Traditional New England Barn Dances

Dudley Laufman & Jacqueline Laufman

Sweets of May    White Mountain Reel    White Mountain Reel Companions    The Way It Really Sounds at a Barn Dance

Fiddle Practice CDs 1, 2, 3    Dick Richardson Old Time New Hampshire Fiddler

             Where'd You Get Them Great Chunes

                                                                            Reels, Hornpipes and a Jig

          CD                            Dudley Laufman and Jacqueline Laufman with the Sugar River String Band

Released October 2006

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1. Gloucestershire Hornpipe 3:13    2. Honest John 2:59    3. Trumpet Hornpipe 3:08     4. Reel à Pitou 3:52     5. Reel Joliette 3:11

6. Christmas Hornpipe 3:15    7. Waltz Quadrille 3:59    8.  Liberation (Siegel) 3:32    9.  Money Musk 2:54    10.  Princess Royal 3:24

11.  Opera Reel 3:39    12.  Larry’s Waltz (McQuillen) 7:01         Total time: 44:33 min

Same great format as White Mountain Reel: More Dances & More Tunes

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Arrangements of Traditional Jigs and Reels by

Go to White Mountain Reel Companions page

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 The Way It Really Sounds at a Barn Dance   

Two Fiddles and the

Wind in the Timothy Barn Dance Band

Recorded live with our students and their families playing and dancing to Dudley's calls.

(63 min) (1999)

Program of tunes and dances:

1. Scotland the Brave - March

2. Haste to the Wedding - Portland Fancy
3. Off She Goes - Circle
4. Marching Thru Georgia - Square Dance
5. Golden Slippers - Virginia Reel
6. Red Wing - Paul Jones
7. Kingdom Come - Polka Contry
8. Camptown Races- Square Dance
9. Grand Salute - Quadrille
10. Cock o' the North - Lancers Reel
11. Rosin the Bow - Sir Roger de Coverly
12. Rose Tree / Ash Grove - Paul Jones
13. Pop Goes the Weasel - Contra
14. Sweets of May - Sweets of May
15. Planxty Irwin - Waltz

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Fiddle Practice  1  CD

        Jacqueline Laufman

22 traditional dance tunes, mostly jigs and reels, played two times slowly on one track and two times up to tempo on another. Cassettes available, some slight differences from CD.

1. Camptown Races - A

2. Yankee Doodle - D

3. Muffin Man - D

4. Bear Went Over the Mountain - G

5. Pop Goes the Weasel - G

6. Comin' Round the Mountain - G

7. Finnigan's Wake - D

8. La Bastringue - D

9. Golden Slippers - G, D

10. Redwing - G

11. Kingdom Come - D

12. Marching through Georgia - G

13. Amelia's Waltz - D

14. Rosin the Beau - G

15. Joys of Quebec - A

16. Monk's March - A

17. St. Hubert - D

18. Haste to the Wedding - D

19. Flop Eared Mule - D+A

20. Chinese Breakdown - D

21. Scotland the Brave - A

22. Old Danish Schottishe - G

23. Tune up: E A D G

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Fiddle Practice  2  CD

        Jacqueline Laufman

22 traditional dance tunes, mostly jigs and reels, played two times slowly on one track and two times up to tempo on another. Cassettes available, some slight differences from CD.

1. Hundred Pipers - A

2. Farewell to Whiskey - G

3. Mari's Wedding - G, D

4. Off She Goes - D

5. Liberty - D

6. Planxty Irwin - D

7. Rose Tree - D

8. Jenny's Gone to Linton - A

9. Glise a Sherbrooke - G

10. Cock o' the North - A

11. Over the Waterfall - D

12. Flowers of Edinburgh - G

13. Smash the Windows - D

14. Green Mountain Petronella - G

15. Crooked Stovepipe - G

16. Steamboat Quickstep - A

17. Road to Boston - D

18. Gaspé Reel - D

19. Larry O'Gaff - D

20. Glenn Towle - G

21. Molly in the Woods - Am

22. Ash Grove - D

23. Tune up: E A D G

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Fiddle Practice  3  CD

        Jacqueline Laufman

22 traditional dance tunes, mostly jigs and reels, played two times slowly on one track and two times up to tempo on another. Cassettes available, some slight differences from CD.

1. Girl I Left Behind Me - G

2. Starry Night to Ramble - D

3. Maggie in the Woods - G

4. Welcome Here Again - D

5. Seven Step Schottische - G

6. Hinky Dinky Parlez Vous - G

7. Bathtub Song - D

8. Keel Row - G

9. Rakes of Mallow - G

10. Southwind - G

11. Fiddlehead Reel - A

12. Sweets of May - G

13. Johnny Comes Marching Home - Am

14. Life on the Ocean Waves - G

15. Fallen Leaves - D

16. Wee Tad - A

17. Holly Berry - G

18. Grand Salute - G

19. Blue Bird Reel - D

20. Jefferson and Liberty - Am

21. Maple Sugar - D

22. Father O'Flynn - D

23. Tune up: E A D G

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Dick Richardson Old Time New Hampshire Fiddler

Dudley Laufman and Corinne Nash

(Cassette and Book)

An 80-minute selection of private, live, and studio recordings of Dick Richardson playing fiddle tunes, solo and with Ralph Page's New Hampshire Trio and New Hampshire Orchestra and The Halton Four. Halton "Dick" Richardson was a country dancing master, fiddler and prompter in Vermont and the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire from 1903 until l970. His music had a strong rhythmic drive. He inspired Bob McQuillen and influenced Dudley Laufman; Ralph Page included him among "the best." The 80-page book includes 60 photos, news clippings, chronology, stories, dances and discography. (81 min)(1992)

Side A

Scotch Hornpipe

Hand Organ Hornpipe

The Roberts / Gay Gordons

Old Danish / Old Timer Schottishes

Captain Jinks / Jacket Trimmed in Blue

Typsy Parson / My Love is But a Lassie Yet

Jingle Bells

Wrights Quickstep / Girl I Left Behind Me /

    Soldier's Joy / Chicken Reel

Money Musk

Fireman's Reel

Rickett's Hornpipe / Buffalo Gals

Buckwheat Batter

Sourwood Mountain

Haste to the Wedding / Flop-Earred Mule

Chorus Jig

Side B

Potpourri I: Wright's Quickstep / Glise a

Sherbrooke / Shake up the Coke / Piper's Lass /

Fisher's Hornpipe / Come up the Back Stairs /

Arkansas Traveler / Reilly's Own

Potpourri II: Reel of Stumpey / Hand Organ

Hornpipe / Chorus Jig / Rory O'More /

Money Musk / Climbing the Golden Stairs

Haltone Special (Life on the Ocean Wave)

Maggie in the Woods

All the Way to Galway

Maguinnis Delight

Prince Imperial Gallop

Crooked Stovepipe

Fireman's Reel

Varsouvienne

$25.00 Available from Corinne Nash, 19 Dean Ave, Bow, NH 03304

Other documentary tapes available          

Dudley Laufman

Please call or write for available documentary work.

$ 10.00

Two Fiddles cuts on other CDs

Choose Your Partners: Contra Dance & Square Dance Music of New Hampshire

This 1999 studio recording is a collection of dance tunes by six groups which were featured at the l999 Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington DC. Two Fiddles has two cuts on this CD: Larry O'Gaff as folks dance the Portland Fancy to Dudley's calls, and Maggie in the Woods for the Paul Jones. This CD is available at Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 955 L'Enfant Plaza, Suite 7300 MRC 953, Washington, DC 20560, USA. Phone: 1-800-410-9815; International phone: 202-287-7298; Fax: 202-287-7299; Email: folkways@aol.com; Website: www.si.edu/folkways. (67 min, 32 page booklet, dance calls)

Mademoiselle, Voulez-vous Danser? Franco-American Music from the New England Borderlands

Recorded 1994-98 at various gatherings, this is a collection of dance tunes and songs of French-Canadian heritage. Two Fiddles has one cut, Reel St. Hubert, on this CD which is available at Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 955 L'Enfant Plaza, Suite 7300 MRC 953, Washington, DC 20560, USA. Phone: 1- 800-410-9815; International phone: 202-287-7298; Fax: 202-287-7299; Email: folkways@aol.com; Website: www.si.edu/folkways. (57 min, 28 page booklet, map and photos)

TWO FIDDLES

Jacqueline & Dudley Laufman

PO Box 61, Canterbury, NH, USA 03224

Tel: 603-783-4719   Fax: 603-783-9578 

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Last updated: 11/14/2009

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