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Thread #108475 Message #2259377
Posted By: Jack Campin
11-Feb-08 - 09:30 AM
Thread Name: Folk clubs - what is being sung
Subject: RE: Folk clubs - what is being sung
Something I wrote to a visitor to Sandy Bell's, Edinburgh in 2006. This is a mainly-instrumental session, not a folk club.
: I would be very happy if you could send me a list of some of
: the names that was played at sandy bells
Okay, I took in a notebook, put my ethnomusicologist's hat on and wrote
down everything we played this afternoon. Most led off by George, none
by me this time; I'll be starting more next week when George isn't there,
so I'll do another list then. Definite shortage of songs this time.
Four probably-Irish jigs we didn't know the names of (Anette knows the
third one, I'll try to ABC it)
2/4 marches
Jean Mauchline (Bm)
Ben Gullion (Am)
Strathspey versions of:
The Road to the Isles (A)
The Lea Rig (A)
Jigs
Father O'Flynn (A)
Rakes of Kildare (A dorian)
Saddle the Pony (A)
The Irish Washerwoman (G)
2/4 marches
Mrs McDonald of Dunacht (D)
Jim Christie of Wick (Bm)
Jigs
The Ferry
Three we didn't know the names of
2/4 marches
McKenzie Highlanders
The Poor Old Woman (or Glengarry's Farewell)
72nd's Farewell to Aberdeen (or The Boy's Lament for his Dragon)
The Hills of Perth (A mixolydian)
Jigs
The Earl of Errol (C)
McAlister's Jig (G)
Boys of North Connel (D)
Anderson's Delight (A)
Schottisches
The Keel Row (A) - nb when I start this I do it in D
Glasgow Highlanders
Katie Bairdie (D) (or Kafoozalum - remember I've got the words
if you're *really* curious)
Orange and Blue (D) (or Brochan Lom)
2 strathspeys and 2 reels
Banks of Spey (A dorian)
Source of Spey
Johnnie Lad (Em) (dance version of the song Johnnie Sangster)
Inver Lasses
(interlude at this point for an extended discussion on attitudes
to vegetarianism around the EU)
Reels
The Merry Blacksmith
The Barrowburn Reel (D)
Little Donald in the Pigpen (same as Little Donald's Wife? not sure)
Lexie McAskill (A dorian)
The Ale is Dear (Bm)
Waltzes
Farquhar and Hetty's Waltz (D)
Midnight on the Water (D)
(others of the same type sometimes put together: Margaret's Waltz,
The Stronsay Waltz, The Tennessee Waltz - if you get one you will
get one or two of the others but there's no telling which, and
Margaret's Waltz might be in A, D or G)
Reels
The Burning of the Piper's Hut (Bm)
a Tom Anderson tune we don't know the name of
Far from Home (G)
The New-Rigged Ship (A mixolydian/A dorian)
The Shetland Two-Step (G/C/D, I think)
Hakki's Polka
Duke of Perth reel set
The Duke of Perth
?
The Kettledrum
J.B. Milne
Louis's Waltz (D)
4/4 marches
Stella's Trip to Kamloops (A)
The Braes of Dunvegan
Memories of Father Angus McDonell (G)
Jigs
I Am a Young Man that Lived with My Mother
Kenmure's On and Awa
Hot Punch
The Rock and a Wee Pickle Tow
Jigs
The Leg of a Duck (this has more names than any other tune I know)
Scarce of Tatties
The Banks of the Allan
Reels
? something about Prince Charlie (but *not* "Prince Charlie" itself)
?
Staten Island
The Breakdown (George only does the first 2 parts, there are three)
Polkas
Egan's Polka
Dennis Murphy's Polka
Ger the Rigger
Retreat marches
Pipe Major J.K. Cairns (hard to find so I've attached it)
Torosay Castle
Kirk Hill (or Kirk Brae? - I might have a copy of this somewhere)
Odessa Bulgar (Gm, there are several tunes of this name on the web)
2/4 marches
Blackberry Bush
The Brolam (A)
Donald MacLeod's Reel (Am) (The Traditional Reel, The Nameless Reel)
Jigs
Anne Fraser Mackenzie
Charlie Hunter
The Drunken Parson
Biddy from Sligo
Jigs
Rory MacLeod (A)
Jig Runrig (G)
Lark in the Morning (D)
Memories of Willie Snaith (G/C, not the keys it was written in)
Reels
Jimmy Allan (G) (or The Reel of Tullochgorum, which has nothing to do with
the song/strathspey Tullochgorum, which we don't play much)
Davy Davy Knick Knack (G)
The Lass of Gowrie
Aiken Drum (G)
Jigs
The Lowland Lads Think They Are Fine
Colonel Quigley
Marches and a reel
The Battle of Waterloo (Am) (My Braw Highland Laddie, Mor Nighean a
Ghiberlain, Marion the Beggarman's Daughter)
Flett from Flotta
The Howl
Reels
The High Road to Linton (A mixolydian/A major)
The Fairy Dance (D)
Loch Leven Castle (Am)
? (A)
Song: The Rocks of Merasheen (Em) (a Canadian woman called Susie sang this -
she might still be around when you're here)
Two-step (6/8 march tunes)
The 6:20 Two-step
The Dancing Dustman
at which point the night session arrived, and two fiddlers (Jamie
and Kirsty) who hadn't played in the afternoon session before did
a linking set of very recent and rather obscure reels mostly by
Claire Mann that they mostly couldn't put names to.