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Tune Sources
If you want to practice before the Festival, in addition to any local jams you might want to join, there are other options:
ALL of the tunes for this year's Festival Orchestra can be HEARD on
a CD "The Montville Project:
51 Essential Contra Dance Tunes". The CD will be officially released
AT the Festival, and will be available after that for $15 plus shipping.
But ... you can get it now for $13 ppd as special pre-festival musician's
price. Send check or money order with order to:
George Fowler
The Montville Project
612 Reach Rd.
Brooklin ME 04616
Notation for the tunes that will be used by the Orchestra may be found in:
The New England Fiddler's Repertoire
by Randy Miller
1st edition copyright 1983
2nd edition copyright 2003 (includes guitar chords)
Fiddlecase Books
17 North Road
Alstead, NH 03602
(no ISBN number for either edition)
Except for the Joys of Quebec, which can be searched online at JC's ABC Tunefinder and probably plenty of other sites as well as some of the books below, and Amelia, which can be found in
The Waltz Book I
collected and edited by Bill Matthiesen
copyright 1992
ISBN 0-9633787-0-8
More Excellent Fiddle Tune Books
All of which are in use by many fiddlers and jammers in
our region.
The Portland Collection
by Susan Songer with Clyde Curley
copyright 1997
ISBN 0-9657476-0-3
The Portland Collection 2
by Susan Songer with Clyde Curley
copyright 2005
ISBN 0-965747-1-1
The Fiddler's Fake Book
by David Brody
copyright 1983
Oak Publications
ISBN 0-8256-0238-6
If you can't get these through your local music or bookstore, you can order them from the Country Dance and Song Society.