A very rough working version of my setting of Rumi's beautiful poem, The Waterwheel.  Just me and the banjo, late in the night.
My mother grew up at Finch's Mill, in the Rock Ridge community near Wilson, NC.  The old millpond and dam was still there when I would visit, but it was clearly abandoned, a relic of the past, quaint but irrelevant.  It always puzzled me that such a beautiful technology had been so quickly and completely set aside, and the old millpond seemed to have something to tell me -- a quiet and important secret it wanted to pass along.

TheWaterwheel

I taped these two songs from WTNC-AM, Thomasville, NC, back in the 80s.  I'm proud to share them because I haven't found them anywhere else.

Taped from WTNC

Walking with my Savior

The Other Side of Jordan

TN State Museum - Ref. disk 1

Shiloh Bend

There'll Be No Broken Hearts for Me

Movin Out

Tune Ideas

Last Day at Ellendale's

Originals: Rockwood, Movin' Out, Shiloh Bend, Forrester Boys, Mortal Coil Shuffle, 
Adapted from Leadbelly: Whoa Back Buck
Canadian tune from Truman Smythe: Carrollton County Hornpipe

Miscellaneous tunes

Original fiddle tunes by Mark Wingate, recorded ~2009
Mark Wingate, fiddle
Sally Wingate, banjo
Holly Tashian, bass
Barry Tashian, guitar

Recorded on a single mike by Brian Siskind
copyright Mark Wingate / Pedestrian Publishing

Scooter Wheel

Duquaine Waltz

Weasel Chase

Mary Anna's Waltz

John Calhoun

Good Dog

Lonesome Prospect

scratch versions of original banjo tunes, plus miscellaneous traditional and adapted songs with banjo accompaniment

Mark Wingate's Album

Island

Fort Granger March

Clifftop Camp Meeting

Allison Creek is a short creek that runs under the bridge at the bottom of Allison Road in Brevard, NC.

Tune ideas

Allison Creek

Mark Wingate

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