SELECTED repetoire list:
The following list is by no means complete; it provides a sampling of some of our staple songs,
as well as some special requests from past events. We are happy to honor nearly any special request.

Newgrass Instrumentals:

Beacon (Ross Martin)
Big Country (Bela Fleck)
Eye of the Hurricane (David Grier)
Leaves Fall (Chris Thile)
Land's End (Tim O'Brien)
The Landing (Bela Fleck)
Short Trip Home (Edgar Meyer)
Ode to a Butterfly (Nickel Creek)
Overgrown Waltz (Bela Fleck)
Slopes (Bela Fleck)
Gator Strut (Mike Marshall)
Homer the Roamer (John Hartford)
Song for a Winter's Night (Edgar Meyer)
Spanish Point (Bela Fleck)
Sunset Road (Bela Fleck)
When Joy Kills Sorrow (Bela Fleck)
Wilson Bridge (Matt Flinner)

Bluegrass and Americana
Standards


Ashokan Farewell
Beauty of My Dreams
Blue Moon of Kentucky
Blue Ridge Cabin Home
Clinch Mountain Backstep
Colleen Malone
Country Roads
Eight More Miles To Louisville
El Paso
Faded Love
Folsom Prison Blues
Fox on the Run
Freeborn Man
Gentle on my Mind
Ginseng Sullivan
Goodnight Irene
Handsome Molly
Hard to Love
High On a Mountain
Hobo Song
How Mountain Girls Can Love
I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky
In the Gravel Yard
I Wonder Where you Are Tonight
I've Endured
John Hardy
Kentucky Waltz
Little Georgia Rose
Little Maggie
Lonesome Fiddle Blues
Love Please Come Home
Man of Constant Sorrow
Midnight Moonlight
Molly and Tenbrooks
Nellie Kane
Nine Pound Hammer
One Hundred Years From Now
Pardon Me
Pig in a Pen
Ring of Fire
Rocky Top
Rosa Lee McFall
Salty Dog Blues
Shady Grove
Sitting On Top of the World
Steam Powered Aereo Plane
Tennessee Stud
The Old Home Place
Uncle Pen
Whiskey Before Breakfast
You Don't Know My Mind

Classical String Quartets:

Bach - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
(from Chorale from Cantata BMV 147)
Bach - Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007
I. Prélude
Bach - Sheep May Safely Graze
(from "Hunting Cantata" BMV 208)
Clarke - Trumpet Tune (aka Purcell's Trumpet Tune)
Corelli - Violin Sonata Op. 5, #9
(Allegro, poco moderato)
Handel - Alla Hornpipe
(from "Water Music: Suite in F major)
Handel - Concerto Grosso Op. 6, #12
(Aria - Larghetto e piano)
Mendelssohn - Wedding March
(from "A Midsummer Night's Dream")
Mozart - Serenade #13 for Strings, K. 525
("Eine Kleine Nachtmusik")
Mozart - Wedding March from "Marriage of Figaro"
Pachelbel - Canon in D major
Respighi - Ancient Airs and Dances
(Suite III, #1 - Ignoto: Italiana)
Saint-Saents - Le Cygne (The Swan)
Vivaldi - Spring:Allegro from The Four Seasons
Wagner - Bridal Chorus from "Lohengrin"

Jewish / Eastern European:

Hava Nagilah
Mazel Tov
Dovid Melech
Ki Va Moed
Avenu Shalom Aleichem
Ya'Aseh Shalom
Dodi Li
NY Psycho Freylekhs (Klezmatics)
Mezinke
Der Gasn Nigun
Der Heyser Bulgar
Tantz, Tantz, Yidelkh
Kalinka
Ederlezi
Sunrise Sunset

Irish Songs

Ireland's Green Shore
The Wild Rover
The Irish Rover
I'll Tell Me Ma
Leaving of Liverpool
Newry Highwayman
Nancy Whiskey
Raggle Taggle Gypsy
Star of County Down
Jolly Beggerman
Whiskey in the Jar
Courtin' in the Kitchen
All For Me Grog
Auld Triangle
Galway Girl
Beggerman
Lakes of Ponchartrain
McIlhatton
Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore
Black Velvet Band
She Moved Through the Fair
Streams of Whiskey
Fields of Athenry
Donegal Danny
Rare Old Mountain Dew
Danny Boy
Fiddler's Green
Do You Love an Apple
Whisky, You're the Devil
Rare Old Mountain Dew
Dirty Old Town
Fairytale of New York

Kids Songs

This Land is Your Land
Ain't No Bugs On Me
Puff the Magic Dragon
Yellow Submarine
This Little Light
Oh Susanna
Shortenin' Bread
Camptown Races
She'll Be Comin' Round the Mtn.
Rainbow Connection
I've Been Working on the Railroad
Hot Corn Cold Corn
I Know An Old Lady

Rock/Pop Cover Songs
(performed 'Astrograss' style)


Africa (Toto)
Airline to Heaven (Wilco/Woody Guthrie)
All I Want is You [from 'Juno'] (Barry Lewis Polistar)
All You Need is Love (Beatles)
America (Simon & Garfunkel)
Amie (Pure Prairie League)
Anything You Want, You Got It (Roy Orbison)
Atlantic City (Bruce / The Band)
Baby, Now That I've Found You
(Allison Krauss/The Foundations)
Bad Romance (Lady Gaga)
Billie Jean (Michael Jackson)
Blame it on the Boogie (Jackson 5)
Blue Suede Shoes (Elvis)
Boogie On Reggae Woman (Stevie Wonder)
Book of Love (Magnetic Fields)
Box of Rain (Grateful Dead)
Bright Side of the Road (Van Morrison)
Build Me Up Buttercup
Burnin' Down the House (Talking Heads)
Bye Bye Love (Everly Brothers)
California Stars (Wilco/Billy Bragg)
Can't Get U Out of My Head (K. Minogue)
Case of You (Joni Mitchell)
Catch The Wind (Donovan)
The Cave (Mumford and Sons)
'Cause I Love You (Johnny Cash/June Carter)
Cecilia (Simon and Garfunkle)
Chicken Fried (Zac Brown Band)
Chimbley Sweep (Decemberists)
Closer to Fine (Indigo Girls)
Come On Eileen (Dixie's Midnight Runners)
Comes a Time (Neil Young)
Could You Be Loved (Bob Marley)
Crazy (Patsy Cline)
Danny's Song (Loggins & Messina)
Dead Flowers (Rolling Stones)
Do You Realize? (Flaming Lips)
Don't Stop Believin' (Journey)
Down By the Water (Decemberists)
Emmylou (First Aid Kit)
Enjoy the Silence (Depeche Mode)
Fat Bottomed Girls (Queen)
Father and Daughter (Paul Simon)
First Day of My Life (Bright Eyes)
Fly (Nick Drake)
Forever in Blue Jeans (Neil Diamond)
Freedom '90 (George Michael)
Friend of the Devil (Dead)
Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon (Neil Diamond)
God Only Knows (Beach Boys)
Golden (My Morning Jacket)
Got to Get You Into My Life
Happy (Rolling Stones)
Happy Together (Turtles)
Harvest Moon (Neil Young)
Here Comes Your Man (The Pixies)
Hesitating Beauty (Wilco/Billy Bragg)
High Tide or Low Tide (Bob Marley)
Home (Edward Sharpe)
Ho Hey (Lumineers)
Hoodoo Voodoo (Wilco)
How Sweet It Is (Marvin Gaye)
I Don't Feel Like Dancing (Scissor Sisters)
I Got You At the end of the century (Wilco)
I Hope I Don't Fall in Love With You
(Tom Waits)
I Saw Her Standing There (Beatles)
I'm Looking Through You (Beatles)
I've Just Seen A Face (Beatles)
I Want to Dance With Somebody (Whitney)
I Want To Hold Your Hand (Beatles)
I Will Wait (Mumford and Sons)
If I Had a Boat (Lyle Lovett)
If I Needed You (Townes Van Zandt)
If I Were a Carpenter (Johnny Cash/June Carter)
If Not For You (Dylan)
In My Life (Beatles)
In Spite of Ourselves (John Prine)
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (Bob Dylan)
I'll Follow You Into the Dark (Death Cab)
I'm the Man Who Loves You (Wilco)
In a Big Country (Big Country)
Island in the Stream (Dolly/Kenny)
January Wedding (Avett Brothers)
Jesus, Etc. (Wilco)
June Hymn (Decemberists)
Just Like Heaven (The Cure)
Kids Don't Stand a Chance (Vampire Weekend)
Kiss (Prince)
Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
Lay Lady Lay (Bob Dylan)
Let's Give 'Em Something 2 Talk About(Bonnie Rait)
Life During Wartime (Talking Heads)
Like a Prayer (Madonna)
Little Lion Man (Mumford and Sons)
Live To Tell (Madonna)
Little Talk (Of Monsters and Men)
Littlest Birds (Be Good Tanyas/Jolie Holland)
Long Time Gone (Dixie Chicks)
Look at Miss Ohio (Gillian Welch)
Looking Out My Back Door (Creedence)
Love Vigilantes (New Order)
Love Train (The O'Jays)
Lovin' In Your Baby's Eyes (Taj Mahal)
Material Girl (Madonna)
Me and Bobby McGee (Janis Joplin)
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
Mushaboom (Feist)
No Expectations (Rolling Stones)
Northern Sky (Nick Drake)
Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da (Beatles)
Ooh La La (The Faces)
Our House (CSNY)
Postcard from Italy (Beirut)
Power of Two (Indigo Girls)
Proud Mary
Pump up the Jam (Technotronic)
Pumped Up Kicks (Foster the People)
Rag Mama Rag (The Band)
Rain (Beatles)
Raspberry Beret (Prince)
Scarlet Begonias (Grateful Dead)
Shake it Off (Taylor Swift)
She's Got the Look (Roxette)
Signed Sealed Delivered (Stevie Wonder)
So Lonely (The Police)
Songbird (Fleetwood Mac)
Soul Meets Body (Death Cab For Cutie)
Such Great Heights (Postal Service)
Sugar Magnolia (Grateful Dead)
Sugaree (Grateful Dead)
Sussudio (Phil Collins)
Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond)
Sweet Child of Mine (Guns 'n Roses)
Swept Away (Avett Brothers)
Swimming Song (Loudon Wainwright III)
Teach Your Children (CSNY)
Thank God I'm a Country Boy (John Denver)
Thank You For Being a Friend (Andrew Gold)
They Love Each Other (Jerry Garcia)
These Days (Jackson Browne)
This Must Be the Place (Talking Heads)
Thriller (Michael Jackson)
Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen)
Top of The World (Carpenters)
Umbrella (Rhianna)
Uncle John's Band (Grateful Dead)
Vida La Vida (Coldplay)
Wading in the Velvet Sea (Phish)
Wagon Wheel (Old Crow)
We Will Become Silhouettes (Postal Service)
Waiting on a Friend (Rolling Stones)
Waste (Phish)
Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key (Billy Bragg)
The Weight (The Band)
What a Wonderful World
What the World Needs Now is Love
When I Paint My Masterpiece (Bob Dylan)
When U Love Somebody (Fruit Bats)
White Wedding (Billy Idol)
With Or Without You (U2)
Wild Horses (Rolling Stones)
Wildflowers (Tom Petty)
Winter Winds (Mumford and Sons)
Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)
With a Little Help from My Friends
Yer So Bad (Tom Petty)
You Can Close Your Eyes (James Taylor)
You Love the Thunder (Jackson Browne)
You Never Can Tell (Chuck Berry)

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