Kitchen Ball at White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, 1838 Christian Mayr (North Carolina Museum of Art) These poems, stories, songs, quote, and art have been gathered from all over the world, partly via FIDDLE-L, an online list for fiddlers and those who love fiddle music. dhebert@crocker.com

Unk's Fiddle- Steve Burt Serenade for Ducks - Julie Lyonn Lieberman The Christmas Fiddle - Chance Shiver The Hard Part - Paul Anastasio The Artist's Task: a review of Itzhak Perlman in concert - Jack Reimer, reprinted from The Houston Chronicle Ecstasy at the Contradance - Donna Hébert Eulogy for Louis Beaudoin - Northeast Fiddlers' Association Why I Play the Fiddle - Kevin Carr The True Story of "Dickey's Discovery" - Paul Tyler - Thoughts on Lotus Dickey's Fiddling Louis Beaudoin - Philo 2000 liner notes - David Green Why I Play Franco-American Fiddle Music - Donna Hébert - a letter to fiddling folklorist Lisa Ornstein Louisy Fiddles up a Storm - Beverley Conrad - a tall tale Staying in One Key Forever - Betty Vornbrock Amazing Grace in the Churchyard - Lewis Holt The El Dorado of Groove - Donna Hébert The Old Fiddler - reprinted from NH Sentinel Sept. 27, 1882 Louis Beaudoin - Philo 2002 liner notes - Paul Wells Fiddler of the Reels - Thomas Hardy, 1896 To Sail Like a Hawk on the Wind - Charisse Lowe Waltzing with a Walker - Katie Bailey Rothschild's Fiddle - Anton Chekov Breaking the Code - Donna Hébert Fiddle Music Everywhere, Even When There's No One There! - Gus Garelick Playing with J.P Fraley - Betty Vornbrock Music for the birds - Peter Schug