Hello My Fiddle Friends! My newest New Tune Challenge is here! Colorado Gold Rush is an old-timey tune in the same vein as Lefthand Canyon, and it reminded me of miners taking off from the East, headed to Colorado to make their fortune. It tells of the adventurer spirit that has built Colorado. And, it […]
I Been Thinkin’ ‘Bout You – Vi The Fiddler’s New Tune Challenge
Hello My Friends, I’m back with another New Tune Challenge! This is a unique New Tune Challenge because it’s not a regular fiddle tune. This tune is attached to words. In fact, they’re lyrics. It’s a song, not a tune, but I think it still counts because I wrote the melody to go with the […]
Lefthand Canyon – Vi The Fiddler’s New Tune Challenge
Hey Fiddle Friends! My inspiration for this tune was the slide down at the beginning of the Orville Burns tune, Cumberland Gap. (Check out my Fiddle Tune a Day recording of Cumberland Gap here) Since I live in Colorado, and there’s already a whole other tune called Cumberland Gap, I decided to name it after a […]
Slippery Slope Jig – Vi The Fiddler’s New Tune Challenge
Hello my friends! The latest installment of my New Tune Challenge is here! This one was inspired by Scottish Fiddler, Amy Lewis, who sent me a slip jig that she wrote. I haven’t worked her tune up yet, but it is on my todo list. Sorry Amy! When she mentioned the slip jig she wrote, […]
Dead Men’s Donuts – Vi The Fiddler’s New Tune Challenge
Hello my friends! I’m back with another New Tune Challenge! This is a tune I wrote a couple months ago for my friend’s podcast, Dead Men’s Donuts. It’s kinda creepy, but if you like creepy things you’ll probably LOVE this podcast. Grace Baudino is clever, insightful, and generally kicks butt! Follow the Dead Men’s Donuts […]
Sailing on Air – Vi The Fiddler’s New Tune Challenge
Hello my friends! I wrote this New Tune Challenge melody a couple of weeks ago as I was walking my dog. The Colorado Sun was shining in the crisp morning air. I was filled with a sense of comfort and peace. A New Year is upon us! A year filled with new hope and opportunity. […]
Fiddling Sasquatch – Vi The Fiddler’s New Tune Challenge
Hello, my friends! Vi the Fiddler Wickam here with today’s New Tune Challenge! I call this one Fiddling Sasquatch and I have my Fiddlin’ Sasquatch shirt on. This morning as I was getting ready for my day, I saw this shirt in my closet and I thought, what would a Fiddling Sasquatch sound like? And […]
Almost Minor – Vi The Fiddler’s New Tune Challenge
Hello, my fiddle friends! I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking surely by now Vi Wickam has run out of fiddle tunes, but I’m not even close! This is another original of mine I wrote this last March at the beginnings of the COVID pandemic. I called it Almost Minor and I wrote it as […]
C-Saw Rag – Vi The Fiddler’s New Tune Challenge
Happy New Year! Vi Wickam here with another New Tune Challenge. This one is called the C-Saw Rag. I was going to record this one as my Christmas tune, but it was delayed by a week because I wrote and recorded The Christmas Star as we were setting up to record. So, this is my […]
The Christmas Star – Vi The Fiddler’s New Tune Challenge
Hi everybody, I’m back with another New Tune Challenge! I call this one The Christmas Star. It’s a waltz I wrote about 45 seconds before recording. I had a seed of this tune as I was falling as falling asleep two or three nights ago. I was laying in bed and this melody popped into […]