DEKALB JUNCTION -- Don Woodcock, Annie Davey, and Jeremy Rusu, a three-piece combo called A Reel Tradition, will perform for free at the Meetinghouse Museum, 696 E. Dekalb Road at 7 p.m. on July 27.

Don Woodcock is widely recognized as having a great repertory of fiddle tunes is a life-long resident of the town of DeKalb.  

He has been playing music in public since he was 10 years old.

At 14 he began playing fiddle and was soon playing at dances with country bands.  

Recent years have seen him playing piano with a Dixieland group, fiddle with a bluegrass band, two regular Sunday church services at two churches on both the piano and fiddle and fiddle with many other musicians and groups.

With no lessons ever, completely self-taught he has been a three-time New York State Fiddle Champion, inducted in North American Fiddlers Hall of Fame in 1987 and received the TAUNY Heritage Award in 1997.

Whether it’s on jazz piano, drums with a big band, country lead guitar, bluegrass mandolin, accordion or bagpipes, Jeremy Rusu is right at home on a stage as long as he’s making music.

Blind since birth Jeremy’s entire life has revolved around music.  

Jeremy is a favorite accompanist for prominent fiddlers in Canada playing often with Patti Kusturok and Calvin Vollrath.  

He is also busy working as a studio musician and recording engineer.

Jeremy’s wife, Annie Davey, is a librarian and fiddler originally from Northern New York and President of the North Country Fiddlers, which was founded by her father, Carl Davey.

Annie grew up surrounded by fiddle music and studied classical violin from a young age.  

She enjoys musical adventures of all kinds, but most of all playing on the banks of the St. Lawrence River with Jeremy.

Annie and Jeremy recently released their pandemic project, an album of lullabies titled “Songs About Rainbows” which is available wherever you stream music.