fiddle, Key of G. Nice nautical tune that lends itself well to life in Monterey, California. :)]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:14:25 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Fiddle, Key of G. Nice nautical tune that lends itself well to life in Monterey, California. :)]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Julia Delany / Wise Maid</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Two great reels that go together like peas and carrots. Slainte did a great version of this (Anthea and Lawson's old group from Tacoma).]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2006 12:00:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Two great reels that go together like peas and carrots. Slainte did a great version of this (Anthea and Lawson's old group from Tacoma).]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Flowers of Edinburg</title>
      <description><![CDATA[This one is easy to confuse with "Out on the Ocean." The starting notes get crossed up if you're not paying attention!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2006 11:58:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[This one is easy to confuse with "Out on the Ocean." The starting notes get crossed up if you're not paying attention!]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Ashokan Farewell</title>
      <description><![CDATA[I learned this tune early one morning in Iraq. There's something about being on the other side of the world in a war zone that gives a Civil War documentary soundtrack special meaning.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 16:27:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[I learned this tune early one morning in Iraq. There's something about being on the other side of the world in a war zone that gives a Civil War documentary soundtrack special meaning.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <description><![CDATA[During my two-week break from Iraq in the summer of '04, I dusted off my instruments in the study, including my Ibanez 5-string blonde maple banjo. I've dub'd it "Charlene Darling," after one of the characters on the Andy Griffith "Mountain Wedding" episode. (It's Ernest T.'s companion.)]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 16:24:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Gravel Walk (12 String Ovation)</title>
      <description><![CDATA[I've not straightened out Gravel Walk on the fiddle yet, but for some odd reason, it came pretty easily on my Ovation 12-string guitar. I sometimes retune it to DADGAD and call it my Pseudo-Bouzouki. :)]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 16:21:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[I've not straightened out Gravel Walk on the fiddle yet, but for some odd reason, it came pretty easily on my Ovation 12-string guitar. I sometimes retune it to DADGAD and call it my Pseudo-Bouzouki. :)]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Drowsy Maggie in Waikiki</title>
      <description><![CDATA[While in Waikiki in November 2003, I recorded the old Irish standard, "Drowsy Maggie" on my Martin Backpacker Mandolin.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 16:19:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[While in Waikiki in November 2003, I recorded the old Irish standard, "Drowsy Maggie" on my Martin Backpacker Mandolin.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Sailor's Hornpipe in Monterey</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Another hornpipe from my audioblog collection. Funny how we all got exposed to these tunes by watching cartoons.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 15:00:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Another hornpipe from my audioblog collection. Funny how we all got exposed to these tunes by watching cartoons.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>The Galway Hornpipe</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Florie Brown performed this on "Best of Irish Fiddle." It's a handy addition to one's bag of hornpipe tricks.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 14:59:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Florie Brown performed this on "Best of Irish Fiddle." It's a handy addition to one's bag of hornpipe tricks.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <description><![CDATA[Meet Ernest T., my new Tenor Banjo.  Sort of a tradition with me to test-fire a new instrument with "Wind that Shakes the Barley."]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:50:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Meet Ernest T., my new Tenor Banjo.  Sort of a tradition with me to test-fire a new instrument with "Wind that Shakes the Barley."]]></itunes:summary>
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      <description><![CDATA[My initial take, using my Ovation 12 string tuned in open G.  I'm going to have fun with this little jig.  :)]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:04:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[My initial take, using my Ovation 12 string tuned in open G.  I'm going to have fun with this little jig.  :)]]></itunes:summary>
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      <description><![CDATA[My Ovation 12 string tuned to open G and subjected to the whims of a glass slide and hybrid picking (flatpick and fingers).]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:08:01 GMT</pubDate>
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