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January 15, 2021

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 […]

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January 7, 2021

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 […]

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January 1, 2021

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 […]

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December 23, 2020

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 […]

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December 18, 2020

Descent Into the Depths – Vi The Fiddler’s New Tune Challenge

Descent Into The Depths - New Tune Challenge

Hello, my fine fiddling friends! Here’s a New Tune Challenge for you! I just finished writing this one about five minutes before I recorded it. It’s a jig in the key of D, called it Descent Into the Depths. You could just call it Descent, if you want to. Or, you could call it decent […]

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December 11, 2020

Uncle JC’s Hornpipe – Vi The Fiddler’s New Tune Challenge

I’m back with another tune in my New Tune Challenge! I wrote this tune this last week, after Sherri Wortham suggested that I should write a tune for JC Hounshell. JC’s a great Texas Fiddler. I’ve judged the Grand Lake American Heritage Fiddle Fest with him a number of times, and I learned a couple […]

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December 4, 2020

Russian Christmas – Vi The Fiddler’s New Tune Challenge

Hello, my friends! Here’s another addition to my New Tune Challenge series. This one is kind of a Christmasy tune called Russian Christmas. It’s got a Eastern European or Russian kind of sound to it. Last weekend, while my wife Christina and I were riding in the car (she was driving), I started humming a […]

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November 27, 2020

Pass The Grog – Vi The Fiddler’s New Tune Challenge

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 […]

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November 20, 2020

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 […]

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November 13, 2020

Waltz for Willow – Vi The Fiddler’s New Tune Challenge

Waltz for Willow 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 […]

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