Thursday, May 1 • PRESCHOOL MUSICAL STORYTIME • 10:30-11:15am, with fiddler Gretchen Koehler. The Tauny Center, Canton, NY

Saturday, May 3 • COMMUNITY JAM & POTLUCK • 11am-1pm, w/Gretchen Koehler & Jeremy Rusu, Saranac Lake Free Library, Saranac Lake, NY

Saturday, May 10 • Intro to OLD-TIME JAMMING 101 • 11:00-noon. w/ Gretchen Koehler. Free! The Tauny Center, Canton, NY

Saturday, May 10 • Intro to OLD-TIME JAMMING 101 • 1:30-2:30. w/ Gretchen Koehler. Free! The Potsdam Public Library, Potsdam, NY

Monday, May 12 • MADSTOP FIDDLER OPEN REHEARSAL • 4:30-6:30. Free! Location, TBA, Potsdam, NY

Thursday, May 15 • PLAY-ALONG, ON-AIR JAM • 3:00-5:00. [NCPR], String Fever hosted by Barb Heller & guest host Gretchen Koehler.

Sunday, May 18 • WORLD FIDDLE DAY COMMUNITY JAM & POTLUCK • 2:00-4:00pm. w/Gretchen Koehler & The Madstop Fiddlers. Potsdam Public Library, Potsdam, NY

••THIS YEAR’S FEATURED JAM TUNES••

Join us for an “intro to jamming” workshop featuring a short list of tunes ahead of the World Fiddle Day Celebration. The TAUNY Center will host a Old Time Jam workshop, Saturday, May 10 from 11-noon, and The North Country Fiddlers will host another Old Time Jam workshop on Saturday, May 10 from 1:30-2:30 at the Potsdam Public Library, Potsdam, NY. Musicians can learn or brush up on the tunes below. These sessions are free and open to folks of all ages with basic proficiency on their acoustic instrument. Musicians are welcome to play by ear, or use the sheet music and chord charts provided at the workshop. 

Ashokan Farewell (D), Chase Me Charlie/Cock of the North (A), Cindy D, Faded Love (D), Flop Eared Mule (D/A), Gaspé Reel (D), Hundred Pipers (A), Jessica Waltz (D), Liza Jane (A), Off She Goes (D), Old Joe Clark (A), Over the Waterfall (D), Red Wing (G), Road to Lisdoonvarna (Em), Tennessee Waltz (D), Boil ‘em Cabbage ‘down (A)

Over the Waterfall (sheet music)

Road to Lisdoonvarna (sheet music)

••50 JAM TUNES 2025••

Starting with The North Country Fiddlers “100 Good Tunes” list, my student, The Madstop Fiddlers selected 50 to be played at at our epic World Fiddle Day Community Jam. Hope you can join us on May 18 in Potsdam, NY! The tunes in bold are our featured tunes (sheet music & audios above), and audios for the rest (and more!) are at the bottom of this page.

Angelina Baker, Arran Boat Song, Ashokan Farewell, La Bastringue, Black Velvet Waltz, Boil ‘em Cabbage ‘down, Boys of Bluehill, Buck Fever Rag, Cindy, Cock of the North, Country Waltz, Devil’s Dream, Down Yonder, Faded Love, Flop Eared Mule, Flowers of Edinburgh, Gary Owen, Gaspé Reel, Golden Slippers, Hundred Pipers, Irishman’s Heart to the Ladies, Jessica Waltz, Joys of Quebec, Liberty, Liza Jane, Log Driver’s Waltz, Maid Behind the Bar, Maple Sugar, Maytime Swing, Miss McLeod’s Reel, Morrison’s Jig, Off To California, Off She Goes, Old Joe Clark, Over The Waterfall, Red Wing, Red Haired Boy, Road to Boston, Road to Lisdoonvarna, Rock Valley Jig, St. Anne’s Reel, St. Antoine, Sherbrooke Reel, Soldier’s Joy, Spootiskerry, Smash The Window, Snow Deer, Swallowtail Jig, Tennessee Waltz, Whiskey Before Breakfast, Westphalia Waltz

PAST WORLD FIDDLE DAY HIGHLIGHTS!

TUNE BANK • AUDIO FILES

Below are basic versions of tunes played by members of The Madstop Fiddlers • Koehler’s Fiddle School ! The occasional link to sheet music indicates tunes we’ve shared with the community for World Fiddle Day in the past.

REELS

HORNPIPES

JIGS

WALTZES • SLOW TUNES

TUNE BANK • VIDEO FILES

Follow The Fiddlers’s POV (Gretchen Koehler) on Instagram, TicTok, and You Tube Shorts for a view down the fingerboard of many popular fiddle tunes.

Thank you to our local organizations for the support of World Fiddle Day!!!