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JUNE SPECIALS
1. Free this month: Learn “Vine Street Drag” and the story behind it. This features a 1930 recording by fiddler Howard Armstrong and includes both the basic tune and Armstrong’s version. Free in honor of Juneteenth, the African-American holiday celebrating the day (June 19.1865) when Union soldiers enforced the end of slavery. For some years, fiddle-online has displayed a special Juneteenth home page on that day of the month. This is also a tiny gesture towards balancing current Republican efforts to return to the Jim Crow era. For 150 years, white southerners have opposed any social support for Black voting or roads or schools by labeling it “socialism” (see Heather Cox Richardson’s historical discussion of this.)
