Hello, my fine fiddling friends! I’m here with another tune from my New Tune Challenge! This is a tune I wrote a couple of years ago. It’s a jig in the key of G. I’m trying to mix it up and give you some different tunes of different types. I call this one Pass The […]
Here’s to John Hartford – Vi The Fiddler’s New Tune Challenge
Hello My Friends! I’m back with another New Tune Challenge! This is another one of my original tunes, called Here’s to John Hartford. It’s an old-time/bluegrassy sounding tune, that when it came out of my head, I thought it sounded like something John Hartford would’ve written. I wrote it not long after doing one of […]
Waltz for Willow – Vi The Fiddler’s New Tune Challenge
I wrote Waltz for Willow to celebrate the birth of my friends’ newest daughter. This is the second tune in my New Tune Challenge series. The goal of this project is to get you to respond. I’m going to play the tune, and then I want to hear your take on this tune. I want […]
Vi The Fiddler’s New Tune Challenge – Jumping Jenny
Hello, my friends! This is the start of a new project. This is going to be a series, I don’t know how long. I’m going to post about one original tune a week for you. This first one is called Jumping Jenny. I just wrote it recently, and it’s a fun reel. The goal of […]
Blacktail Weasel and the Ground Squirrel Clan – Fiddle Tune a Day – Day 230
Blacktail Weasel and the Ground Squirrel Clan is an original tune by my Fiddle Whamdiddle Compadre, Steve Eulberg. I really like it’s modal old-timey sound. I figured that it was an appalachian old-time tune until Steve told me that he wrote it. I can just see that weasel chasing those prairie dogs, and them standing […]
Colorado Waltz – Fiddle Tune a Day – Day 40
I wrote the Colorado Waltz when I was 12 years old. That was way back in the 1980’s for those of you young whipper-snappers. I was fooling around on my fiddle, and I started playing the A Part of the song, and my dad liked it, and he wrote the B part to it. So, […]
Bitter Sweet
Original Tune, Bitter Sweet, Recorded at Vi Wickam’s CD release party for his new Album, “Long Time Comin’” Taken March 25, 2011 at Avogadro’s Number in Fort Collins, CO