Hoedowns [includes reels and hornpipes]:
[This is not a comprehensive list of hoedowns. It is a sampling of hoedowns that are frequently played at fiddle contests.]
Angeline the Baker Dusty Miller Rock the Cradle, Joe
Arkansas Traveler Eighth of January Sailor’s Hornpipe
Bill Cheatham Fisher’s Hornpipe Saint Anne’s Reel
Billy in the Lowground Flowers of Edinburgh Sally Ann
Blackberry Blossom Forked Deer Sally Goodin’
Boil Them Cabbage Down Girl I Left Behind Salt Creek
Bonaparte’s Retreat Harvest Home Sandy River Belle
Boys of Bluehill June Apple Soldier’s Joy
Buffalo Gals Kitchen Girl Soppin’ the Gravy
Cattle in the Cane Leather Britches Speed the Plough
Chinese Breakdown Liberty Staten Island Hornpipe
Cindy Little Dutch Girl Swinging on a Gate
Cold Frosty Morning Miss McLeod’s Reel Temperance Reel
Cooley’s Reel Mississippi Sawyer Tom and Jerry
Cotton-eyed Joe Off to California Turkey in the Straw
Cripple Creek Old French Western Country
Cuckoo’s Nest Old Joe Clark Whiskey Before Breakfast
Devil’s Dream Over the Waterfall Wind that Shakes the Barley
Durang’s Hornpipe Red-haired Boy Year of Jubilo
Tune of Choice [includes jigs, polkas, marches, rag, swings, blues, ballads]:
[This is not a comprehensive list of tunes of choice. It is a sampling of tunes of choice that are frequently played at fiddle contests.]
Beaumont Rag Irish Washerwoman Black and White Rag Jenny Lind Polka Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine Jesse Polka Calgary Polka Lone Star Rag Clarinet Polka Maiden’s Prayer Colored Aristocracy Panhandle Rag Cotton Patch Rag Pig Ankle Rag Dill Pickle Rag Ragtime Annie Down Yonder Red Wing East Tennessee Blues Road to Lisdoonvarna Faded Love San Antonio Rose Five Foot Two Smash the Windows Florida Blues Snow Deer Fort Worth Stone’s Rag Golden Slippers Swallow Tail Jig Haste to the Wedding Sweet Georgia Brown Heel and Toe Polka Sweet Marie Herman’s Rag Twelfth Street Rag Huckleberry Rag Whistling Rufus I Don’t Love Nobody