I learned Dew Drop Hornipe from Lisa Barrett, when I stayed at their  house when I was in High School. I remember Dick telling me that it was a tune I could play as a breakdown at any fiddle contest. I haven’t played it in many contests, but I do still enjoy playing it. There is an especially cool fingering on the shift down the second time through the B Part.

I’m playing it at the Hey Cupcake Airstream food trailer on South Congress in Austin, TX. There was a guy busking in front of it when I came by. I asked him if he wanted to join me playing on youtube, and he split. I hope I didn’t scare him off.

This is all that Fiddler’s Companion Had to Say about Dew Drop Hornpipe

DEW DROP HORNPIPE. American, Hornpipe. A Major. Standard tuning. AABB. The ‘B’ part of this melody appears in the tune “Brilliancy.” There was a variety house called the Dew Drop In in New York in the Civil War years. Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 85. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; pg. 119.

This is Little Rhino, a fiddle hoedown that I wrote for my son, Ryan. I hope you enjoy it.

I have also posted sheet music for it at:
http://www.wickam.net/latest/little-rhino.html

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