Oisín McAuley and Brittany Haas: “The Spey in Spate”
By: Scott Nygaard
March 1, 2024
Brittany Haas plays a traditional reel with one of today’s premier Irish fiddlers.
Joe K. Walsh and Scott Nygaard: “Dawg’s Waltz”
By: Dan Gabel
September 10, 2022
Peghead Nation mandolin and guitar instructors play a David Grisman and Jerry Garcia tune.
Joe K. Walsh and Bruce Molsky: “Walk Along John to Kansas”
By: Dan Gabel
June 10, 2022
Exclusive Peghead Nation video of our mandolin and fiddle instructors playing a great old-time tune at Wintergrass 2022.
Evie Ladin: “John Brown’s Dream”
By: Dan Gabel
February 19, 2022
Peghead Nation Clawhammer Banjo instructor plays a great old-time tune.
John Reischman: “Grey Eagle”
By: Dan Gabel
February 12, 2021
The mandolin master plays a solo arrangement of the popular old-time fiddle tune.
Tags: Fiddle Tunes, Mandolin
Evie Ladin and Emily Mann: “Icy Mountain”
By: Scott Nygaard
December 22, 2020
Peghead Nation Clawhammer Banjo teacher plays an old-time favorite with one of the fiddlers who appears on Evie’s album of traditional tunes, “Riding the Rooster.”
Bruce Molsky: “Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom”
By: Dan Gabel
November 3, 2020
Peghead Nation fiddle teacher plays a popular old-time tune, which is different from the tune of a similar name that is often played in bluegrass circles.
Tags: Fiddle, Fiddle Tunes
Evie Ladin: “Got No Honey Babe Now”
By: Dan Gabel
July 17, 2020
Peghead Nation’s Clawhammer Banjo teacher plays and sings an old-time song from North Carolina fiddler Frank Blevins.
Evie Ladin: “Lonesome John”
By: Dan Gabel
March 10, 2020
Peghead Nation’s Clawhammer Banjo teacher plays and sings an old-time song from Kentucky fiddler John Salyer.
Chad Manning: “Road to Columbus”
By: Dan Gabel
February 28, 2020
Peghead Nation fiddle instructor plays the Bill Monroe favorite.
Joe K. Walsh and Scott Nygaard: “Watson’s Blues”
By: Dan Gabel
February 13, 2020
Peghead Nation mandolin and guitar instructors play a tune that Bill Monroe wrote and named after one of his favorite guitarists, Doc Watson.
John Reischman: “Little Pine Siskin”
By: Dan Gabel
September 10, 2019
Peghead Nation’s Melodic Mandolin Tunes instructor plays a solo version of an original tune he recorded on his stellar “Walk Along John” album.
Tags: Fiddle Tunes, Mandolin
Evie Ladin and Emily Mann: “Merriweather”
By: Dan Gabel
April 3, 2019
Peghead Nation’s Clawhammer Banjo teacher plays a banjo and fiddle version of an old-time favorite with the fiddler and multi-instrumentalist from the folk duo Paper Wings.
Derk’s Discoveries: When Picking Is Your Passion
By: Derk Richardson
March 6, 2019
Tyler Grant and Robin Kessinger infuse their acoustic guitar flatpicking duets with unbridled joy.
Joe K. Walsh and Scott Nygaard: “Goodbye Liza Jane”
By: Dan Gabel
February 4, 2019
Peghead Nation mandolin and guitar instructors play an old-time favorite.
Bobby Britt and Brittany Haas: “Ways of the World”
By: Scott Nygaard
December 12, 2018
Bobby Britt is a young bluegrass and old-time fiddler from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, currently playing fiddle in the up and coming bluegrass band Town Mountain, which won an International Bluegrass Music Association Momentum award.
John Reischman and the Jaybirds: “Little Pine Siskin”
By: Dan Gabel
October 30, 2018
Peghead Nation mandolin instructor plays an original tune with his band at the IBMA World of Bluegrass festival.
Monroe Mondays: “Stoney Lonesome”
By: Tristan Scroggins
October 29, 2018
Another Bill Monroe Tune from the famed Road to Columbus.
John Reischman and the Jaybirds: “Hop High My Lulu Gal”
By: Dan Gabel
October 4, 2018
Peghead Nation mandolin instructor plays a traditional favorite with his band at the IBMA World of Bluegrass festival.
Monroe Mondays: “Scotland”
By: Tristan Scroggins
September 17, 2018
Bill Monroe wrote this tune as a twin-fiddle homage to the sound of Highland bagpipes
Evie Ladin: “Polly Put the Kettle On”
By: Dan Gabel
August 15, 2018
Peghead Nation Clawhammer Banjo instructor plays a great old-time tune.
Harmonic Tone Revealers: “Sail Away Ladies”
By: Dan Gabel
August 4, 2018
Peghead Nation instructors John Reischman, Sharon Gilchrist, and Scott Nygaard play the Kenny Baker version of this traditional favorite.
Monroe Mondays: “Ozark Rag”
By: Tristan Scroggins
July 16, 2018
One of the many tunes Bill Monroe wrote in his later years.
Monroe Mondays: “Northern White Clouds”
By: Tristan Scroggins
February 26, 2018
The toilet paper song.
Patrick McGonigle and Brittany Haas: “Whiskey Before Breakfast”
By: Scott Nygaard
February 13, 2018
Fiddle duet on the bluegrass jam-session favorite.
Hawktail: “Abbzug”
By: Dan Gabel
January 23, 2018
Peghead Nation fiddle instructor Brittany Haas plays an original tune with her talent-packed quartet.
Monroe Mondays: “The Lloyd Loar”
By: Tristan Scroggins
January 8, 2018
A tune of rebirth, named by the man who repaired Bill Monroe’s iconic mandolin.
Joe K. Walsh and Scott Nygaard: “East Tennessee Blues”
By: Dan Gabel
November 22, 2017
Peghead Nation mandolin and guitar instructors play the popular old-time tune at our first Mandolin Camp.
Evie Ladin: “Indian Ate a Woodchuck”
By: Scott Nygaard
November 7, 2017
Peghead Nation Clawhammer Banjo instructor rocks a great old-time dance tune.
Monroe Mondays: “Call of the Shepherd”
By: Tristan Scroggins
October 19, 2017
The least popular tune of the batch.
Monroe Mondays: “Monroe’s Hornpipe”
By: Tristan Scroggins
August 7, 2017
A jam standard on a non-standard instrument.
Monroe Mondays: “My Father’s Footsteps”
By: Tristan Scroggins
July 17, 2017
Paternalistic Picking from the Father of Bluegrass
Monroe Mondays: “The Tanyards”
By: Tristan Scroggins
July 3, 2017
A twisting tale of a Bill Monroe original he never personally recorded.
Monroe Mondays: “Blue Goose”
By: Tristan Scroggins
June 19, 2017
An unusual fiddle tune from the bluegrass master.
Molsky’s Mountain Drifters: “John Brown’s Dream”
By: Scott Nygaard
March 31, 2017
Peghead Nation old-time fiddle teacher plays the traditional favorite with his powerful trio.
Brittany Haas: “Willow Creek”
By: Scott Nygaard
February 8, 2017
Peghead Nation’s Fiddle Styles instructor plays a favorite old-time tune.
Brittany Haas on “A Prairie Home Companion”: “Fiddle Tune Medley”
By: Dan Gabel
December 13, 2016
Peghead Nation fiddle instructor plays in the new house band for the popular radio show, now hosted by mandolin master Chris Thile.
Katie McNally and Brittany Haas: “Cape Breton Medley”
By: Scott Nygaard
July 19, 2016
Fiddle duo plays “Lime Hill Strathspey” and “Tune for Carl.”
Joe K. Walsh and Grant Gordy: “Cheyenne”
By: Scott Nygaard
April 26, 2016
Peghead Nation mandolin instructor Joe K. Walsh plays the Bill Monroe classic with his Mr. Sun bandmate.
Bruce Molsky and Joe Walsh: “L&N Rag”
By: Scott Nygaard
March 29, 2016
Peghead Nation instructors play an old-time fiddle rag.
Bruce Molsky: “Walking in the Parlor”
By: Scott Nygaard
August 27, 2015
Peghead Nation Old-Time Fiddle instructor Bruce Molsky has countless great old dance tunes in his repertoire. They may have started out as simple tunes to keep the dancers’ feet moving, but Bruce turns them into self-contained solo fiddle pieces, as heard in this performance of “Walking in the Parlor,” recorded in the studio when Bruce was taping his Old-Time Fiddle course lessons.To learn great old-time fiddle tunes like this from Bruce, enroll in his Old-Time Fiddle course on Peghead Nation today.
Bruce Molsky: “Glory in the Meeting House”
By: Scott Nygaard
July 8, 2015
Peghead Nation old-time fiddle instructor with a spirited rendition of the Kentucky tune.
Tristan Clarridge and Brittany Haas: “George Booker”
By: Scott Nygaard
July 1, 2015
Tags: Fiddle, Fiddle Tunes
John Mailander and Brittany Haas: “Road to Columbus”
By: Scott Nygaard
June 9, 2015
Fiddle duet on Bill Monroe’s classic tune.
Bruce Molsky: “Bonaparte’s Retreat”
By: Scott Nygaard
May 28, 2015
Peghead Nation old-time fiddle instructor plays William Stepp’s version of the classic tune.
Chad Manning: “St. Anne’s Reel”
By: Dan Gabel
March 10, 2015
Peghead Nation fiddle instructor launches Bluegrass Fiddle course.
John Reischman, Sharon Gilchrist, and Scott Nygaard: “Sail Away Ladies”
By: Dan Gabel
February 10, 2015
Tristan Clarridge and Brittany Haas, “Julianne Johnson”
By: Scott Nygaard
November 10, 2014
Tags: Fiddle, Fiddle Tunes
