Southwest Fiddle Tunes: Purple Lilies, Libby Birdsong Mazurka, Pinto Beans

Neigborhood jam of Southwest fiddle tunes in Santa Monica at a labor day block party.

These three tunes are from Arizona. Traditional Southwest Fiddle styles sound a lot more Mexican (or Central European) than the better known Old-Time Southeast style.
The last two tunes are recorded on the Gu-Achi Fiddlers CD of music of the Tohono O'odham people of Southern Arizona. I believe Purple Lilies is from the Tohono O'odham repertoire as well, but I learned it from Bayou Seco (Ken Keppeler and Jeanie McLerie) of Silver City, New Mexico.

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• purple lillies
• el churrumbe
• southwest fiddle
• roland sturm
• connor vance

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That's pretty cool!