Pauline & Francis This looks wonderful! Here's another quote from the publicity:
In Britain and Ireland, the tradition of playing bellows-blown bagpipes exists to this day, primarily in the traditional dance repertoire. [1]http://4pipers.wordpress.com/ That rings so true as far as north Northumberland is concerned. Pipers and fiddlers played together and shared the dance repertoire. They were far too far away (40 miles as the crow flies) from the Cloughs to be influenced by their style. An idea of the sort of difficulties of this ever happening can be found here: [2]www.robbpipes.com/WillWillyHighBleakhope It's such a pity that this part of the tradition (which was in some ways a truer and longer tradition than the Clough one) is not only ignored but actively denied in some quarters. Anthony -- References 1. http://4pipers.wordpress.com/ 2. http://www.robbpipes.com/WillWillyHighBleakhope To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
