I need some suggestions for jigs to play with Dave Richardson's
Calliope House.
I've tried darn near every E and Em jig I know and can't find one that
pairs well and transitions well to or from Calliope House. Any
suggestions for me?
John
I play Andy Dejarlis Jig before Calliope House (Jerry
You asked about people playing in dance bands Nigel. I play in a 4 fiddle
ceilidh band called the Clarty Cloot. We play mainly in the Borders with
some dances in Edinburgh (reasonable rates etc etc!!)
Playing for dancing is just fantastically enjoyable. Couldn't recommend it
highly enough - it
I found this tune in Bremner's Scots Reels and wondered about the title.
'Hirpl'd', I understand, means 'hobbled', but He hobbled till her makes
little
more sense to me than the original. Any ideas of what is meant?
I don't know if it has any relevance here but till also means to ,
certainly in
Bob Hobkirk died last week. Anybody who heard him in his prime (before his
car accident) or who has a copy of the Border Fiddles CD will know what a
great player he was. He had grown very frail and maybe a sudden death was a
blessing.
Eric
Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music
I also got a flood of digests last night. I stopped receiving them in
January this year for no obvious reason. I tried re-subscribing a number of
times without success. Thought I'd been blacklisted! Nice to see all the
old familiar names still here - same old arguments?
Re David's banjo
This is an appeal of sorts. I'm hoping to get a commemorative stone put up
to the violin makers Matthew and Thomas Hardie in Greyfriars kirkyard in
Edinburgh in the New Year. In 1826 Matthew Hardie, master violin maker of
Edinburgh, died in poverty in St CuthbertÂ’s Poorhouse and was buried in
Does anybody know anything about a fiddler called William Cowie from around
the Cumbernauld area - say, late 18th/early 19th Century? A friend of mine
was given a tune-book which originally belonged to Cowie from the local
minister, who'd been rummaging around in some boxes and came across it.
David Kilpatrick wrote
Lovely girls, aren't they? Actually, it does sound as if the 'attack'
was less serious - more like just a part of the girl's hair getting cut
off, not a massacre... And so on.
David, I think this might be worth a blether when we bang into each other
again, but it
There is nothing Kelso girls like less than a pretty face, unless it's
long blond hair. The town is notorious for any girl who looks half decent
getting waylaid and scarred
for life by members of the plug ugly majority!
Oh David, how could you malign the young ladies of your adopted home
...Whinham's Reel -- anybody got the ABCs for that?
Do you know any more about it, Janice? Is it Northumbrian?
- --
Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland
I don't have abc software but I do have a copy of Remember Me - a
collection of the music of Robert Whinham by Graham Dixon published in 1995.
Tracy, tell us about the Keith festival. David K, what are your plans
for the Scottfest? Ross, how long have you been playing? Eric, is Bob
still fiddling? Kate, how is David's career going? Gaye, did you ever
play music with Jim Tweedie? Philip, are you from the Kelso area
originally? Dan, d'you
As long as you don't do that bloody awful song about 'that's the
whateveritis for Billy and me' - some sort of sentimental doggerel about
Border burns and childhood which turned out to be his No 1 hit :-)
Nearly as bad as the Kelso toon sang.
David
My brother had to learn that at primary
We had the launch of this CD in the Cross keys pub in Denholm on Thursday
night. It was a really special occasion because Bob Hobkirk came out of his
"retirement" to play a number of tunes. Despite ill-health Bob bowed
beautifully and the rhythm was still there - he's little power in his left
Apart from the line "...fiddlers up fae the border.." in Brian
MacNeil's song "Trysting Fair at Falkirk" you don't get a lot
of reference to the fiddling of the Scottish Borders.
I used to think that was what it said, too. Then I looked it up
in Brian's songbook. It's "pedlars".
Rats.
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