Tradman
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I haven't posted anything for a while, but here's a cool (and rather eccentric) polska I recently started playing again on concertina.
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A "Good Night" polska.
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It's New Year's Eve, and I'm ending the year with the last song from the solo half of my Twelfth Night (January 6th) Austin house concert from the beginning of the year. Shakespeare ends his play with the fool singing of the observations throughout his life, so it seems appropriate to end the year with a song of life's observations.
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Here's an old Swedish wedding march I'm playing with my band in Austin. I love how the concertina blends with the fiddles.
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I love the modal/modal-minor Dalarna music, and you express it wonderfully on concertina, keep it coming! I recently nabbed a sweet vintage copy of the LP "Folk Fiddling From Sweden: Traditional Fiddle Tunes From Dalarna," played by Bjorn Sabi and Ole Hjorth. This stuff transfers niftily to concertina!
Here's a couple of tunes from Stabi and Hjorth: https://youtu.be/jdNtYVXwmF8 and https://youtu.be/4ceOgfM3udM
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Thanks Ceemonster. I have a whole bunch of these tunes on YouTube. Here's the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15BK_rnevvM&list=PLA6DA50B68BE3813D
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Here's a wedding march from Leksands (Dalarna) which I've become very fond of.
Enjoy,
Mark Gilston
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Here's another song I learned a long time ago. It's a fine old ballad from the Adirondack Mountains of New York.
Enjoy,
Mark Gilston
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I've been doing a "Folklore Series" of songs I learned from oral tradition in my childhood. Most of them I sing unaccompanied as I learned them, but some of them I've incorporated into my performances, and those I accompany with dulcimer, guitar or concertina.
Here is Lather and Shave, a song I've performed with concertina since the mid 1970's, If you want to skip the intro and get right to the song, it begins at 45 seconds into the video.
Enjoy,
Mark Gilston
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It's been quite a while since I posted a video with concertina. Here's a fine amusing old song with oom-pah accompaniment:
Enjoy,
Mark Gilston
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Yes. It's the same town. Though you have to be careful with names like Waltz from Boda since there are many. The emphasis may appear to be on the second beat, but it isn't. Almost all Swedish polskas have main emphasis on the first beat and minor emphasis on the third, but that first beat may not even be played, so it gets very difficult for an unattuned listener to grasp what's going on. The lengths of the beat and the bow strokes are what varies, so with a non-bowed instrument, one has to adjust as best one can. In bodapolska, the emphasis is still on the first beat, but since it is shortened, it can sound like the second is getting emphasized. It's all much clearer if there is a bass player, but if you ever watch a Swedish musician, look at their feet. The tapping will tell the whole story.
Boda is a town in Dalarna (the so called folkloric region of Sweden). A bodapolska is a particular couple dance from that town and the surrounding region. It is characterized by a short first beat and a sweeping second beat where the woman is sort of suspended briefly in the air.
There are lots of examples on YouTube. Here's a nice one with a strong rhythm, and where you can see the women's movement quite clearly: http://youtu.be/Cx1qx288lZI
Ah. Same town as the namesake of Waltz from Boda?
So one difference is that in a bodapolska, the emphasis is on the second beat, in a hambo on the first. Right?
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Boda is a town in Dalarna (the so called folkloric region of Sweden). A bodapolska is a particular couple dance from that town and the surrounding region. It is characterized by a short first beat and a sweeping second beat where the woman is sort of suspended briefly in the air.
There are lots of examples on YouTube. Here's a nice one with a strong rhythm, and where you can see the women's movement quite clearly: http://youtu.be/Cx1qx288lZI
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Here's my recording of Trollspolska. I play it as a bodapolska which is the traditional way it's played and danced in Sweden. The hambo version seems to have come out of New England and from there crossed back to Sweden.
Here's a YouTube video of me playing a Swedish hambo: http://youtu.be/ps9OmV21hIE
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In Sweden, Trollspolska is normally played as a Bodapolska which is not a regular 3/4 rhythm. The first beat is shortened and the second beat has a bit of a swoop to it. Occassionally it may be played as a hambo which has a very pronounced and very slightly elongated first beat, but it is best known as a Bodapolska. The rhythm is never even, however, which is the danger of trying to learn these ethnic tunes from sheet music.
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It's on my CD "Troll Road" played as a duet with each concertina track duplicating one of the fiddle parts. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/gilston4
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My CD "Troll Road" has lot of polskas played on English concertina and English concertina / fiddle duets. There are lots of samples at the web site.
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Many thanks
There's also quite a lot of concertina on "At Your Request""Troll Road," "Troll Road," "Troll Road"! Let's say it again, just because it's so much fun to say it: "Troll Road"!!!!
:rolleyes: I mean, the CD title is as nifty as the playing and the musical choices!
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Hello all. After a long stretch of mountain dulcimer postings, I've posted a new video with concertina.
It's my favorite Christmas carol, so Merry Christmas to one and all:
Enjoy,
Mark Gilston
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After a long break from concertina videos, I've posted another Swedish Waltz.
Enjoy,
Mark Gilston
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I'm playing a nice harmony to the fiddles in this house concert recording of a lovely Swedish wedding march.