The Real Pa’s Fiddle - Dance Music of “Pa” Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie 

This was such fun, Mary Pat, thank you. A tidbit of history: my great, great grandad was Hiram Ingalls, little brother of Charles. His daughter, Mary Ellen Rose Ingalls, was my grandpa's mom. My grandpa, Leonard Kezer, got his first fiddle from cousin Bill Ingalls. We grew up listening to my grandpa playing fiddle and my grandma on piano. The memory of these tunes was the sole reason I bought my first fiddle years ago. :)

This was a very nicely-done, research-based and insightful examination of Charles Ingalls fiddling. Great information and great tunes!

Wonderful! So interesting!

So interesting!

When the nights were too hot to sleep, my aunt's, uncles, grandfather and grandmother would often sing for a while! Nearly every time, my grandfather would say to my grandmother, "Mattie, sing 'Strap your bastard on your back and paddle your own canoe'". She never did so I never heard the song?

Very nice, thank you! 🙏 Love hearing these tunes & imagining the Wilders dancing & having some happiness during hard times ☺️💕. Well done 👍!

Thank you!

Thank you very much for this video. I was interested in finding the real music. I only recently read any of the Laura Ingall's books. In my case it was The Long Winter. It is a fiction book so I did not expect it to be exact. With it being a children's book I expected alot to be left out. If you read The Long Winter then you know of the depravation all the families went through.

Thank you for putting so much work into this. This was helpful as I’m leading a “campfire talk” at our campground discussing music of the American prairie in the 1800s. Im glad I found this video!

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About your comparison of the books with the TV show--I cannot thank you enough! There is little similarity between the two. I love the books so much I can't bring myself to watch the show because it is a travesty. I believe Laura would never have allowed this show to be made in her lifetime. She turned down a TV idea based on her books because the scriptwriters wanted to change too many things. So I don't watch it out of my honor for her. (From something I read recently, she herself did not own a television.)