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GUEST,Dr Price | Songs you thought were trad (155* d) | RE: Songs you thought were trad | 30 Nov 04 |
How about dance tunes? I'm a musician with the Welsh Folk Dance Society; We usually play "Lord Of Caernarvon's Jig" (which is not a jig at all but a good, solid, major-key tune in four/four time) and segue into this stonking, marvellous, minor-key tune which I (and a good many other musos) thought was traditional. It's not - I can reveal that Olly Price the fiddler (no relation) wrote it. She named it "Lady Caernarvon's Pig". So now you know... |