Fiddle Music

Fiddlers' Contest

As the local historians tell it, fiddling first came to this small town in Idaho in 1863 when the Logan family established a way station on the banks of the Weiser river. Emigrants driving their covered wagons on the Oregon Trail would stop there for rest, relaxation and fiddle music. As for organized competitions, newspaper accounts of fiddle contests date back as far as 1914.
Every year since 1963 fiddlers' the world over have been keeping the third full week in June reserved for the National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest held in Weiser, Idaho. Their common bond is a love of traditional American music and it brings nearly ten thousand people annually to this small town in the sagebrush country of the Snake River and Columbia Plateau.
Nearly an hour of great fiddle music!

National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest 1995 ~ Fiddle Music: by Various Fiddlers'

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Featuring:

Jack Link
1. Announcements
Danita Hartz
2. Doc Harris Hornpipe
3. Old South Waltz
4. CaneBreak
Tony Ludiker
5. Sally Goodin
6. Gardinia Waltz
7. Nowmaan Solomon's Rag
John Nyen
8. Done Gone
9. Chancellor's Waltz
10. Crafton's Blues
Colt Tipton
11. Sally Johnson
12. Wednesday Night Waltz
13. Hotfoot
Dan Overholt
14. Durang's Hornpipe
15. Forty Years Ago Waltz
16. A Texas Serenade
Matthew Hartz
17. Chuck In The Bush
18. Roxanne's Waltz
19. Red Apple Rag
Mark Ralph
20. Say Old Man
21. Midnight Waltz
22. Beaumont Rag
Joseph Smart
23. Choctaw
24. Paula's Waltz
25. I don't Love Nobody
Jack Link
26. Announcements
Danita Hartz
27. Brilliancy
28. Luzinda Waltz
29. Clarinet Polka
Tony Ludiker
30. Peaches and Honey
31. Carnival Waltz
32. T and T
Colt Tipton
33. Tug Boat
34. Morning Star Waltz
35. Wild Fiddler's Rag
Dan Overholt
36. Gray Eagle
37. Yellow Rose Waltz
38. Don't Let The Deal Go Down
Matthew Hartz
39. Dusty Miller
40. Velvet's Polka
41. Allentown Polka
Jack Link
42. Playoff Announcement
Dan Overholt
43. Apple Blossom
Danita Hartz
44. Tom & Jerry
Jack Link
45. Winners Announcements