If you want to hear Matt Seattle playing Lindisfarne, get hold of a copy of the Kathryn Tickell Album "Northumbrian Collection". He plays it there.

We play Lindisfarne AB repeated twice and leave out the variations mainly because our particular group has some novices and they would struggle with some of the variations.

Some folk seem to get hung up on changing the key of a tune to suit an instrument and think that the tune must be played in the original key.

I play Niel Gow's Lament for the death of his second wife in G on my wooden flute because it fits perfectly on the flute within the first two octaves, and sounds really good IMO. When I played it to a fiddler friend, he was horrified that I should change the key. He was even more horrified when I told him I first heard it played in G (ish) by a Northumbrian Piper (He is a fine piper himself). He also does not like us playing Calliope House in D, but as one of our main members is a D/G box player, it's not right to play it in E IMO.

I have another friend, a whistle player, who will rather not play a tune than play it in a different key from the one it was written in.

My own view is if you want to play a tune and it needs transposing to fit your instrument, then do it.

Obviously in a session, you have to go along with the group.