Where is this tune written down Kate?
Oh, it's actually already in the DunGreen Collection, but I'm
revising. I never actually had that particular Five MacDonald's LP
in my hands before yesterday, so I hadn't realized the tune was on
any recording by that name. I had thought maybe it was a
At 11:45 AM 7/14/2003, it was written:
That type of thing happens in remote parts of North Carolina all the
time.. A certain locality has a name, but no one knows why it's called
that, except for the very oldest of the old timers..
Indeed. I come from such an area in NC... Transylvania
Has anyone been hiking in Arrochar? Is there a bridge there? {This is
the title of a tune recorded by the Five MacDonalds, who were fiddlers
from Cape Breton).
- Kate D.
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Has anyone been hiking in Arrochar? Is there a bridge there?
Not so as you'd notice. There's one carrying the railway over the
road midway between Arrochar and Tarbert, and doubtless a few small
ones, but nothing spectacular. I can't even imagine where you'd
want to put a big bridge near
David Greenberg wrote:
Has anyone been hiking in Arrochar? Is there a bridge there? {This is
the title of a tune recorded by the Five MacDonalds, who were fiddlers
from Cape Breton).
Wow.. Where is this tune written down Kate? What are y'all playing it
with?
I bet it's damned hot in
Where is this tune written down Kate?
Oh, it's actually already in the DunGreen Collection, but I'm revising.
I never actually had that particular Five MacDonald's LP in my hands
before yesterday, so I hadn't realized the tune was on any recording by
that name. I had thought maybe it was a
still could be a made up name. Or maybe Dan R. MacDonald made the tune
and nobody knows it; he was in Scotland so he did use some Scottish
place names in tune titles. I don't know of an Arrochar in Nova
Scotia. Some names aren't on the maps anymore though.
And some names are local
