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June 5, 2012

Tarantella – Fiddle Tune a Day – Day 154

I love playing at weddings, and it’s even more fun when you have things to make the wedding more interesting. This weekend, I had the pleasure of playing at a wedding where a substantial part of the family was Italian, and they wanted to hear the Tarantella. Since I had never played the Tarantella before, […]

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April 30, 2012

Blanchard’s Hornpipe – Fiddle Tune a Day – Day 120

Blanchard’s Hornpipe is a tune that I have heard a handful of times before, but I can’t place where. There’s a good chance I have a recording of Benny Thomasson Playing it somewhere. I was reading through Cole’s 1000 fiddle tunes, and picked it out a couple of days ago. Tonight I decided to work […]

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March 27, 2012

Harlaxton Hornpipe – Fiddle Tune a Day – Day 87

I wrote the Harlaxton Hornpipe in the basement of Neu Chapel on the campus of University of Evansville. It was the fall of 1996, and I was getting ready to leave for England to spend a semester abroad at Harlaxton College, near Grantham, Lincolnshire. I had my copy of Cole’s 1000 fiddle tunes and I […]

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January 19, 2012

Grain Valley Waltz – Fiddle Tune a Day – Day 18

I have judged a lot of fiddle contests, and one of my favorite characters to have met at a fiddle contest is J.C. Hounshell. I had the opportunity to judge the Grand Lake National Fiddling Championships with J.C. a few years back. After the contest, we went back to the Grand hotel with Gayle and […]

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