Fridays 11:00am

all dates subject to change

May 8 - Review: Trip to Skye, Dusty Windowsills, Yellow Jig, The Road to Errogie, Burchard’s Hornpipe, Valse Gisele

May 15 - New Tune: Old French

Patti Kusturok rocks it once again

Velocipede is Julia Plumb and Baron Collins-Hill starts at 2:47

Ed Howe (from MFC Flaming Ambulance fame) adds some nice ornaments and variations

May 22 - Review: Old French, Trip to Skye, Dusty Windowsills, Yellow Jig, The Road to Errogie, Burchard’s Hornpipe MAKE NOTE OF OUR OUR FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE PIECES: Burchard’s Hornpipe, Trip to Skye, The Road to Errogie

May 29 - New Tune:

June 5 - Review:


January 16 - New Tune: Valse Gisele YouTube Patti Kusturok YouTube Calvin Vollrath YouTube Yvon Cuillerier (the composer) Remember, we have time next week to finish if we need it. SHEET MUSIC

January 23 - Review: Valse Gisele, Stone Rag, Saratoga Hornpipe, Apple Cider Polka, Bad Hair, Breaking Up Christmas

January 30 - New Tune: Burchard’s Hornpipe Jon Harkness on YouTube The Portland Collection on YT

February 13 - Review: Burchard’s Hornpipe, Valse Gisele, Stone Rag, Saratoga Hornpipe, Apple Cider Polka, Bad Hair

Feb 27 - New Tune: The Road to Errogie Adam Sutherland (composer)on YouTube / Cam St. Louis on YT

March 13 - Review: The Road to Errogie, Burchard’s Hornpipe, Valse Gisele, Stone Rag, Saratoga Hornpipe, Apple Cider Polka

March 20 - New Tune: Yellow Jig by Andrew Van Nostrand

March 27 - Review: Yellow Jig, The Road to Errogie, Burchard’s Hornpipe, Valse Gisele, Stone Rag, Saratoga Hornpipe

April 3 - New Tune: Dusty Windowsills an Irish slip jig

Fergal’s Tune a Day version is accessible. Starts at :28 seconds.

April 10 - Review: Dusty Windowsills, Yellow Jig, The Road to Errogie, Burchard’s Hornpipe, Valse Gisele, Stone Rag

April 17 - New Tune: Trip to Skye by John Whelan

Marla Fibish transfixes on mandolin Wayne Cantrell represents on fiddle Mervent reimagines with dancers Hidden Fifth is the closest to how I play it then they pair it with Far Away… doesn’t get much better then that Lastly, an English Country Dance version using the tune

NEW: Speaking of how I play it… THEN This will help later…

Please check in with me on the morning of the class if you’d like to drop-in. Limited class size.


October 3 - Bad Hair, by Rodney Miller - a spunky jig that he morphs into 4/4 swing at the end of the recording.

Bad Hair, by Rodney Miller

Bad Hair music sheet

October 24 - Apple Cider Polka, by Andy de Jarlis

Apple Cider Polka video

Apple Cider practice audio (m4a file… it IS Apple)

Apple Cider music sheet

November 14 - Saratoga Hornpipe

Saratoga Hornpipe video

December 5 - Stone Rag

Stone Rag video by Patti Kusturok