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    Dordán's Favourite.

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    Dordán's Favourite.
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    A lovely Carolan-style tune I heard Dordán playing on the Late, Late Show. ... I'd love to know the name ... ?
    Played on Hammered Dulcimer, English Concertina, Fiddle, Whistle & Bodhran.
    Lockdown Video #705

     

    Cheers,

    Dick

     

     

     

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    Lady Charlotte Campbell's Strathspey.

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    Lady Charlotte Campbell's Strathspey.
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    Strathspey, composed by Nathaniel Gow & first published in 1792. Playing it for an old pal, the late Logan Mackie-Campbell, from Tarbert, in Argyll ~ on the rhs in the photo.
    Played on Hammered Dulcimer, English Concertina, Fiddle & Bodhran.
    Lockdown Video #703
     
    Cheers,
    Dick
     
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    The Iron Man.

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    The Iron Man.
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    Scottish Strathspey, composed in 1923 by J. Scott Skinner for his friend and benefactor William M.F. McHardy, the Laird of Drumblair.
    Played on Hammered Dulcimer, English Concertina, Fiddle & Bodhran.
    Lockdown Video #701

     

    Cheers,

    Dick

     

     

     

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    Tullochgorum.

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    Tullochgorum.
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    One of the finest Scottish Strathspeys. Published in 1757 & as it's one of my favourite tunes, I think, it's a fine choice for my #700 milestone. 🙂
    Played on Hammered Dulcimer, English Concertina, Fiddle & Bodhran.
    Lockdown Video #700

     

    Cheers,

    Dick

     

     

     

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    Inisheer.

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    Inisheer.
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    An Irish Slow Air, composed by Tommy Walsh.

    While living in Dublin, back in 1979, I used to go to Tommy''s weekly Ballads & Tunes session & that's where I learned this tune.

    Here, I made a point of trying to play it the way Tommy actually composed it, rather than the way people have messed around with it since.
    Played on English Concertina, Fiddle & Whistle.
    Lockdown Video #699

     

    Cheers,

    Dick

     

     

     

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    Milltimber Jig.

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    I haven't been back since the bypass, so probably wouldn't recognise the place.

    I checked on google maps & our wee gate lodge has had numerous extensions, so has probably lost most of its charm. 😞

     

    I learned it by ear, but you'll get the dots for this jig here: thesession.org 

     

    Cheers,

    Dick

    Milltimber Jig.

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    Milltimber Jig.
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    A Scottish Jig, composed by the late Ian Crichton.
    Played on English Concertina, Fiddle, Trump & Bodhran.
    Photo is the Gardener's Gate Lodge, Contlaw Road, Milltimber, Aberdeen where we lived in the 1980's.
    Lockdown Video #697

     

    Cheers,

    Dick

     

     

     

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    Two Polkas! ~ #1 & Ned Kelly's.

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    Two Polkas! 😎 #1 & Ned Kelly's. ( On English Concertina )

     

    I'm a real sucker for a good Polka & yesterday I heard Mike Kelliher, on Accordion, playing these cracking Polkas in a video, during a session in Castleisland & as you do when you hear great tunes, I just had to sit down & learn them today.

    Anyone know the name for the first one? 

     

    Chers,

    Dick

     

     

     

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    The Yorkshire Trip.

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    The Yorkshire Trip.
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    An English three part Slip Jig, published by John Johnson in 1744. Also in William Vickers Northumbrian manuscript of 1770.
    Played on Hammered Dulcimer, English Concertina, Fiddle, Tenor Banjo & Bodhran.
    Lockdown Video #670

     

    Cheers,

    Dick

     

     

     

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    Johnny McGill!

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    Johnny McGill!
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    A Scottish Jig, composed by John McGill of Girvan & 1st published by McGlashan in 1780.

    John, a Fiddle player, was described as dancing master in Girvan & the town Piper.

    The tune was used by Robert Burns for his song - 'Tibbie Dunbar'.
    Played on Hammered Dulcimer, Tenor Guitar, English Concertina, Fiddle, Tenor Banjo & Bodhran.
    Lockdown Video #673

     

    Cheers,

    Dick

     

     

     

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    Wee Totum Fogg!

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    Wee Totum Fogg!
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    A Scottish 3/2, the Air to an old Song - 'Wee Totum Fogg', 1st published in 1803, which Burns used for his song - 'Wee Willie Gray'.
    "Wee Totum Fogg, Sits upon a creepie;
    Half an ell o' gray, Wad be his coat and breekie"
    A 'Creepie' is a small wooden stool, like the one in the photograph, which would have been familiar in many Scottish farmhouses in the 19th century.

    Creep, an old scot’s word meaning to crawl, or to stoop low.
    Played on Trump, English Concertina, Fiddle, Hammered Dulcimer & Bodhran.
    Lockdown Video #672

     

    Cheers,

    Dick

     

     

     

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