Learn to play Red Fox Waltz with Patt & Possum

This set of videos will teach you to play a basic and then a fancier version of Red Fox Waltz. This was one of the first tunes I learned from Taylor McBaine when I started playing. In keeping with that, I've also included a video of Taylor playing this classic waltz.

Bethel Missouri 1989 Main Stage Performances (audio only)

Performances of traditional Midwestern fiddling and other music recorded on the main stage at the 1989 Mid-America Old Time Fiddlers Convention. June 8-11, 1989. At Bethel, Shelby County, Missouri.

Chirps Smith Fiddle & Mandolin

Various clips of Chirps Smith playing at Bethel, MO in the 1980s and 90s.

1997 Bethel Fiddle Youth Fiddle Camp and Contest

Highlights of the annual Bethel Youth Fiddle Camp held in June each year in Bethel, Shelby County, MO.

2012 Missouri State Fair Fiddle Championship

Participants in the 2012 Missouri State Fair Fiddling Championship. The contest is held every year in August on the last day of the fair.

2014 Missouri State Fair Fiddle Championship

Participants in the 2014 Missouri State Fair Fiddling Championship. The contest is held every year in August on the last day of the fair.

Clifftop 2011 Jam Sessions

Great jams at Clifftop 2011.  Featuring: Mike Resnick on mandolin, Sean Ruprecht-Belt on banjo-uke, Ian Alexander, Steve Arkin, Rich Hibbs and Wayne Erbsen on banjo, Wayne Erbsen and Gerry Hale on mandolin, Doug Smith on guitar, Patt Plunkett on ukelele, Nick Lloyd and Kim Wheeler on bass and Geoff Seitz, Bill Stewart, Wayne Erbsen & Charlie Walden on fiddle and more!  Video by Linda DeCieri.

Bethel Youth Fiddle Camp - 1988

Collection of twenty videos from the Bethel Youth Fiddle Camp 1988.  The camp has been going strong for almost 30 years.  Its focus is regional style and repertoire of Missouri and the Midwest.  The camp takes place every June in Bethel, Shleby County, in North Central Missouri.  These videos feature mostly teaching sessions by old-time Missouri fiddlers Vesta Johnson, Taylor McBaine, Bob Walsh, Kelly Jones and Dean Johnston and represent regional Missouri fiddle styles from the Ozarks, Little Dixie and North Missouri. All videos were recorded by folklorist Amy Skillman.

Nolan Boone - Audrain County Fiddler NEW RECORDING RELEASE!

Harrietville Fiddle Workshop - Charlie Walden

Set of 5 video segments of a workshop I gave in Harrietville, VIC, back in 2008.  Plenty of good playing advice as well as some tunes are taught.  The flies were particularly bad that year, as they can be in rural Australia, so there is a lot of swatting and hand waving.  A few even got swallowed!

1989 Bethel Fiddle Camp and Contest

Various clips from the 1989 Bethel Youth Fiddle Camp.

1983 Missouri State Fiddle Championship - Hickman High School, Columbia.

Performance at the 1983 Missouri State Fiddling Championship held at Hickman High School in Columbia on September 3, 1983. 

Open Division 2016 IL State Fiddle Contest

Open Division & call-back round to determine 2016 State Fiddle Champion. Highlights of the 2016 Illinois State Fiddle Championship held each October in Effingham, IL. This event happened on October 16, 2016.

1984 WOS Radio Reunion and Fiddle Contest

On October 27, 1984, old-time fiddlers and their accompanists from all over Missouri gathered in the State Capitol Building for an historic reunion and fiddle contest to commemorate WOS radio, which broadcast from the Capitol in the 1920-30s.

Fiddle Tunes 1997 Concert - Nile Wilson, Charlie Walden, Rich Levine and...

Concert at Fiddle Tunes, Port Townsend Washington, in 1997.  Accompanied by Patt Plunkett on piano and Rich Levine on guitar.  Nile Wilson was a traditional fiddler from Bucklin in north central Missouri.

May 2015 Child Grove Dance With Geoff Seitz & Charlie Walden - fiddles

From the Child Grove regular Sunday dance and the Monday Club in Webster Groves, MO, May 3, 2015. With Geoff Seitz & Charlie Walden - fiddles, Dennis Buckhannon - guitar, Patt Plunkett - piano and Andy Gribble on bass. Lauren Peckman calling.

Charlie Walden Birthday Bash - THE MAIN EVENT

Video of the entire stream from my birthday bash on January 14, 2017.

Learn Taylor McBaine's Red Fox Waltz

Taylor McBaine (center) yukking it up with Travis Inman 

and Wes Brown at the contest in Bethel, MO, back in 1986

Red Fox Waltz was one of the first tunes I learned. Taylor McBaine of Columbia, Missouri, taught it to me and I still play it today. It's in the key of D and is not that hard to get on to. 

The playlist below consists of highlights from a recent workshop I did at the KDHX St. Louis Folk School. The various videos take you through a demonstration, then learning a basic version, some fancy add-ons and finally a group play along with Patt Plunkett on piano. 

You can get a copy of the music at: 

http://www.charliewalden.com/Dots.htm

Patt & Possum in Edinburgh

March of 2015 saw us in Scotland and spending a few days in Edinburgh before heading north to the Niel Gow Festival in Dunkeld and Birnam. It was a overcast most of the time we were there with drizzle and a stiff breeze, but still better than Chicago in March. Needless to say you need to layer-up, wear wool socks and good walking shoes as this is a walking town if there ever was one. Enjoy the pics below.

Patt on the Royal Mile looking up hill to Edinburgh Castle

Night scene on the Royal Mile

All bundled up!

View from the Castle

Edinburgh Castle (next several)

There is a really nice military museum in the Castle, 

which is still an active military post.

Duke of Earl

Sir Walter Scott Memorial

National Museum of Scotland - Worth the Visit

Jackie Stewart's Formula Car!

Head Removal Devices

Steam Engine - Invented by Scot James Watt

Niel Gow Exhibit

Made in Scotland Motor Car

Curling Stone

Scottish Parliament Building - Very Interesting Architecture

 Holyrood Palace - at the other end of the Royal Mile

Arthur Seat - the trudge

Learn to Play Vee Latty's "Fever in the South."

Learn this great old hoe-down from Vee Latty, which originated Callaway County in Central Missouri and is likely part of the old repertoire from Missouri's Black fiddlers. Latty, with his wife Marie on slide guitar, performed over WOS Radio in Jefferson City in the 1920s.

Learn the tune from these workshop videos...

Get the tune transcription here.

Listen to Vee and Marie play Fever in the South.