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JUNE 2026 FIDDLE JAM

ByMarg Crowley

Join us on Friday, June 5 – our last Jam till September!
We’re lucky to have the incredible Cohan Lyne leading us again.

Time: 7:00 – 9:00 pm; Doors open at 6:45 pm

Cost: Members no charge; Drop In $5

Where: Wheeley Hall in the Esquimalt United Church Building (500 Admirals Road).  Enter off Lyall Street. 

Intermission snacks are welcome!

Set List

  • The Rakes of Mallow (Red Bk p 4) Key of G
  • Elegant Dancer (Attached in email, Keith’s Vol 1 p 19**) Key of C
  • Swingin’ on a Gate (Green Bk p 64) Key of G
  • Sheebeg and Sheemore (Green Bk p 32) Key of D
  • Cattle Point Jig (Attached in email, Keith’s Vol 2 p 9**) Key of A
  • Sally Gardens (Green Bk p 17) Key of D
  • Ger the Rigger (Red Bk p 52) Key of A
  • The London Hornpipe (Green Bk p 72) Key of A
  • Ashokan Farewell (VFS Website) Key of D
  • Mason’s Apron (Green Bk p 53) Key of A
  • Crooked Stovepipe (Green Bk p 29) Key of G
  • Westphalia Waltz (Green Bk p 66) Key of G
  • Tobin’s Favorite (Green Bk p 26) Key of D
  • Trip to Pender (Attached in email, Keith’s Vol 2 p 50**) Key of Am
  • Staten Island Hornpipe (Red Bk p 37) Key of D

Please note: copies of sheet music won’t be available as handouts at the Jams so please bring your own printed copies.

**tunes by Keith Malcolm (Elegant Dancer, Trip to Pender & Cattle Point Jig) are attached in the email. If you didn’t get it, send an email to vfsinfo@gmail.com to request a copy, .

Keith Malcolm is a local fiddler who has a long history of playing with and composing tunes for English Country and Contra Dance groups in Victoria.

Keith lost his right leg at a young age and has struggled with mobility all his life. A few months ago, we got the bad news that he had suffered a stroke that seriously impaired his ability to speak. He is awaiting placement in a long-term care home.

Keith played for a number of years with The Dancehall Players, a well-known, local English Country Dance Band, and with The M.T. Pockets String Band, a Victoria Contra Dance Band. He is a prolific composer of tunes and has produced two volumes of fiddle tunes with a third volume on the way. Volumes 1 & 2 of his music books, each of which contain 75 original fiddle tunes, are available for sale at the monthly jams.

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