Re: Introductions (was Re:[scots-l] Tune ID)
and also New England style fiddler Rodney Miller, who I know nothing about; anyone know of him? He's one of my favourite fiddlers. He's fundamentally a dance (contradance) fiddler, but seems to be a bit of an all-rounder. Someone lent me a tape of his (Airplang) which I loved and wore out playing, and eventually got around to getting more of his stuff (off the web: http://www.greatmeadowmusic.com/) and it's all great. His style really has a want to get up and dance feel about it (and from my point of view, there's no higher achievement); it's effortlessly musical, delicate yet driving, and he comes up with wonderful impromptu tune variations while retaining the essence of the tune. And his tune repertoire comes from all over (Scottish, Irish, French Canadian, New England, ...), which suits me perfectly. I had the good fortune to see him at Sidmouth Folk Festival last year (and play in a session with him too) and he definitely met my expectations. I'm jealous - you've got a top lineup! cheers, rog. PS. If anyone's interested, there's a great collection of tunes (arranged as sets for RSCDS dancers) at this page: http://www.pixton.org/scdpw04/musicbook.html It includes that tune I posted earlier (Boston Urban Ceilidh), amongst many others (it's interesting to compare the proper version with mine...). I don't know how long the page will last, so have a look while you can! Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: Introductions (was Re:[scots-l] Tune ID)
Toby Rider wrote: | Yes. I'm in the process of transitioning over to a new version of the | list server, which will stop that problem. I just haven't gotten to it | yet.. Something keeps coming up. Like for instance one of my other | servers just took a total dump yesterday. That wouldn't be lochaber, would it? ;-) Did you see the messages I sent about it? One of the funny things I just saw again from here on this MIT machine: : host lochaber.tullochgorm.com lochaber.tullochgorm.com has address 207.136.137.69 : host lochaber.tullochgorm.com Host not found. : Those two commands were only one or two seconds apart. This isn't the first time I've seen this behavior, but I haven't found any good way to ask the DNS system why it's doing this. Anyone know? (I tried responding directly to Toby, but I got a bounce that said it couldn't create /usr/spool/mail/tarider. So I guess he is fiddling with his email system. Now will this get delivered?) Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: Introductions (was Re:[scots-l] Tune ID)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a PS. If anyone's interested, there's a great collection of tunes (arranged as sets for RSCDS dancers) at this page: http://www.pixton.org/scdpw04/musicbook.html It includes that tune I posted earlier (Boston Urban Ceilidh), amongst many others (it's interesting to compare the proper version with mine...). I don't know how long the page will last, so have a look while you can! There's no such thing as a proper version. Variations improvisiation are part of the game, it's part of being creative. BTW, if you need free webspace for a music-related website, I can give you some. Toby Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: Introductions (was Re:[scots-l] Tune ID)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I guess he is fiddling with his email system. as an email virtuoso, perhaps he can give us a few tunes on the email fiddle... a quick version of Jenny Dang the Webmaster perhaps? LOL.. Funny you should mention that song, I just played that song a few days ago to amuse my band mates. I've taken to playing Scottish Irish tunes during breaks in band rehearsal (I now play lead guitar, fiddle pedal steel in an American Country band). I could really mess with them, and arrange one of the typical Scottish fiddle music sets onto the pedal steel. It wouldn't be a hard thing to do. Hmm.. I wonder what The Braes of Marr would sound like on pedal steel? :-) Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: Introductions (was Re:[scots-l] Tune ID)
Steve Wyrick wrote: Toby Rider wrote: LOL.. Funny you should mention that song, I just played that song a few days ago to amuse my band mates. I've taken to playing Scottish Irish tunes during breaks in band rehearsal (I now play lead guitar, fiddle pedal steel in an American Country band). I could really mess with them, and arrange one of the typical Scottish fiddle music sets onto the pedal steel. It wouldn't be a hard thing to do. Hmm.. I wonder what The Braes of Marr would sound like on pedal steel? :-) Aargh! We're currently doing the step dance Burning the Piper's Hut to a Tony Elman tune that has the instrumentation of Hammered Dulcimer, Cello and Pedal Steel. If only he'd left the pedal steel out of the mix it would have been a nice recording. Not that I don't like pedal steel, you understand... It's not appropriate for all situations, kind of like piano accordion is not always appropriate for a country band :-) Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: Introductions (was Re:[scots-l] Tune ID)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS. If anyone's interested, there's a great collection of tunes (arranged as sets for RSCDS dancers) at this page: http://www.pixton.org/scdpw04/musicbook.html It includes that tune I posted earlier (Boston Urban Ceilidh), amongst many others (it's interesting to compare the proper version with mine...). I don't know how long the page will last, so have a look while you can! That was the music for the RSCDS Boston Branch Pinewoods camp; looks like they've removed all the music pages already, oh well. They note that a lot of the arrangements included copyrighted tunes so I suppose they were in a hurry to remove them. Too bad, I would have been interested. Reading through the schedule, I see they had a great group of teachers and musicians this year! That's another camp I'd like to get to one of these years although I'm not sure my feet could take it! Also thanks for the info on Rodney Miller; I'll definitely check his stuff out. I don't know much about New England style fiddling or Contradance fiddling; I guess this is my opportunity to learn something new. Alasdair tends to attract eclectic fiddlers; I guess that's no surprise! -Steve -- Steve Wyrick -- Concord, California Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
