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| Carthy Sisco Lee Stripling Jim Ketterman Jim Evans Glenn Berry Harry Johnson Jeff Anderson Marilyn Scott Gil Kiesecker Floyd Engstrom Stuart Williams Vivian Williams Author: Brid NowlanPhotographer: Doug PlummerAbout the projectExhibit ScheduleWA State Old Time Fiddlers Association Home PageArchivesHome
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Jeff’s
earliest memories are of falling asleep to the Norwegian-American fiddle music of his
father, Palmer Anderson, and his grandfather, Carl Melcher, in Waterville in the early
1950s. He began to learn the fiddle only after his grandfather had died. Fortunately, the
family had a tape recording that Jeff listened to over and over to learn each note. At
first he learned to play with just two fingers. When he had worn the skin off his second
finger sliding into notes, he went back and learned to play all his tunes with four
fingers. Soon he was traveling the state, with his mother Ruby on guitar, playing at shows and events. Their band—‘The Hillbilly Fiddlers’—was chosen to play at the 1974 World’s Fair in Spokane. Jeff was so nervous that he wasn’t sure he could play. But "I found a knot-hole on the floor where I was standing and I stood there and looked at that and looked up at the people when I got done." Jeff inherited his strong sense of style and rich tones from his father and grandfather. He plays regularly at dances and shows with his partner Jane Johnson and the group Nordic Exposure. His first CD, ‘Fiddling in the Family Tradition,’ is available from Voyager Records; a second is in production.
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