VFO Practice Tunes

The Vermont Fiddle Orchestra‘s Spring 2025 Concert tunes: 

Rehearsals for the Spring Concert start up in early January and as Music Director Peter MacFarlane intoduces and teaches new tunes each week they will be posted here weekly.

Note: An “Ear tune” is taught each week by Assistant Director Susan Reid, but without sheet music, as an exercise in learning tunes 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.

Week 7:

• Ed’s Gladda (Ear tune)

Week 8:

• Shaking Down the Acorns (Ear tune)

Week 9:

• Bussen (Ear tune)