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                                                                                                                              FIDDLE TUNES

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                                                                                                                              Here's a list of the tunes I can play on the fiddle - some better than others:
                                                                                                                              (Those listed with * are original tunes I've composed) Click here to see the sheet music for many of my original tunes.

                                                                                                                              No one person deserves any more recognition for any of my fiddling talents than my truly great friend Donnie Perkins. The musical talent of Donnie is endless and I am so glad that he took the time over the years to help me along with my fiddling.

                                                                                                                              The Trip to Dublin (Strathspey)
                                                                                                                              Harry Bradshaw's (Reel)
                                                                                                                              The Marchioness of Huntly (Strathspey)
                                                                                                                              Gordon Cote' (Reel)
                                                                                                                              Angus Campbell (Reel)
                                                                                                                              The Mason's Apron (Reel)
                                                                                                                              Alder Brook *(Reel)
                                                                                                                              Gold Rush (Bluegrass) (Reel)
                                                                                                                              Braw Birks*(Reel)
                                                                                                                              The Round Pond Reel*(Reel)
                                                                                                                              Delahanty's
                                                                                                                              Lost Indian
                                                                                                                              Whiskey, You're the Devil
                                                                                                                              Whiskey Before Breakfast
                                                                                                                              Mary Claire
                                                                                                                              President Garfield's
                                                                                                                              Galway Reel
                                                                                                                              Mouth of the Tobique
                                                                                                                              Piper's Despair
                                                                                                                              Arkansas Traveler
                                                                                                                              Green Pepper Rag*
                                                                                                                              Back Up and Push
                                                                                                                              Billy in the Low Ground
                                                                                                                              Bill Cheatum
                                                                                                                              Saratoga Hornpipe
                                                                                                                              Dick Sand's Hornpipe
                                                                                                                              The Fisher's Hornpipe
                                                                                                                              Redwing
                                                                                                                              Turkey in the Straw
                                                                                                                              Flop-eared Mule
                                                                                                                              Irish Washer Woman
                                                                                                                              Saddleback Jig*
                                                                                                                              Sweet Biddy Dailey (Jig)
                                                                                                                              Top of Cork Road (Jig)
                                                                                                                              Father O'Flynn's
                                                                                                                              Mrs. Watson's Henhouse
                                                                                                                              Woodchopper's Reel
                                                                                                                              Happy Acres Two-step
                                                                                                                              The Devil's Dream
                                                                                                                              The Linen Cap
                                                                                                                              Soldier's Joy
                                                                                                                              Cuckoo's Nest
                                                                                                                              The Liverpool Hornpipe
                                                                                                                              The Kitchen Girl
                                                                                                                              The Regal Hornpipe*
                                                                                                                              Sweet Journeys (Waltz)
                                                                                                                              The Dreamer's (Waltz)
                                                                                                                              Ashokan's Farewell (Waltz)
                                                                                                                              The Happy Go Lucky Clog
                                                                                                                              The Humors of Castle Bernard
                                                                                                                              Newcastle Hornpipe
                                                                                                                              Gatineau Reel
                                                                                                                              Jackson's Fancy (Jig)
                                                                                                                              Humors of Bally Castle (Jig)
                                                                                                                              Father Dollard's
                                                                                                                              Faded Love
                                                                                                                              The Maiden's Prayer
                                                                                                                              Silver Bells
                                                                                                                              Saint Anne's Reel
                                                                                                                              Jay Mountain*
                                                                                                                              Snowflake Breakdown
                                                                                                                              Liberty Two-step
                                                                                                                              Kingdom Coming
                                                                                                                              Pierre Trudeau's Reel (From Don Perkin's fiddle book)
                                                                                                                              The Muddy Old Pig*
                                                                                                                              Effy Ellen*
                                                                                                                              The Old Tin Can*
                                                                                                                              The Old Man in the Woods*
                                                                                                                              High Level Hornpipe (rusty on this one)
                                                                                                                              Down Yonder
                                                                                                                              Sally Goodin
                                                                                                                              The Gathering*
                                                                                                                              Laird McNichols*
                                                                                                                              Gowan 'o the Strath*
                                                                                                                              Shanty Brook*
                                                                                                                              The Farmer's Reel (From Don Perkin's fiddle book)
                                                                                                                              The Skillet-Lickin' Breakdown (From Don Perkin's fiddle book)
                                                                                                                              Cold Brook
                                                                                                                              Golden Slippers
                                                                                                                              Joy's of Quebec
                                                                                                                              Old Joe Clark
                                                                                                                              Minstrel's Fancy
                                                                                                                              Harvest Home
                                                                                                                              Fire on the Mountain
                                                                                                                              Ragtime Annie
                                                                                                                              Li'l Burnt Potato (Jig)
                                                                                                                              Orange Blossom Special
                                                                                                                              Blackberry Blossom
                                                                                                                              The Disappointed Coquette
                                                                                                                              Foggy Mountain Breakdown (Bluegrass)
                                                                                                                              Little Cabin Home on the Hill (Bluegrass)
                                                                                                                              Footprints in the Snow (Bluegrass)
                                                                                                                              Big John McNeil
                                                                                                                              Boil the Cabbage Down
                                                                                                                              Westphalia Waltz
                                                                                                                              The Swallow Tail (Jig)
                                                                                                                              Sally Johnson
                                                                                                                              Listen to the Mocking Bird
                                                                                                                              Uncle Pen (Bluegrass)
                                                                                                                              Jole Blon (Cajun)
                                                                                                                              Across the Big Sandy
                                                                                                                              The Pastor Stomped His Collar*
                                                                                                                              Alec Menzie's (Clog)
                                                                                                                              The Old Boar
                                                                                                                              Earl Grey (Strathspey)
                                                                                                                              You Are My Sunshine
                                                                                                                              Cripple Creek
                                                                                                                              San Antonio Rose
                                                                                                                              Pop Goes the Weasel (Jig)
                                                                                                                              Buffalo Girls
                                                                                                                              Red River Valley
                                                                                                                              The Wabash Cannonball
                                                                                                                              Wheel Hoss
                                                                                                                              The Red-Haired Boy
                                                                                                                              Blanchard's Hornpipe
                                                                                                                              January Thaw*
                                                                                                                              Cripple Creek
                                                                                                                              Another Hair Gone*
                                                                                                                              The Saint Regis*
                                                                                                                              Rock Cut Brook*
                                                                                                                              Dance of the Field*
                                                                                                                              Boil the Cabbage Down
                                                                                                                              The Wabash Cannonball
                                                                                                                              Beard Hair on the Fiddle*
                                                                                                                              Fireball Mail
                                                                                                                              Fireball
                                                                                                                              The Decipious Fiddler*
                                                                                                                              The Valley Road Jig*
                                                                                                                              Dogs Among the Bushes
                                                                                                                              The North Country Reel*
                                                                                                                              That Fair Haired Lass of Mine*
                                                                                                                              The Highlands Fiddler*
                                                                                                                              My Autumn Waltz*
                                                                                                                              Elibridge Balsam*
                                                                                                                              Reuben Sanford's Still*
                                                                                                                              The Twin Pond Reel*
                                                                                                                              Scratch My Back in the Shower* (Breakdown)
                                                                                                                              Mary's Oe'r to See Her Nephews*

                                                                                                                              The Wells Hill Reel*
                                                                                                                              Primrose in the Vale*
                                                                                                                              The Windy Barn*
                                                                                                                              The December Hornpipe*
                                                                                                                              Fill the Tire Check the Gas*
                                                                                                                              Grassicalli*

                                                                                                                              Little Home in West Virginia
                                                                                                                              Goodbye Liza Jane
                                                                                                                              The Squirrel Hunter's (reel)
                                                                                                                              The Red Apple Rag
                                                                                                                              Washington County
                                                                                                                              Shuckin' the Corn (Bluegrass)
                                                                                                                              Earl's Breakdown (Bluegrass)
                                                                                                                              Get Along Home, Cindy, Cindy
                                                                                                                              Little Liza Jane (this tune is different from Goodbye Liza Jane)
                                                                                                                              Sally Ann
                                                                                                                              Banjo Gal
                                                                                                                              Rocky Island
                                                                                                                              Shout Little Louie
                                                                                                                              Mountain Dew
                                                                                                                              Room At The Top Of The Stairs (Bluegrass)
                                                                                                                              Next Sunday is my Birthday (Bluegrass)
                                                                                                                              Whoa Mule (Bluegrass)
                                                                                                                              Heart to Heart (Bluegrass)
                                                                                                                              Angels Are Singing (Bluegrass)
                                                                                                                              I Only Exist (Bluegrass)
                                                                                                                              I Got a Letter (Bluegrass)
                                                                                                                              John Hardy (Bluegrass)
                                                                                                                              Banjo Boogie (Bluegrass)
                                                                                                                              When You're Lonely (Bluegrass)
                                                                                                                              Washington County
                                                                                                                              Angeline Baker



                                                                                                                              (and a few more that I can't think of the names of)



                                                                                                                              Rock Cut Brook.


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                                                                                                                              New York & Northern States Fiddlers

                                                                                                                              Here's a list of some of the fiddlers I can remember meeting and playing with over the many years I lived in the "North Country":

                                                                                                                              Albert Warner (my father)
                                                                                                                              Walter Robinson
                                                                                                                              Francis Pierce
                                                                                                                              Shirley Wallace
                                                                                                                              Simon St. Pierre
                                                                                                                              Kip ? (From Maine)
                                                                                                                              Donnie Perkins
                                                                                                                              Phyllis (Perkins) Ezero
                                                                                                                              Joel Perkins
                                                                                                                              Sam Tidwell
                                                                                                                              Don Roy
                                                                                                                              Don La Barge
                                                                                                                              Louis Commeau
                                                                                                                              Lucien Mathieu
                                                                                                                              Gary Parmileau
                                                                                                                              Joe Parmileau
                                                                                                                              Joe Cormier
                                                                                                                              Slim Tanner
                                                                                                                              John Tolbert
                                                                                                                              Leon Strack
                                                                                                                              Reggie Miller
                                                                                                                              Millard Eggleston
                                                                                                                              Virginia Gilmore
                                                                                                                              Junior Place
                                                                                                                              Earl Southmayd
                                                                                                                              Dick "Daddy" Richards
                                                                                                                              John Kirk
                                                                                                                              Vic Kibler
                                                                                                                              Yannig Tanguy
                                                                                                                              Jackie Hobbs
                                                                                                                              David Briggs
                                                                                                                              Philip Banaszak
                                                                                                                              Gretchen Banaszak
                                                                                                                              Kathy Sommers
                                                                                                                              Harry Ralph
                                                                                                                              Hal Casey
                                                                                                                              George Harriger
                                                                                                                              Jimmie Hamblin
                                                                                                                              Don Woodcock
                                                                                                                              Ernie McDonald
                                                                                                                              Leon Boyea
                                                                                                                              Hope Grietzer
                                                                                                                              Keith Hunt
                                                                                                                              Alasdair Fraser
                                                                                                                              Lauren Eddy
                                                                                                                              Bob Marcotte
                                                                                                                              Jim Davis
                                                                                                                              Bill Sage
                                                                                                                              Jim Sage
                                                                                                                              Dan Tessier
                                                                                                                              Tim Farrell
                                                                                                                              Brian Mason
                                                                                                                              Ted Wrench
                                                                                                                              John Warner
                                                                                                                              Rollie Swinton
                                                                                                                              Sara Milonovich
                                                                                                                              Nick Barr
                                                                                                                              Frank Orsini
                                                                                                                              John Kirk
                                                                                                                              more to follow......

                                                                                                                              Southern States Fiddlers

                                                                                                                              Here's a list of southern states fiddlers I've met and picked with:

                                                                                                                              Bobby Hicks
                                                                                                                              Keith Williams
                                                                                                                              Terry Barnes
                                                                                                                              Kenny Williams
                                                                                                                              Lisa Pattison
                                                                                                                              Frank Rogers
                                                                                                                              Mike Broome
                                                                                                                              Dave ? (From the Rheatown Jams)
                                                                                                                              Alice Hensley
                                                                                                                              Robert Crigger
                                                                                                                              Zayn Skinner
                                                                                                                              Alfred Carter
                                                                                                                              Mike Hensley
                                                                                                                              more to follow......