Popular Contest Tunes

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 Contests have two or three categories of music that a contestant must play.  Usually a "Hoedown" and a "Waltz", and in some contests a "Tune of Choice". We are listing some examples of which tunes are commonly played in the various categories.  We also include a link to a drive which contains sheet music of some of these tunes.

Ace of Spades, Angeline the Baker, Arkansas Traveller, Back Up and Push,  Bill Cheatem,  Billy in the Lowground, Blackberry Blossom,  Boil Them Cabbage,  Chicken Reel, Chinese Breakdown, Cotton-Eyed Joe, Cripple Creek, Devils Dream, Durango’s Hornpipe, Dusty Miller, Eighth of January, Fire On the Mountain,  Fisher’s Hornpipe, Forked Deer, Georgia Railroad, Grey Eagle, June Apple,  La Bastringue, Leather Britches, Liberty, Old French Old Joe Clark,  Ragtime Annie, Red Wing, Rights of Man, Sally Goodin’, Sally Johnson,  Soldiers Joy, Spotted Pony, Tom and Jerry, Turkey in the Straw, Wagoner,

 Woodchopper’s Reel

 Anniversary Waltz, Ashokan Farewell, Black Velvet Waltz, Cabri Waltz, Cowboy Waltz, Festival Waltz, Forty Years Ago Waltz, Goodnight Waltz, Margaret’s Waltz, Martin’s Waltz, Ookpik Waltz, Peekaboo Waltz, Si Bheag Si Mhor, Waltz Quadrille, Wednesday Night Waltz, Westphalia Waltz, Yellow Rose Waltz

 Allentown Polka, Banish Misfortune, Beaumont Rag, Clarinet Polka, Cotton Patch Rag, Dill Pickle Rag, Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down, East Tennessee Blues, Florida Blues, Haste to the Wedding, I Don’t Love Nobody, Irish Washerwoman, Jesse Polka, Pig Ankle Rag, Say Old Man, Smash the Windows, Sweet Georgia Brown, Texas Schottische, Twinkle Little Star