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.
Transcriptions/Analyses
- from Enthralled
- from Hymns and Hers
- from Jigzup
- from A Million Stars
- from Smithers
- from Whirled
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
- With the Stewed Tomatoes
- With Dan Gibson
- With the Harbord Trio
- With Eye Music
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
- 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
Tunes by Oliver Schroer (performed by other musicians)
- My own covers
- Jaron Freeman Fox
- Maniac Almanac : Slow Möbius
- Features Off to Japan, The Birds Will Sing Again
- Maniac Almanac : Slow Möbius
- Scott White-Noise
- EmilynStam
- 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
- Can’t Resist the Twist
- 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
- Vinta Plays Olitunes
- Adrianna Ciccone and Anne Lindsay- Stewed Tomatoes
- Quin With One N
- TheMusicianGirl1
- Cosgrove & Banks
- Emma Smith & Diane McCullough
- 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
- Covering Oli (piano compositions based on the melodies of Oliver Schroer)
- Jenna Moynihan
- 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
This is a work-in-progress – if there's something that should be here but isn't yet, please let me know! Thanks to Clemens Wirth, who contributed links.
Last updated: Dec 20, 2023.