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About Me

Hi! My name is Ricky Selman. If you dont know already, I am a fiddle player. I love listening and playing music. I started playing the Cello when I was four through the Suzuki method and moved on to playing Texas fiddle when I was eight.I have been playing In fiddle contest ever since I started playing, and have won many awards. Some of my favorite Accomplishments is, Winning 8th place at the 2007 Fiddlers Frolic's Contest in the GONE TO TEXAS Division held in Hallettsville Texas, Placing 16th In the Young Adult division at the National old time Fiddlers contest in 2007,Placing First in the M. N. State contest Jr. division held in Cotton MN. in 2004, Placing Second in the First Annual Fiddling on the Falls Fiddle contest in Idaho Falls ID in 2007, Winning the Adult division at the North Cascades Fiddle Pull in Wynthrip, WA in 2006. Graduating from Denver School of the Arts High School Majoring in Instrumental music .And being fortunate enough to study with some great fiddle players like, Chris Daring,Katie Glassman, Dick Barrett,Lisa Barrett, Jimmy Don Bates, Joey Mckenzie, Wes Wes Morland,Randy Elmore,Texas Shorty Chancellor.Rex Gillentine And Terry Morris Terry Morris and Dolly Parton
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My Interests

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Music:

Iv listened Intensively to a lot of music so I cant list every one ! Texas Style fiddle , Old Time ,Gypsy Swing ,Polka ,Ragtime, classical ,Berouque , Romantic ,Blues , HipHop ,Swing ,R&B ,Country ,Western Swing ,Rock ,Alternative ,Industrial ,Metal ,Punk ,Ska ,Techno ,Acid Jazz,Miami Bass ,House ,Hard House ,Deep House ,Hard Core ,D&B ,Detroit Electro ,Disco ,Dance Hall ,Raggae ,Funk . But Mostly I would say Just plain old Good music!

Movies:

These are just some that come to mind. Happy Gilmore ,Billy Madison ,Water boy ,Ace Ventura pet detective ,Meet the Parents , Star Wars ,The Matrix ,Pulp Fiction,Be Cool ,Plesentville ,Forest Gump ,Death proof ,Edward Scissor hands ,Game of death,Searching For Bobby Fischer ,Music of the hart ,THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY, A fist full of Dollers, Dirty Harry.

Television:

Deal or no Deal,Biography channel,History Channel, so you think you can dance .

Books:

Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Celestine prophecy's,Inner Game of music

Heroes:

First off My mom & Dad , Guessepi Spadafora ,Bruce Lee,Dr. Suzuki,Kurt Cobain , The Beatles, Eck Robertson ,Major Franklin ,Terry Morris , Orvil Burnes ,Benny & Jerry Thommison ,Ervin Normon & Vernon Soloman ,Howdy Forrester ,Dick & Lisa Barrett ,Mark O'conner ,Texas Shorty Chancellor ,Bob Wills ,Johnny Gimble ,Stephan Grapelli ,Stuff Smith ,Eddie South,Sven Assmussen ,Django Rheinhardt ,Joe Venuti / Eddie Lang,Itzhak Pearlman,Omega Burdon , And the tape Recorder!

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Posted by Ricky on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 07:44:00 PST