VFO Practice Tunes

The Vermont Fiddle Orchestra‘s Spring 2025 Concert tunes: 
The Spring Concert was performed to enthusiastic applause Sunday afternoon, April 6 in Randolph, VT.  Tunes played are listed below, linked to their pages on this site.   A full length concert recording is planned and will be posted here when available.  The next concert will be its Fall Concert in early December and tunes being prepared for it will again be posted here starting in September.

Meanwhile, smaller ensembles of VFO players traditionally perform at a variety of events around the state during spring and summer.  Tunes for any such events will be posted here as they are scheduled.

Spring 2025 Tunes:

Note: An “Ear tune” is taught at each rehearsal by Assistant Director Susan Reid without sheet music as an exercise in learning by ear, a valuable skill especially in jams.

Week 1:

• Da Guizer’s March
• In Memory of Herbie MacLeod
• Red House
• Waltz of the Stoves (Ear tune)

Week 2:

• Reel des Acadiens
• Hedgehope Hill
• The Old Favourite
• Hole in the Hedge (Ear tune)

Week 3:

• An Irishman’s Heart to the Ladies
• Hen Ferchetan
• The Battle of the Somme
• Free and Easy, aka Mulqueeney’s (Ear tune)

Week 4:

• Lass o’ Patie’s Mill
• Sid Baglole’s
• Tigh-na-Gorm
• Old Aunt Jenny With Her Nightcap On (Ear tune)

Week 5:

• Brollopsmarsch till Åsa & Anders
• On the Danforth
• Calum’s Road
• Duck River (Ear tune)

Week 6:

• Kingussie Flower
• Berkeley Reel
• Lament For The Death Of The Rev. Archie Beaton
• Waterbound (Ear tune. Note: Susan will teach the A major version.)

Weekly until the Spring Concert, April 6, putting together arrangements, final polishing. Ear tunes continued to be taught taught at each rehearsal.

Week 7:

• Ed’s Gladda (Ear tune)

Week 8:

• Shaking Down the Acorns (Ear tune)

Week 9:

• Bussen (Ear tune)

Week 10:

• Flyg Polska (Ear tune)

Week 11:

• Snow Squall (Ear tune)