Modal fiddle tunes sit just outside the major-key bluegrass canon — A modal, D modal, occasional Am, Em — and they carry the older, more haunting sound that old-time and Celtic fiddlers traded for centuries. “Shady Grove,” “Cold Frosty Morning,” “Cluck Old Hen,” “Sail Away Ladies” all hover in modal territory. Twenty-seven minor-mode tunes in our catalog.

Each tune’s page on Picker’s Guide has chord charts, recordings, and notes on arrangements and capo positions.