Thank you for this information. Our band, The Front Porch Strings, has been
playing this for several years. Someone heard it somewhere and knew the
name was My Lily. Now we have the rest of the story.
Mary U
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nigel Gatherer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 4:53 PM
Subject: [scots-l] Re: Gael question (fwd)
> Nigel Gatherer wrote:
>
> > ...Aly Bain playing with Jerry Holland...they played a set of three
> > tunes, an air which I don't know the name of
>
> > X:476
> > T:Untitled Air
> > S:Aly Bain (from a TV programme)
> > N:Bars 5-11 actually played an octave higher
> > Z:Nigel Gatherer
> > R:air
> > M:4/4
> > L:1/4
> > K:A
> > E | A2 A | A2 (3A/B/c/ | A>GF | E2 c/d/ | c2B/A/ | c2B/A/ | Bcd |\
>
> Found it in Jerry Holland's Collection as "My Lily", and air to a
> Gaelic song. Jerry adapted it for fiddle from the playing of Joan
> MacDonald Bowes, so I guess it's apt that it precedes two of her
> compositions.
>
> --
> Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland
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