Ely - Cherokee Shuffle goes pretty good as a medley with Bill Cheatum . In linking together fiddle tunes there seem to be several ethnic variations. The Canadians and Scots I've heard like to jump from key to key, sort of in a circle of fifths, with each new tunel, while the Americans I've heard like to stay in the same key. (This may be because the 5-string banjo, which is usually in the mix with American fiddlers, is not easy to change keys with ??)
Also, when Bill Staples (English) came through on the Mudcat Tour last June, he was fairly adamant that each tune in a medley should only be played twice before moving on to the next, wheras the American fiddlers here go on for four or five repetitions.
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