Welcome to the Pegram Jam's website...
Come on in and browse around awhile. If
you're an Old Time musician like us, you should
feel right at home with the music you
find among
these pages. The purpose of this website
is to inspire the discovery, teaching
and learning
of traditional fiddle tunes available
from the bottomless well of old time
music from all over the world. We hope that playing
this music will touch your soul as it touches ours.
For six straight years we recorded
our weekly old time jams. In order
to help the musicians who attend
the jam recall the songs played, we
shared them online in mp3 files so that
everyone can download, practice
and memorize any tunes they especially
like.
We also created a downloadable booklet
of simple chord
charts for the tunes we learn to help
us remember chord patterns and arrangements.
If you're looking for listening music,
sorry; you won't find performance-quality
recordings
here,
though we think you'd agree that we do
have a really good night every now and
then. A
lot of the time,
however, you'll hear us chatting or figuring
out chords as we get started on a tune.
These recordings
are humbly intended as audio reference
files. Consider this website your handy "How does that tune
go?" resource.
It gives us great pleasure to share these
things with you as well. Most Old Time
tunes survived
the generations by being handed down,
like family heirlooms, from fiddler to
fiddler.
So in the spirit
of that tradition, we pass these musical
treasures forward.
We hope you will enjoy countless hours
of pleasure
making music
with these great tunes... we can assure
you that they never fail to satisfy us
on Tuesday
nights
out here in Pegram, Tennessee.
You will need a user name and password
to access the download features of this
site.
This is simply
for the security of our server and is
not complicated to obtain. Email Kirk
at the following address for more information: 
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