Fiddle Hangout Top 100 Folk Songs

Here is a simple Gypsy Style tune in D Harmonic minor. I learned this from Mary Ann Harbar's Gypsy Violin Basics book.

Warning, No fiddle content here. Just a new song I've written in the aftermath of losing my wife to cancer a few months ago, about finding comfort in habits that develop over the years, but don't mean the same thing now. You might find it amusing, you might not, I'm not really sure.

A self-penned relaxed sounding waltz in memory of my Gran.

Played here by The Montville Project.

Sheet music available at LEARN TO PLAY > Tab Archives > White Mountain Wedding Waltz.

Celebrating the Cigar Box Fiddle's 3rd year in existence, and since the cigar box came from a little antique shop in Missouri, the Missouri Waltz seemed appropriate. I keep filing on the bass bar(which I made way too big to begin with) and the sound seems to keep getting better.

I think This is a great song written by Ryan Cornett (MileStretch) of Manchester KY about 22 miles east of London where I live. Ryan performed vocals, played Banjo and Guitar. I recorded the Fiddle track at home and sent it to him via DROPBOX. He copied and pasted into his recording software. Technology! How cool is that.

Traditional song collected by Francis James Child #209 of 305 on the late 19th cent. most probably from a broadsheet. Made popular in the 60's by Baez and McColl

Allie Cain was a wonderful girl that I met in the Isle of Mann while we were on tour there. Love the person - loved the name. Another bit of English fiddling, though not too much Manx about it.

English fiddling again, though it sounds a bit Irish. The title is Manx and means Val's Dance. Val is the choreographer for our women's Manx Morris team. Lovely girl.

A song played by my Grandfather, John Wesley Messer. I don't know the name.

This is the audio from a vid I shot of two friends playing this Swedish tune on two nyckelharpas. Vid url is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7psXP9PFQ18

This is a slightly sketchy recording of some tunes I recently remembered from my folk tune repertoire as a child. Recently I've been trying to learn more Bluegrass, Old Time and Swing stuff but thought I'd have a go some old Scottish tunes after browsing this site. Not sure if I've remembered them correctly and sorry about the mistakes! Its been a while since I played these properly! Just thought I'd see what people thought anyway.

peppier than my first version

This is an old Nova Scotia folk song of a sailor's adventures ashore. There are eight verses to the song but I've only played it through twice(two verses). It has a slow rhythm to it which makes it different from other traditional songs.

Folk song about growing up on a lake in western New Brunswick. Melody inspired by playing waltz two step fiddle tunes.