Bluegrass and Irish harmonica is a beautiful style, based on traditional fiddle tunes. These are featured on my CD, "Black Mountain Harmonica". You can download mp3s of the music, which are

"all done so well that I think I will retire my traditional fiddle tune albums" (Harmonica Happenings, Winter, 2004).

Fiddle tunes underpin Irish and American traditional music. While these tunes are often adapted to other instruments, such as mandolin, guitar and whistle, the harmonica is not commonly used. This page is a resource for harmonica players (and others) interested in this style, and outlines my approach to it.

Links to other harmonica players interested in traditional tunes, and some methods they use, are below. My approach has been to retune the harmonicas, to a scale which more easily fits the fast tempos needed for many of these tunes. More details about my approach, as well as material for beginning and advanced players, are outlined in the Harmonica Lessons.