Hi folks - quick background to this.

Back in 2014, our member Barry Nelson got a number of us eager beginners to take part in a streamed-live-event on http://www.streetjelly.com - the event was called "Streetjelly Fiddlefest".   Over the following years, we regularly arranged a repeat event, round about late October to November, and for the last couple of years the arrangements were taken over by both myself and Mandy (@damfino).   This is now the fifth such event coming up.

Fall 2018 has been real busy for me, and I was unable to arrange anything timely, however, that's no reason not to do it, and the best I can come up with is sometime January 2019.   I have picked Sat 26th Jan 2019 as the day of the event.   The date is not up for negotiation (sorry!) we spent DAYS a couple of years back trying to accommodate the various "oh, can you make it a day later / next week" and so on - sorry - just the way it goes!!!!   I did make one VERY SPECIAL allowance - it would have been scheduled earlier - but - I didn't want it to interfere with the planned visit to FiddlerShop a week earlier (around the 19th ??? I think), and although it's out of the question for me, I know a number of our active members are going to be there. 

I'm not going to either bore folks here, or spend an hour describing it - if you are interested in this, but new to idea - use the forum search to find all posts and threads relating both to StreetJelly and FiddleFest.  There are detailed descriptions of (a) how to use StreetJelly and (b) the "protocol" or "etiquette" we use to schedule multi-player events on SJ, just so that different performers don't accidentally overlap their shows.

For this event, Fiddlefest 5, if you are taking part, PLEASE - you MUST entitle your show "Fiddlefest 5, xx mins" -    normally, folks will go for a 30 minute show ( xx = 30 ) - but shorter is perfectly acceptable if that's all you are happy with (hence the planned time, so others can schedule around you)

Here's the banner,

And here's my scheduled show on SJ  - (I have obliterated the time to save confusion - I'm in the UK and I see the time in GMT ( my local timezone ) - you'll have to look on the SJ site to see when that is in YOUR local timezone (clever little Streetjelly!) if you're non-UK) - so that's the plan - schedule before, after, or whenever - any time within a sort of 24 hour span - it's always nice to get consecutive players though so there are no gaps in the overall event.....

[ The first (hmm, maybe it was the second....) ran for 9 consecutive hours, let's see what we can do !  Yayyyyyy ]

I'm actually still a little bit wary of putting effort into this - the uptake on the earlier "Amateur Hour" failed miserably - but we'll have a shot at it anyway !

Oh - a final word for newcomers - the event is primarily supported by Fiddlerman Forum Members - but it is NOT exclusive to the FM forum - the event as originally started by Barry was called Streetjelly Fiddlefest (because we brought in players from streetjelly, who aren't forum members - it's open for any bowed string player, that's the point), but for some reason the event name kind of morphed into "Fiddlerman Fiddlefest" for a couple of years - it's all the same event - and I've taken it back to its intended name !   

Any questions - just ask - but - please - do the forum search first !!!!