"unadulterated FUN" - Elen Pass Brandt
"Pedersen shines" - E.C. Riley Jr.
"Sucked right in, I was." - Brent Harris
"I could actually relate to these people." - Tommy McCreesh
"thoroughly entertaining" - Kate Montgomery
430 pgs
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2009 readings
April 18
Borders
Saratoga Springs
April 25
Book Passage
Corte Madera
April 26
Diesel
Oakland
audio
in progress
release tba
The novel is a chance to hang out in the mind of the man who is a champion fiddler and instrument maker, to chill in the heat of an intensely musical life. Scroll and curl, of course, refer to the aspects of a violin. Scroll and curl are plot dimensions also, and relate to the life style of the characters presented.
The Plot
An oldtime bluegrass mystery. When the old time string band "Sweet Evening Breeze" leaves Saratoga Springs, New York on their two week tour of the east coast, fiddler Dan Munroe thinks that his only headache will be controlling his band-mates tendencies for excess. That is until he buys a unique fiddle at a sidewalk sale in New York and hears the story of the previous owner’s entanglement with the underworld of the 1930's. After he gets this special fiddle appraised by a reclusive dealer in Pennsylvania, dangerous and mysterious forces curl and swirl through his life suddenly.
The Author
As the grandson of a noted Heldeberg Mountain fiddler, and a master luthier (stringed instrument repairman), John Pedersen portrays the touring string band life, based on hard-won first-hand knowledge, about the shifting nature of relationships and the dynamics of people on the road, whose main connection to each other is the music. Also, running a retail music store, doing repairs, and buying and selling rare instruments have given him insight into the eclectic and occasionally bizarre world of instrument buyers and collector motivations. The patrons of the store, run by John and his wife, range from limos full of rock stars to the lowliest of street people, and everyone in between. As a musician, John has won many fiddle contests, playing in the “old time” style, as well as the California State Old Time Banjo championships in 2007.
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