Please join us at our monthly jams at Gideon Welles pub (4500 N. Lincoln in Chicago). We usually meet at 7pm on the third Sunday of the month. (Check the Fiddle Club Facebook page for updated information.) You don’t have to know all of these tunes, or even a single one, to participate in our jams. But here’s a list of tunes we often play, along with some we’re planning to work on. Try out one or two, and come join us. Fiddle Club is not just for fiddlers. All instruments are welcome.
The following list contains links to a recording of each tune Click the play arrow or tune title to listen. Right click the title to download the recording (aka save link). There is a link to notes for each of the tunes, containing standard music notation, along with suggested guitar chords, and ABC notation for the tune. For pointers on using ABC notation and other helpful learning advice, check out the page on How to Use Notes & ABCs.
USA
Big Betty (aka Little Betty Brown) Notes
Coon Dog by Stephanie Coleman Notes
Daylight in the Morning by Jim Lansford Notes
Devil in a Haystack by the Indian Creek Delta Boys Notes
Walk Old Shoe, Heel Come a-Draggin’ by the Volo Bogtrotters Notes
Mexico & Latin America
Celeya Polka by Maria McCullough & Paul Tyler Notes
La Pollo Pinta by Felipe Valle & Juan Rivera Notes
Valse de los Panos by Cleofes Ortiz Notes
Scandinavia
Hamburger (Sweden) by Mary Allsopp Notes
Häst Schottische (Sweden) by Mary Allsopp Notes
Koputus Polkka (Finland) by Arto Järvelä Notes
Langdans frå Soleran (Sweden) by Tim Anderson & ScandiJam Notes
Storm (Denmark) by Kristian Bugge & Andy May Notes
Upp o Ut o Gar (Sweden) song melody by Bjärv Notes
Viktor’s Vals (Finland) by the Polka Chicks Notes
British Isles
Cuz Teahan’s Polka (Ireland) by Kathleen Keane Notes
Jamie Allen/Salmon Tales Up the Water (England) Hexham Gathering jam session Notes
Rusty Gulley (England) by Folkestra Notes
Sullivan’s Polka/Britches Full of Stitches (Ireland) Notes
Various Continents
Fiselekh Fiselekh (Klezmer) by Stuart Rosenberg Notes
Hutsulky (Ukraine) by Michi Regier Notes
Kägära-Näpupolka (Estonia) by Ain Haas Notes