If you've got the Green Piper's Pocket Book, there's Old Towler, which
is wholly secular but also sort of half belongs to the South Yorkshire
carolling tradition. The words definitely belong to the cold half of
the year.
Dru Brooke-Taylor
On 5 Dec 2007, at 22:47, Ian Lawther wrote:
In a few weeks time I will playing my pipes for a class at my
daughter's school to do the North Skelton Sword Dance to. This is a
performance the whole elementary school will be attending. After this
I will be playing something on my own and need to come up with
something with a seasonal theme, but preferably traditional and not
linked to religion....... One choice is The Cold Nights Of Winter, and
were I not already playing for a long sword dance I would have played
the set I used to play for rapper as this was partly a Boxing Day
tradition. Is there any music associated with other traditions at
this time of year like the Allendale Tar Barrels....or can anyone come
up with some wintry titles that might be over looking.
Thanks,
Ian Lawther
www.bagpipediscs.com
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