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Thread #171336   Message #4143844
Posted By: Helen
09-Jun-22 - 04:00 PM
Thread Name: 10 Best Fiddle Tunes
Subject: RE: 10 Best Fiddle Tunes
I second gillymor's suggestions for Boys of Bluehill and Harvest Home, and also they work well in a set with Off to California.

We have a brilliant fiddle player in our session group (which has been going for over 40 years) so we have a lot of great fiddle tunes on our list.

Some of the more unusual tunes are Clean Pease Strae, Sandy River Belle, Dick's Pig, Saint Anne's Reel, Jump at the Sun (which always makes me think of another out-there tune called Puddleglum's Misery, which is also composed by John Kirkpatrick), Crested Hens, Ookpik Waltz, The Snowy Path, The Butterfly, Horse's Bransle, (Branle des Chevaux)

two Welsh tunes called Ffarwell I'r Marion and Bladau'r Drain, Archibald McDonald of Keppoch,

two pages of marches: Brian Boru's March, O'Neill's March, After the Battle of Aughrim, Lord Mayo, Return from Fingal,

some rollicking fast tunes: The Volunteer, Old Concertina Reel, Tamlin Reel, The Boy in the Gap, Drowsy Maggie.

That's only some of the more unusual tunes on our list. There are heaps more that we play.