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their fiddler, also plays a bit of whistle, and is a top-class recorder
player. Buzzby McMillan plays low whistle.
Somebody from Sprangeen (?)
Anne Ward, I would guess.
Other names that spring to mind from this neck of the woods are Hugh
Marwick, John Croall, Stan Reeves...
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How about Charlie Soane, who played in a duo round the circuit with Brian
Miller? There was also based in Aberdeen a fine fiddler called Dick
Glasgow, who now lives in Northern Ireland. His repertoire was mostly Irish
as I recall.
The late Bobby Campbell, although he came to
Not that I'm biased or anything, but Mairi Campbell and Rod Paterson would
be just the job.
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in the kitty
Now that it's a city -
Well, that's what it said in the press.
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be a
braver soul than me though that would predict what will stand the test of
time and what will not.
As for Shand's influence...we always try to get back home from our gigs on
the same night.
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to how the Cape
Breton pianists accompany strathspeys for clues on timing and rhythms.
Their bass lines are good; they generally avoid any kind of fancy harmony.
Would I be right in saying that the strathspey is not widely found in the
older Shetland repertoire?
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??? The CB piano stuff is simple harmonies but very complicated rhythms
and textural effects: the "Shetland" guitar stuff is complicated harmonies
but simple rhythms. Where's the resemblance?
Swing.
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A query from the editor of Box and Fiddle
magazine.
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Bella MacNab's Dance
Aikwood? Sounds like Judy's work - will take a look... she rather nicked
Hogg for her own, though...
David
Or Hogg-ed him to herself.
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future funding from the City, which will enable the project
to expand beyond its current activity.
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If you named a tune after a young society belle, you were on a winner -
My favourite is a little known tune called 'Lady Boyes of Bangkok'
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Janice Hopper wrote:
...Whinham's Reel -- anybody got the ABCs for that?
Do you know any more about it, Janice? Is it Northumbrian?
Great tune! It is Northumbrian, and composed by a fiddler called Whinham.
Piper Graham Dixon unearthed and published a whole collection of his
material about
What about tunes like 'The Cumberland Reel', which has a 16 bar B part, and
16 bars moreover of a long melodic line?
Anyway, we shouldn't allow a frisson of inferiority to pass among us,
because of the sociologist's crack about '8 bar structures'. He could
equally have said that Miles Davis
on the
repeat, and was written for his wife by Tom Clough, who has contributed a
few bits and pieces to the Northumbrian Pipers' Tune Book.
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Carol wrote:
My pipe band is learning Flett from Flotta and are curious about the name.
Does anyone know what it means? It's a cute march.
Flotta is a place in Orkney. Mr Flett is a chap from there - a musician I
think.
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For anyone on this list within striking distancethe Adult Learning
Project's new programme is now available in printed form, and should be
going on the web site before long. IIRC there will be a harmony and
arrangement class in the second term, so that might suit Manuel.
David Francis
There's a superb version of the Gm version on Natalie MacMaster's 'My Roots
are Showing' CD.
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Because there's more to it than songs and tunes, it would be worth having a
look at:
Francis Collinson. The Traditional and National Music of Scotland.
George Emmerson. Rantin Pipe and Tremblin String
George Emmerson. A Celestial Recreation: a social history of Scottish
dancing.
T and J
Nigel's post reminded me that no bibliography of Scots music could exclude
Charles Gore's Scottish Fiddle Index.
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instruments so it may have been his own
design, influenced by Cradden, possibly?
Maybe more likely influenced by the chap from Altan (was it Ciaran Tourish?)
who developed a similar instrument and called it, yes, the 'bizarre'.
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, Dunbar, Glen Affric, Eigg,
Rum, Melrose, Ullapool, Portavadie, Glenshiel, Glasgow.
Thanks, folks!
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it was the wildness of youth
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15 Portree Aros Centre
Sa 16Stirling Tolbooth (afternoon)
Sa 16Edinburgh St Cecilia's Hall (evening)
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Kate Dunlay wrote:
The bad thing is that the notes on the Sole Music
CD say a classic 4/4 march by the infamous Skye piper which means
that we must all be supposed to know why Donald MacLeod is infamous
BUT I DON'T KNOW!!! So, can somebody please help me out?
Is this the same Donald MacLeod
) The
opening and closing sequence (40 bars) can be covered by a 32 bar tune
played AA BBB (or AAABB).
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when it does appear.
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to the volume, and the final digit is a check digit worked out using a
mathematical formula far beyond my ken. So, if an edition is put out by two
different publishers in the UK and the US, it will have two ISBN's.
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have
been known in the early 1800s. The poem is heavy going, and not much
favoured by the poet himself.
One of my guitar students was speculating that the Maids in question might
refer to mountains (along the lines of the Five Sisters, I guess). Any
thoughts on that?
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the Twilight Zone,
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into the open. The
climate had changed. We were able to go about our business unhampered by
the bitter memories of a previous generation, and play venues such as
Aberfeldy Town Hall with impunity. With no audience, but impunity
nonetheless.
'Bella, Bella!' indeed!
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); Cathy Goode and Louis Kaplan from Boston, and
California fiddling wiz Laura Risk, all of whom just happened to be in the
vicinity.
A potent combination of the global and the local - and the band weren't bad
either.
A Guid New Year to one and all
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Yeah, once you've lived here even for a little while,everyone calls
you a Californian for the rest of your life.
Right enough - Laura was introduced as 'Laura Risk from San Francisco' and
did not demur!
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worth seeing by the way - the
unlikely lead is Helena Bonham Carter, who puts in an excellent performance,
spot on CB accent and all.
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as such, but had a
thorough-going technical training from the likes of Douglas Lawrence and
Donald Riddell, which again agrees with Jack's point about there 'being no
sharp line' .
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dance at a time? Were the bands bigger (I'm thinking about the
pre-accordion era)? Did musicians play louder?
Any thoughts?
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individuals. That's one of the things that makes it so good - the
fact that these adventures start on and return to solid ground.
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I've just received confirmation that Tam Reid died last Thursday. The
funeral is on Wednesday, but I don't have any other details. He was one of
the great traditional singers of North East Scotland.
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on Radio Scotland!
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I was talking to Kenny Kemp last night who was telling me more about
Desperate Danz Band including, I think, the time you were supported by
a young outfit called Capercaillie.
That was actually DDB's predecessors, the equally ludicrously named Reel
Aliens. Infused with the spirit of punk
alternatives now available. If you are under 25,
Aberdeen International Youth Festival has a traditional music school which
will run from July 26 until August 3. The fiddle teachers at that will be
Mairi Campbell and Sarah Jane Fifield.
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Nigel wrote:
I've been sent this tune by someone in the states - I've never heard it
before, and can't match it. Does anyone else know it?
Bella McNab's have been playing this tune for a number of years. I don't
know much about it at all - we got it from an album by Dave Swarbrick called
in Glasgow), Plockton
on Thursday, Resolis in the Black Isle on Friday, and Fordyce Village Hall
on Saturday. They're also doing a live spot on BBC Radio Scotland's Celtic
Connections programme tomorrow evening (Tuesday).
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used to follow Calliope with
Duncan Johnstone's tune The Skyeman's Jig in Am, which worked well.
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usually puts
Andy de Jarlis (in E) after Calliope. I think the tune can be found in
Jerry Holland's collection.
Wow, I never thought of doing Andy de Jarlis right after it..
The jump down the octave is really effective. Anyone got any other tricks
for nifty tune changes? The short stop
Yes, 100 per cent. Bert is a Glaswegian
from Edinburgh surely? He was brought up in Pilton, I think.
whose primary repertoire is
traditional Scottish song.
I saw him last year and his set was a mix of stuff - he still does Angie and
Blues Run the Game, as well as his own songs. He's the
-toed boy.)
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Jack Campin wrote:
Not every track
works for me but rather that than the sort of thing Fred Freeman does
any day.
What is it about Fred Freeman's work that doesn't appeal?
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for a set of tunes comes from the use of printed collections?
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key for a set, it
would be natural for the publishers to offer a choice of tunes in the one
key.
Another thought to compound the confusion - I don't have a copy of Kerr's to
hand, but aren't the tunes arranged into groups and numbered?
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, but this practice is not borne out by the oral and written
accounts of dancing in the late 19th and early 20th century gathered by the
Fletts.
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Howking around in some old piles of sheet music I came across a book in
Merrie Melodies format called 'Kerr's Pretty Tunes of All Nations', which
I'd never heard of before. There are a lot of Scottish tunes in it. Anyone
else encountered that one?
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The tune is also known as The Boy's Lament for His Dragon. It appears on
Ossian's first album under the 72nd Highlanders title.
and on Hamish Moore's 'Stepping on the Bridge' under the 'Dragon' title.
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Do any of you play this tune in a set? What other tunes do you play
with it?
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I think there was a bit of discussion on this group about this tune a couple
of years ago. Anyway in response to Nigel's question, Bella McNab's have
been playing the tune for two
Do any of you US based dance fiddlers know where I can get hold of a book
called 'Let's All Dance' by Jo Hamilton and Susie Langdon Kass?
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Something along these lines sounds quite nice I think:
G D7 ¦ D7/A G/B ¦ G E7/B ¦ Am7 D7 ¦ G D/F# ¦ Am/E G/D ¦ C Am ¦ D7/F#
G :¦¦
Em ¦ D ¦ C G/B ¦ Am D7 ¦ Em A7 ¦ D D7 ¦ G Am ¦ D7 G :¦¦
Good tune, Nigel!
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Thanks to all who responded to this query.
all the best
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