Welcome to JimWoodMusic.net. Our website is a work in progress; so, visit often to see what is new. Also, please contact us with your events and such. We are very community oriented and want to provide a means by which folks into fiddling and folk music can get together.

Jim and Inge Wood perform primarily as a duo and present and eclectic mixture of folk and fiddle music that reflects their diverse backgrounds.

Jim, the five-time Tennessee Fiddle Champion and twenty-eight year veteran of the professional Nashville music scene, performs on fiddle, mandolin, banjo, and guitar with the highlight being virtuoso fiddling in the contest, old-time, Celtic, and swing styles. Inge, a native of Costa Rica, performs on guitar, bouzouki, and fiddle, and sings a wide range of both original and traditional folk songs in English and Spanish.

Jim and Inge are also very committed to helping others to learn and offer a wide array of educational tools; so, peruse our website to see how we can help you.

The Tennessee Fiddle Orchestra (www.tennesseefiddleorchestra.com)will be playing a concert on Monday, March 5, 2010, at 7:30 p.m. at the Warren County Middle School in McMinnville. Guest artists include Nate Straser, pianist, cellist and songwriter, and John Boulware, Tennessee State fiddle champion. Proceeds go toward the Park Theatre renovation project. The Orchestra will present a concert April 5, at Columbia State Community College.

Together with Homespun tapes, we are proud to present our new instructional videos "Fiddle for the Absolute Beginner" and "20 Easy Tunes for the Beginning Fiddler." In the first two-hour video we get you started the right way: proper posture and body alignment, correct hand positions, warm-up exercises, how to hold the fiddle and the bow, tune up, and start fingering your first notes. Before long you’ll be playing the A scale and easy versions of Old Joe Clark, Cripple Creek and Cotton-Eye Joe using solid bowing patterns, good tone and precise intonation. We even show you how, by learning only a few simple notes (“pads”), you’ll be able to join jam sessions almost immediately! In the second two DVD set you can learn easy versions of some of America’s most-played fiddle tunes and join in any jam session – even if you’ve just started playing!