Tune Add: Humber to Winooski

Subject: Tune Add: Humber to Winooski
From: Captain Swing
Date: 03 Mar 21 - 03:46 PM

There is a bunch of stalwart folkies in Montpelier Vermont who have played resolutely through lockdown on Zoom. One of the tunes they have played is an earlier one of mine. They now know it by heart and probably better than I do, it's certainly played more in America at the moment than in the UK!

To honour their commitment, I have written a new tune for them that, I hope captures some flavours of Celtic music of the UK and Ireland but also strains of North American and French Canadian music. Not sure if it has worked but it's turned out to be quite a deceptively easy tune to play.

Here it is for anyone who would like; named after respective local rivers:

Humber to Winooski

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Humber to Winooski
From: cnd
Date: 03 Mar 21 - 09:53 PM

Thanks for sharing, Captain, it's been a while since I heard one of your songs on here!

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Humber to Winooski
From: Captain Swing
Date: 04 Mar 21 - 06:12 AM

Thanks for the comment cnd, you are very welcome!

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Humber to Winooski
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 04 Mar 21 - 11:41 AM


"Here it is for anyone who would like; named after respective local rivers"
I couldn't find a Humber River near the Winooski River when I looked it up on the web.Is there one?

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Humber to Winooski
From: Captain Swing
Date: 04 Mar 21 - 12:23 PM

Geoff - respective as in our local river and their local river ie E. Yorks to Vermont.

However, just by the way, there is a River Humber in Ontario "only" 640km from the Winooski. Dotted around it are the likes of Caistor, Grimsby, Welland, Scarborough, Pickering, Whitby.

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Humber to Winooski
From: Captain Swing
Date: 08 Mar 21 - 10:03 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Humber to Winooski
From: leeneia
Date: 08 Mar 21 - 10:41 AM

Thanks for a fine tune, Captain.

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Humber to Winooski
From: Captain Swing
Date: 08 Mar 21 - 11:34 AM

Thanks Leeneia!

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Humber to Winooski
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 10 Mar 21 - 05:01 AM

Hello Captain Swing, are you the chap that used to run the Cottingham Folk Club?

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Humber to Winooski
From: Captain Swing
Date: 10 Mar 21 - 08:10 AM

That's me Geoff!

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Humber to Winooski
From: Stewart
Date: 11 Mar 21 - 11:06 AM

That's a fine tune. I'm going to learn to play it.

Thanks, S. in Seattle

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Humber to Winooski
From: Captain Swing
Date: 11 Mar 21 - 11:53 AM

Thanks Stewart!

If you need sheet music, tab or a slow midi version, you can access them here:

Humber to Winooski: tab, dots and slow midi

Let me know how you go with it.

Pete

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Humber to Winooski
From: Stewart
Date: 12 Mar 21 - 12:37 PM

Thanks Captain
I was just about to transcribe it myself.
Saved the trouble.

S. in Seattle