There is a book called Kidfiddle by Jerry Silverman (Mel Bay) that may still be in print. The cassette tape is out of print, unfortunately since it added greatly to learning. There are 46 Easy Folk Songs any young fiddler will love to play. My favorites that give the student the chance to learn to play in all the basic keys are: Cripple Creek Old Joe Clark Red River Valley Filimiooriay Rig A Jig Jig Flop-Eared Mule Old Rosin, The Beau Crossing Over To Ireland Home on the Range Black-Eyed Susie Crawdad Bowling Green Cumberland Gap Fly Around My Blue-Eyed Girl More Pretty Girls Than One Ground Hog My Home's Across The Somky Mountains Sail Away, Ladies Sally Ann Red Apple Juice Sally Goodin Sourwood Mountain The Wabash Cannonball Salty Dog Nine Hundred Miles Arkansas Traveler The Gal I Left Behind Me Mountain Dew The Irish Washerwoman Garryowen Turkey In the Straw (ol' Zip Coon) Ragtime Annie There are many more...you pick 10, I cannot. This is a delightful little book any beginning fiddler, old or young, will treasure.
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