Dorothy Jane Siver & The Siver Family
Announcements: Dorothy Jane will be playing at the Adirondack Bluegrass League Roundup Festival. Friday, May 30th @ 8pm @ McConchies Campground in Galway, NY.

Jim Bevins....Mom/Jennifer...Dorothy Jane... Dad/Ron


A SPECIAL LITTLE GIRL

Dorothy Jane Siver has been playing music most of her life. With weekly piano lessons since she was 4 years old, her private teacher explained to her parents that she had a musical "gift". At the age of nine she began taking private violin lessons with the local music teacher. Rapidly learning with the popular "Suzuki" method, the two private music teachers continued to give her praise as an above average music student. Dorothy auditioned with 400 musicians and was chosen to become a member of the Vermont Youth Orchestras String group as a Violinist for the 2007 season. Practice was to become more intense now. Piano lessons & daily practice, private violin lessons & daily practice, VYO String rehearsals weekly, VYO String daily practice and a strict homeschool program was starting to put some stress on the young musician. Her parents became concerned as the smiles were deteriorating due to the strictness of the "classical music" routine. A quick plan was adopted and her parents rushed to a local violin shop to find her a cure. They purchased her a "fiddling" book with a cd and took it home for her to play. She not only smiled while playing, but started stomping and swaying as she fell in love with
BLUEGRASS MUSIC !!!!!!

 

Dorothy Jane Siver (11 yrs old)
Lake Champlain Young Fiddler of the Year Award 2007

"I thank God everyday for the gift of music, given to me."
Dorothy Jane Siver

 

Dorothy Jane will be at New York and Vermont Bluegrass festivals and other events this summer of 2008. She would like to pick with you, so if you see her playing, come join in and enjoy the fun.

2008 Events she will be at:

Yannigs Barn Dance (Crown Point, NY) May 24
Adirondack Bluegrass League/ABL Roundup Festival (NY) May 30 (8pm-9pm)
Champlain Valley Bluegrass Campout (Hague,NY) June 6,7,8
Private Party (NY) June 13,14
Schroon Lake Open Jam Session (NY) June 16,23,30 July 7,14,21,28
Strawberry Festival (Tentative) (Crown Point, NY) June 21
Jenny Brook Bluegrass Festival (VT) June 26,27,28,29
Ron's Family Reunion (NY) July 4,5
Basin Bluegrass Festival (VT) July 11,12,13
Grey Fox Festival/Bluegrass Academy for Kids (NY) July 17,18,19,20
The Siver Family Bluegrass Party (NY) Aug 2
Schroon Lake Open Jam Session (NY) Aug 4,11,18,25
Addison County Field Days/Country Night(VT) Aug 9 (7pm-11pm)
Otis Mountain Bluegrass Festival (NY) Aug 15,16
North Creek Bluegrass Festival (NY) Aug 22,23,24
12th Annual Fiddlers Jamboree (NY) Sept 5,6,7
Redford Fiddle Day (NY) Sept 21
42nd Annual Northeast Fiddlers Contest (Barre, VT) Sept 27
Ticonderoga Nursing Home last Saturday of each month 5:30pm (NY) Fall 2008
The Church Street Marketplace (VT) Most Saturdays Summer 2008 (noon-3pm)
Yannigs Barn Dances (Crown Point, NY) Summer 2008

Playing regularly at Champlain Valley Bluegrass (1st sunday) and Champlain Valley Fiddlers (3rd sunday).
She has played at Candi & Seth Sawyers Pickin Party & at the Adirondack Bluegrass Leagues jam sessions at the Parting Glass in Saratoga, NY.

Past events she has played at:

Champlain Valley Bluegrass
Champlain Valley Fiddlers (Middlebury, VT, Vergennes, VT, Port Henry, NY)
The Siver Family Christmas Party
Candi & Seth Sawyers Pickin Party
Ticonderoga Nursing Home, Ticonderoga, NY
ABL Jams @ The Parting Glass, Saratoga, NY
Spring Blossom Fiddle Jamboree, Long Lake, NY
Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, VT

 

 

Dorothy Jane would like to play at your event.

Let us add your event to our calendar.

Reserve your date today.

Email or Phone us.

Thank You!

 


Mom/Jennifer....Dad/Ron.....Jim Bevins.....Dorothy Jane
April 2008


Dorothy Jane Siver & The Siver Family play traditional Bluegrass, Gospel, Fiddle music, and write originals.

Traditional tunes: Dooley, Drifting Too Far From The Shore, Foggy Mountain Top, Pig In A Pen, Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms, Rocky Top, Dark Hollow, In the Pines, Homestead on the Farm (Old Folks at Home), Why Don't You Tell Me So, Love Please Come Home, I'll Remember You Love In My Prayers, Mountain Dew, My Homes Across the Smokey Mountains, Scotland, Shady Grove, Take Me Back To Tulsa.

Gospel Tunes: I Saw the Light, I'll Fly Away, Will the Circle be Unbroken, Amazing Grace.

Fiddle Tunes: Ashokan Farewell, June Apple, Turkey in the Straw, 8th of January, Old Joe Clark, Liberty, St. Annes Reel, Soldiers Joy, Ragtime Annie, Cripple Creek, Arkansas Traveler, Devils Dream, Westphalia Waltz and more.

Our own songs: Amanda Jane & The Shepherd Song

Samples of Dorothy Janes music coming soon!!!!!!



Dorothy Jane...Mom/Jennifer...Jim Bevins...Dad/Ron
May 2008

 

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Dorothy Janes Latest Shows

 

2008 Long Lake Spring Blossom Fiddle Jamboree
April 27, 2008

Don Perkins headliner for the event.
Fabulous Fiddler!!!!!

Dorothy Jane playing with Don Perkins and other fiddlers
@ Long Lake Spring Blossom Fiddle Jamboree 2008

Dorothy Jane Siver

The Siver Family @ Long Lake Spring Blossom Fiddle Jamboree 2008

Dorothy Jane Siver & The Siver Family
Spring Blossom Fiddle Jamboree 2008

Carl Floyd.....Dorothy Janes special friend.
Playing @ Spring Blossom Fiddle Jamboree 2008

 

Dorothy Jane playing at the Lake Champlain Fiddlers Christmas Party 2007 (above)

 

Dorothy Jane playing BLUEGRASS at Middlebury, VT, VFW
November 2007 (above)


Dorothy Jane Siver
&
The Siver Family w/Jim Bevins

173 Hamilton Road
Crown Point, NY 12928

518-597-4DJS or 518-597-4357
info@dorothyjanesiver.com

 

Practice, Practice, Practice!!!!

Jim & Ron during a practice session at the Ford Opry House in Chilson, NY (Mar. '08)

Dorothy Jane........Jim..........Jennifer.......practicing @ the Ford Opry House (Mar '08)

 

Jam Sessions

 

L to R:... Ron/bass......Gene/guitar......Jerry/guitar......Jim/mandolin
Saturday afternoon jam with great music, great food, and great friends. (Mar. '08)
This is how life is suppose to be !!!!!!!

 


 


Mom, Dad & Dorothy Jane (The Sivers)...... Christmas Jam 2007 @ the Sivers home


L to R: Dave Bevins; 2003 National Dobro Champion, Jim Bevins; accompanying mandolin for his brothers National Dobro Championship, Yannig; bluegrass & celtic fiddler, Gene; hard driving bluegrass & country guitarist & Dad; upright bass fiddle..... Christmas Jam 2007 @ the Sivers home. The Bevins brothers played with Dan Tyminski (Alison Krauss & Union Station guitarist) in the 80's with the Green Mountain Bluegrass Band.

Dorothy Jane is very proud to say her mandolin player is Jim Bevins!!

 


Ralph Lane/guitar & Dorothy Jane..... Jam at Yannigs home


Dave Bevins/dobro & Jim Bevins/mandolin @ the Sivers home.
Bluegrass fans would have paid to see this jam session!!!!

 

Dorothy Jane playing at a Champlain Valley Bluegrass meeting.

 

Dorothy Jane congratulates her friends

2007 Lake Champlain Fiddlers, members of the year!!

Lynn & Maurice Bourgeois
Addison, VT (below)
Fantastic Cloggers, Spoon Players, Keyboardist & Fiddler.

 

Spring Fun 2008

Dorothy Jane going by with Gramp & Dixie

Winter Fun 2008

When not playing music Dorothy Jane enjoys the Adirondack outdoors.

Dorothy Jane enjoying a day of sliding.

Mom & Dorothy Jane snowshoeing in the Adirondacks.

Dad & Dorothy Jane snowshoeing in the Adirondacks.

Mom & Dorothy Jane on the trail.

Typical day of Homeschool 5th grade (April '08)

 

 

This website is dedicated to:

E. Victor "Vic" Rice "Grandad"/ Fiddler

&

Clarence "Dusty" Bevins / Guitar & Vocals

 

"Keep On Keeping On"

 

 

 

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Contact information below.

Dorothy Jane Siver
&
The Siver Family w/Jim Bevins
173 Hamilton Road
Crown Point, NY 12928
518-597-4DJS or 518-597-4357
info@dorothyjanesiver.com

11 year old Dorothy Jane plays fiddle, mandolin, piano and sings.
Learning bass fiddle and guitar.