Oliver Schroer – Resources

A collection of resources related to Canadian fiddle player Oliver Schroer (1956–2008), mostly compiled while I was writing my Master's thesis, Temporal Asymmetries in the Fiddle Music of Oliver Schroer.

• Official Website
• Wikipedia Article

Transcriptions/Analyses

• from Enthralled
  • Enthralled
• from Hymns and Hers
  • Chel's Bells
• from Jigzup
  • Victory of Love
  • Toby's Reel / The Job
  • Horseshoes and Rainbows
  • The Hub of the Wheel
  • Roro
  • Bright Eyes
• from A Million Stars
  • Before Dreaming
• from Smithers
  • Tightrope in Space
• from Whirled
  • The Humours of Aristotle

Albums

• Celtica (as playlist)
• Celtic Christmas
• Celtic Devotion (as playlist)
• Emerald Isle
• Celtic Escape
• Hymns and Hers
• Camino
• Stuck On A Cold Steel Pole (features Beneath The Ice, They Heard Bells)
• With Nuala Kennedy
  • Enthralled
• With the Stewed Tomatoes
  • Freedom Row
• With Dan Gibson
  • Celtic Serenity - Dan Gibson & Oliver Schroer
  • Seaside Retreat - Dan Gibson & Oliver Schroer
  • Lakeside Retreat - Dan Gibson & Oliver Schroer
  • A Celtic Christmas Story - Dan Gibson & Oliver Schroer
• With the Harbord Trio
  • Circle of Stone
• With Eye Music
  • Montreux 1988

Videos of Oliver Schroer

• On fiddlereliz youtube channel
  • A Song for All Seasons
  • A Song for All Seasons
  • from Oliver’s Last Concert on his Tour of This Planet
    • Flowers
    • A Thousand Thank-Yous
    • The Lord’s Prayer
    • Nothing but Space and Clocks
    • The View from Here
    • Field of Stars
    • Grace
• Oliver Schroer & The Stewed Tomatoes - Square dance in Soweto
• Oliver Schroer & The Stewed Tomatoes - The Yodeller from Guadalajara
• Oliver Schroer & The Stewed Tomatoes - Tode Ti
• Oliver Schroer & The Stewed Tomatoes - Stewed Tomatoes
• Silence at the Heart of Things
• Nuala Kennedy - Books in my Library - Silence at the Heart of Things
• https://youtu.be/NzY8EPNtp7s
• Documentary on Oliver Schroer mid 90’s
• James Keelaghan & Oliver Schroer
• Ariele - Oliver Schroer and the Stewed Tomatoes
• Downstairs, Upstairs
• The Lord’s Prayer - Oliver Schroer (“A special, but short, tribute to the man.”)
• 9 Miles High by Oliver Schroer and the Twisted String
• A Million Stars
• Life on the River
• The Lord’s Prayer
• Restless Urban Primitive
• Oliver Schroer talks to the audience
• Oliver Schroer interviews Sarah Hall - 1, 2, 3, 4

Tracks Featuring Oliver Schroer

• The Cake Parade
• Midnight March
• Pipes & Fiddle Set
• The Lairds O’ The Bush
• The Battle of the Nile
• The Cobourg Waltz
• Sad Cello Solo for Owen
• Snowblower Breakdown
• Hellbent for Miami/Mahon’s New Truck
• Miramichi Waltz

Tunes by Oliver Schroer (performed by other musicians)

• My own covers
  • Bright Eyes
  • The Hub of the Wheel
  • The Victory of Love
  • Rainbow Socks (Swedish Seven)
  • A Song for All Seasons
• Jaron Freeman Fox
  • Maniac Almanac : Slow Möbius
    • Features Off to Japan, The Birds Will Sing Again
• Scott White-Noise
  • Seasons Pass
  • A Prayer For All Seasons
  • Work Song (slower tempo)
  • Tsigido (slower tempo)
  • Leslie-Jean's Waltz
  • Pig in a Polka Bar
  • Hippos
• EmilynStam
  • Rainbow Socks (Swedish7)
  • Beneath the Ice They Heard Bells
  • Suspenders of Hope
  • Blue Reel
• Twisted String
  • Can’t Resist the Twist
    • Features Go Crazy, Little Green Mark, Happy Goodbyes, Boogie Twist, Cruisin’, Paper Scissors Rock, Solar, 9 Miles High, A Sense of Place, Coming to Come, Driving Song, A Song For All Seasons (The Prayerful Hymn), Beneath the Ice, They Heard Bells
  • The Night the Chicken Got Fried
• Vinta
  • Vinta Plays Olitunes
    • Features Happy Goodbyes, Dance for a New Beginning, Walking in Snow, Pig in a Polka Bar, Old Soul, Driftwood Canyon Waltz, The Smile on Your Face, Teresa on the Beach
• Adrianna Ciccone and Anne Lindsay- Stewed Tomatoes
• Quin With One N
  • Embark
    • Features Millies Waltz, Elddif
  • Elddif
• TheMusicianGirl1
  • The Nutwist
• Cosgrove & Banks
  • Horseshoes & Rainbows / Ansgar’s Jig / December 16th
• Emma Smith & Diane McCullough
  • Laughing in her Sleep
• Olitunes
  • The Victory of Love
  • Suspenders of Hope
  • Olitunes
  • Olitunes
  • Olitunes workshops on kenb.ca (with a link to download learning tracks for The Swedish Seven)
• Casey Sokol
  • Covering Oli (piano compositions based on the melodies of Oliver Schroer)
    • Features Nine Miles High, The Yodeler of Guadalajara, Marcie’s Dzygh, Natasha’s Waltz, Different Shoes, Whirled, Caitlin’s Smile
• Jenna Moynihan
  • Horseshoes and Rainbows
• Many videos on chelseasleep's YouTube channel
  • Features Oliver Schroer’s tunes performed by Bad to the Bow, Twisted String, as well as random acts of violins
• David Greenberg
  • Gloomy and Enthralled (features Enthralled)

Sheet Music

• Several handwritten tunes can be found at the end of the preview of Covering Oli on Casey Sokol's website.

Scholarly Writing

• Touring as Social Practice: Transnational Festivals, Personalized Networks, and New Folk Music Sensibilities (Doctoral thesis by Andrew Hillhouse, examining the “career trajectories of three interrelated musicians who have worked in folk music:” Oliver Schroer, Nuala Kennedy, and Filippo Gambetta)
• Random acts of violins: Oliver Schroer and two British Columbia fiddle communities, article by Andrew Hillhouse
• Temporal Asymmetries in the Fiddle Music of Oliver Schroer, Master's thesis by Jacob deGroot-Maggetti