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Having played the fiddle since she was knee high to a grasshopper, Beverley contributes to the Teacher's Tips column for The National Oldtime Fiddlers Association newspaper. Got a question about fiddling? Ask Beverley through her column by e-mailing her at Ask Beverley. All questions are answered personally as well as published with your permission.

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For great oldtime country music listening in central Pennsylvania be sure to tune in to Dave Pearce's "Pure As Stone Country Music Show" on Saturday mornings, 9 am to Noon (est), 88.9-FM.

For more Oldtime Music listen to Oldtime Music Station

"May your bow never warp and the hairs not fall out. May your pegs never slip nor bridge or post fall flat. And may you not forget that tune just as you are about to play it."--Wayne Cantwell, fiddler

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"Acres of Clams" genre: Americana
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	Also known as "Rosin the Bow," "Rosin the Beau," and "Lincoln and Liberty." Which goes to show you, you can't keep a good tune down.
	MP3.com CD: Learn to Fiddle - buy it! MP3.com CD: Tunes From The Family Parlor~ - buy it! CD: "Tunes from the Family Parlor"   Label: Independant Credits: Arr. by Conrad and Burgess
"Civil War Medley" genre: Folk
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	Battle Cry of Freedom/The Girl I Left Behind/Kingdom Coming - three of the most popular songs of the Civil War era
	MP3.com CD: Tunes From The Family Parlor~ - buy it! CD: Tunes from the Family Parlor   Label: Independant Credits: Arr. by Conrad and Burgess
"Shenandoah" genre: Americana
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	Viola and piano arrangement of the well known song
	MP3.com CD: Tunes From The Family Parlor~ - buy it! CD: Tunes from the Family Parlor   Label: Independant Credits: Arr. by Conrad and Burgess
"Amazing Grace" genre: Spiritual Easy Listening
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	be sure to read the story behind the song for this well know hymn played on viola and piano.
	MP3.com CD: Learn to Fiddle - buy it! MP3.com CD: Tunes From The Family Parlor~ - buy it! CD: Tunes from the Family Parlor   Label: Independant Credits: Traditional; Arr. by Conrad and Burgess
"Flowers of Edinburgh" genre: Folk
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	Fiddle and Piano
	MP3.com CD: Tunes From The Family Parlor~ - buy it! CD: Tunes from the Family Parlor   Label: Independant Credits: Arr. by Conrad and Burgess
"Put Your Little Foot" genre: Americana
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	This is the song is played as I remember my grandfather playing it for us when we were kids.
	MP3.com CD: Tunes From The Family Parlor~ - buy it! CD: Tunes from the Family Parlor   Label: Independant Credits: Arr. by Conrad and Burgess
""Barndance" Golden Slippers & more!" genre: North American
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	Golden Slippers; Oh, Susannah; Camptown Races; Turkey in the Straw - a rhythmic toss of some of the most popular oldtime tunes of the Pennsylvania mountains.
	MP3.com CD: Tunes From The Family Parlor~ - buy it! CD: Tunes from the Family Parlor   Label: Independant Credits: Oh, Susannah and Camptown Races by Stephen Foster; Arr. by Conrad and Burgess
"Alexander's Ragtime Band" genre: Musicals/Broadway
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	Viola (or is it a tuba?) in this humorous arrangemnet of the ragtime classic.
	CD: Tunes From the Family Parlor   Label: Independant Credits: Irving Berlin (1911) Arranged by Conrad and Burgess
"Gabriel's Cabin" genre: Contemporary
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	A haunting melody played on violin and piano. Loss is not without hope. Composed by Joslyn Burgess.
	MP3.com CD: Tunes From The Family Parlor~ - buy it! CD: The River Sings Her Song   Label: independant Credits: Composed by Joslyn Burgess. Arr. by Conrad and Burgess. Recorded and produced by George Graham, WVIA-FM
"LTF When Johnny Comes Marching Home" genre: North American
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	Fiddle and piano, plain and simple, unadorned version that you can listen to or play along with as you Learn to Fiddle. View the EZ Tabs for this tune as well by following the link from this page.
	MP3.com CD: Learn to Fiddle - buy it! CD: Learn to Fiddle   Label: Indie Credits: Traditional Arr. by Conrad & Burgess
"Boil That Cabbage Down & Ragtime Annie" genre: North American
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	Popular tunes in these Pennsylvania hills. Every fiddler and picker knows these inside out and backward. Boil That Cabbage Down is the first tune most fiddlers learn to "shuffle."
	MP3.com CD: Learn to Fiddle - buy it! CD: Learn to Fiddle!   Label: Madeitourselves Credits: Oldtime Traditional tunes
"Coalminers Medley - solo fiddle" genre: Folk
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	Recorded as part of the soundtrack for for "The Trial of Peter MacManus - The Last of the Molly Maguires" the medley includes three traditonal pieces: "The Lonely Miner of Wilkes-Barre" "Miner's Refrain" and "The Avondale Mine Disaster." All pieces are solo fiddle.
	CD: not available on CD yet - soundtrack recording to be released   Label: Independant Credits: Traditional - Arranged by Beverley Conrad
"Bad Sounds You Can Make w/ Your Fiddle" genre: Bluegrass
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	Here are some examples of some really rotton sounds you can make with your fiddle with tips on how to avoid them if they are not what you were trying to do.
	MP3.com CD: Learn to Fiddle - buy it! CD: Learn to Fiddle   Label: Independant Credits: Beverley Conrad

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