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Steve Schmeck, fiddle
~ Sharon Vierk, fiddle Sue Robishaw, guitar, vocals ~ Tom Caron, bass Traditional Music, Lively and Lovely! Fiddle tunes old and new, and songs from near and far |
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Whether performing or accompanying a dinner or a party, Wild Cherry Wine will have you dancing in your chair, swaying dreamily along, or smiling in delight. The music is pure traditional acoustic pleasure with fiddles in harmony or unison, guitar picking and strumming, upright bass with that magical backbone rhythm, and Sue's cheery vocals on songs. Sometimes three, sometimes four, but whatever the number it's a fun time. |
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I don't remember when we first met Sharon Vierk as it seems like we've been
comfortably playing together for a long time. Our paths first crossed at the Falling Rock Cafe in Munising where
we converged for many years with other musicians most Wednesday nights for an old time open
jam. Though we live about 75 miles apart, we enjoy playing together so we get
together when we can. We
share country homestead lifestyles as well as a love for a wide variety of
traditional music. And since we also have in common the making of good homemade
wild cherry wine, we had a ready made name! Then the ever adaptable and so
talented Tom Caron joined us on his trademark fancy painted bass to our, and the
audience's, delight. 
Annually
'Wild
Cherry Wine' enjoys stage time at the Aura Jamboree in July as well as adding
old-time music for the fun and always interesting Trenary Fur & Feather events. We've
provided background
dinner music for diners, and volunteered for non-profit fundraisers; roved the
wonderful historic townsite of Fayette (with appropriate historic tunes, of
course), and played with other musicians around and about. It's all a good time
and we're always open to new adventures.
So
check our schedule and come join us here or there for some good old time traditional
(and some not so old) music. Meantime, check out the Audio page for some tunes from "Wild Cherry
Wine".
Yesterday
we had a wonderful time playing with our friends Tom Caron and Sharon
Vierk at the U.P. Steam & Gas annual "Christmas in the Village" in
Escanaba. It was a chilly, snowy but storm-free evening, and a lot of
people of all ages came out to wander around this old-time village in
the corner of the U.P. State Fair grounds, checking out the many small
shops and displays, riding the festively lighted wagon behind an
appropriate nice old tractor. Steve and I were involved back in the late
80's when the "village" was a few rough built shops and a great old
steam engine driven saw mill, a shingle mill, a large impressive steam
tractor, blacksmith shop, and enthusiastic "old timers" (who mostly
weren't all that old!). During their annual Labor Day event, and a few
other times, folks would bring their old engines and tractors to display
(which they still do). We built a woodworking shop, nailing up rough
hemlock boards, hauled fresh fro
m the pile fresh from the working
sawmill. The design included an attic where we could stay overnight. It
was a fun time, making hand carved spoons, using the treadle lathe,
talking to folks. But life was very full and we bowed out after some
years, other folks taking over and using the shop. 
