Fiddle jams and sessions for novice and advanced fiddlers! Sponsored by the Quiet Corner Fiddlers, Willimantic, CT, USA 

For more information call Chuck at 860-423-5403 or email chuckmrgn@att.net

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The Quiet Corner Fiddlers have been getting together weekly since June 2005 and we have grown from 4 or 5 fiddles at each session to as many as 20 or more! We have practice sessions, workshops taught by visiting fiddlers, and some public performance dates. Our Tunelist is found below on this web page...

At a  typical session we play tunes from the playlist below for about an hour and a quarter, members of the group in turn picking which tune to play.  Each tune is played 4 or 5 times, at first slowly then faster. This is followed by about a quarter hour of working on new tunes selected by members. Skill levels range from novice to retired Champions, but we all love playing fiddle and we invite all fiddlers to visit us.

 

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Recent Tunes:

Mon Compaire (Compère?) (audio of tune from Claudine Arcane) (transcription below) 

Many of the QCF fiddlers are also interested in the Old Fiddlers Club of Rhode Island -here are some of the OFCRI practice tunes:  Opening Medley  is a brief practice audio that Chuck whipped off. It has slow 'basic barebones' of the five tunes that make up the opening medley played by the Old Fiddlers Club of RI  Also, here is are audio files: OFCRI first part of French-Canadian Medley and second part of French Canadian Medley and some written music from OFCRI. And a barebones basic audio file of Judique Jig (key of D version) from Chuck.  

(more transcripts of music at the bottom of this page)

 

Find us on Tuesdays - 7pm - 8:30pm!

The Quiet Corner Fiddlers, an informal group of from ten to twenty fiddlers, generally holds weekly fiddle sessions on Tuesdays from 7:00 to 8:30 in the Willimantic CT area.  The purpose of the sessions is to have fun playing fiddle tunes together and to improve our fiddling skills. The following is our usual schedule:

1st Tues - E-mail photopunky@aol.com to inquire

2nd Tues  - Freds Brick House Cafi,
1691 West Main St., 
Willimantic (call first) 

3rd Tues - E-mail photopunky@aol.com to inquire

4th Tues - Chucks place (e-mail chuckmrgn@att.net to confirm)

5th Tue - Chucks place (e-mail chuckmrgn@att.net to confirm)

Some folks play from written music and some play by ear. We often choose new tunes to learn from the David Brody Fiddler's Fakebook which nearly all of us own and use. Sometimes we have copies of this book available for new members to buy.  Some people find this large book awkward to handle, so we have been discussing what other tune books might be a good choice...

 

 

Chuck leads a recent gig at Akus Galleries, Eastern Connecticut State University, Feb 2009, Annual RR Museum Concert - June 2009

(Former Playlist from December 2008 is below)

PROPOSED (not effective yet)

 Active Play List

 Quiet Corner Fiddlers -

 July 7, 2009

Jigs
Hundred Pipers
IrishWashrwoman
Joanie’s Jig

Kesh Jig
Kinlock of Kinlock

Maggie Brown’sFavorite

Merrily Kiss The Quaker

MyDunganonSweethart

Road to Lisvoonvarna
Smash Windows
Stool of Repentance

Swallowtail Jig

Tobin’s Jig

 

Miscellaneous

Da Slockit Light

Down By Sally Gardens
Faded Love
Life’s Railway Heaven
Railroad Blues

San Antonio Rose

Will Circle Be Unbroken

 

Sing-a-long

Danny Boy, I’ve Been Work on Railroad,  Let Me Call Sweetheart, My Wild Irish Rose, Yankee Doodle Medley,
When Irish Eyes Smiling, Wabash CannonBall, Wreck of Old 97

Reels, Hornpipes, Marches, & Polkas

Angeline the Baker
Angus Campbell
Appalache
Billy in Low Ground
BonparteCrssngRhine
Boys of Blue Hill
Captain Campbell
Concertina Hornpipe
Cotton Eyed Joe
DanHughieMcEachern’s
Devil's Dream
Down Yonder
Farewell to Whiskey
Flop Eared Mule
Flowers of Edinburgh
Galway Hornpipe
Gaspe Reel
Girl I Left Behind
Golden Slippers
Greencastle Hornpipe
Growling Old Man
Harvest Home
Iron Man

Jamie Allen
Jenny Lind Polka
Joys of Quebec
King of the Fairies
La Bastringe
Liberty
Mari’s Wedding
Ma Yofus
Miss McLeod's Reel

Montague Processional
Mouth of the Tobique
Nancy’s March
Off to California
Old French
Over the Waterfall
Paddy on the Railway
Pinto Bean 2 Step
Pres. Garfield Hornpipe
Ragtime Annie
Rakes of Mallow
Red Haired Boy
Red Wing
Sailor’s Hornpipe
Saint Anne’s Reel
Saint Antoine Reel
Scotland the Brave
Sherbrooke Reel
Simple Gifts
Soldier’s Joy
Stones Rag
Swinging On a Gate
Temperance Reel
Turkey in Straw
Whisky Before Breakfst
Willafjord
Ziegeunerpolka

 

 

Waltzes

Ash Grove
Ashokan Farewell
Bernadette

Black Velvet

Claudette

Country Waltz
Dear Litttle Shamrock
Donegal Mazurka
Gentle Maiden

Glengarry My Home

Give Me Your Hand

Homesteaders

Joli Blon
Karl XII

Lovers Waltz
My Home
Midnight on Water

Nancy’s Waltz

Shady Grove
Si Bheag, Si Mhor

Star of County Down

Sunset Over Ayr
Tennessee Waltz

Tombigbee
Westphalia

White Rose Avondale
Wild Rose Mountain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quiet Corner Fiddlers Active Play List -- Rev 12/10/2008  (link to a page of these tunes formatted for print out)

 

 Jigs
Hundred Pipers
IrishWashrwoman
Joanies Jig
Kesh Jig
Kinlock of Kinlock
Lilting Fisherman
Maggie Brown's Favorite
Merrily Kiss the Quaker
My Dungannon Sweeetheart
Road to Lisvoonvarna
Smash the Windows
Stool of Repentance
Swallowtail Jig
Tobins Jig

Miscellaneous

Blues for Cindy 
Da Slockit Light
Down By Sally Gardens
Faded Love
Lifes Railway to Heaven
Neil Gows Lament
Railroad Blues
San Antonio Rose
Wildwood Flower
Will the Circle be Unbroken

Reels, Hornpipes, Marches, & Polkas
Angeline the Baker
Angus Campbell
Appalache
Billy in the Low Ground
Bonparte Crossing the Rhine
Cotton Eyed Joe DanHughieMcEacherns
Devil's Dream
Down Yonder
Eighth of January
Farewell to Whiskey
Fine Times Our House
Flop Eared Mule
Flowers of Edinburgh
Galway Hornpipe
Gaspe Reel
Girl I Left Behind
Golden Slippers
Greencastle Hornpipe
Harvest Home
Jamie Allen
Jenny Lind Polka
Joys of Quebec
King of the Fairies
La Bastringe
Liberty

Ma Yofus
Miss McLeod's Reel
Mouth of the Tobique
Nancys Waltz
Off to California
Old French
Old Joe Clark
Orange Blossom Special
Paddy on the Railway
Paddy ...You Drink... Cider
Pinto Bean Two Step
President Garfield Hornpipe Ragtime Annie
Rakes of Mallow
Red Haired Boy
Red Wing
Rights of Man
Sailors Hornpipe
Saint Annes Reel
Saint Antoine Reel
Scotland the Brave
Scottish Medley
Soldiers Joy
Stones Rag
Swinging On a Gate
Temperance Reel
Too Young to Marry
Turkey in the Straw
Whisky Before Breakfast
Willafjord
Ziguenerpolka 

 

 

Waltzes
Ash Grove
Ashokan Farewell
Black Velvet
Claudette
Dear Litttle Shamrock
Donegal Mazurka
Gentle Maiden
Glengarry My Home
Joli Blon
Karl XII
Lovers Waltz
My Home
Midnight on Water
Nancy's Waltz 
Shady Grove
Si Bheag, Si Mhor
Southwind
Star of County Down
Tennessee Waltz
Tombigbee
Westphalia
White Rose Avondale
Wild Rose Mountain

 Sing-a-long

After the Ball, Ain't She Sweet, Annie's Song, Band Played On, Danny Boy, Five Hundred Miles, I Can't Stop Loving You, Ive Been Work on Railroad,  Let Me Call Sweetheart, Love Makes World Go Round, MacNamaras Band, Molly Malone, My Wild Irish Rose, Sweet Rosie OGrady
Yankee Doodle Medley
When Irish Eyes Smiling, Wabash CannonBall, Wreck of Old 97

Mon Compaire (from Claudine Arcand, see above for audio file - we aren't sure of the name of this one. Mon Compère would mean, My Godfather, but it can also mean the Master of Ceremonies, the guy in charge of the party...)