Haunting Slow Airs

[Chris Timson]

There's a hauntingly beautiful French tune called Adieu Les Filles De Mon Pays that I learned in the Radway. It immediately captivated our session when I introduced it and more often than not we use it as our finisher. Sory I don't have dots for it, but for G/D anglo players it really lends itself to double-noting.

 

Chris

[Alan Day]

There's a hauntingly beautiful French tune called Adieu Les Filles De Mon Pays that I learned in the Radway. It immediately captivated our session when I introduced it and more often than not we use it as our finisher. Sory I don't have dots for it, but for G/D anglo players it really lends itself to double-noting.

 

Chris

Chris this is one of the tunes on Rosbif - Bouree a Six I will see if there is a way I can put it on MP3 and post it here

Al

[angloplayer]

Here is Will Fly and I playing "Stream to River flow" from our recent CD

Hope you like it

Al

Not really "haunting" but very very nice indeed...

my compliments to both of you!!

 

 

 

[angloplayer]

There's a hauntingly beautiful French tune called Adieu Les Filles De Mon Pays that I learned in the Radway. It immediately captivated our session when I introduced it and more often than not we use it as our finisher. Sory I don't have dots for it, but for G/D anglo players it really lends itself to double-noting.

 

Chris

 

Is it this tune??

http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=www.banjolin.co.uk/banjolin12/music/tunes/abcs/adieulesfille/0000

 

 

 

[Alan Day]

Here is Will Fly and I playing "Stream to River flow" from our recent CD

Hope you like it

Al

Not really "haunting" but very very nice indeed...

my compliments to both of you!!

It can get pretty scary at two in the morning

Thanks

Al

[Chris Timson]

Is it this tune??

http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=www.banjolin.co.uk/banjolin12/music/tunes/abcs/adieulesfille/0000

Close. The tune currently being played in English sessions is basically a stripped down version of that. Interesting, thanks.

 

Chris

Edited August 13, 2010 by Chris Timson

[Alan Day]

I think this is what you played Chris

Attached a bit of Rosbif playing Les Filles De Mon Pays

Line up French Bechonet "Half Longs" (Bagpipes), Cello, Hurdy Gurdy, Viola, Melodeon and me on Anglo concertina.

Al

Problems I can only download this as a WAV file and it is not being accepted

Any ideas?

Edited August 13, 2010 by Alan Day

[AnnC]

I enjoy playing this Swedish Waltz http://www.famdt-ard...ngement-de.html (there is a link to a midi file at the bottom left of the page)

 

Cheers Ann

[Chris Drinkwater]

There's a hauntingly beautiful French tune called Adieu Les Filles De Mon Pays that I learned in the Radway. It immediately captivated our session when I introduced it and more often than not we use it as our finisher. Sory I don't have dots for it, but for G/D anglo players it really lends itself to double-noting.

 

Chris

 

 

The tune dates from the 1st world war, I believe, and relates to the fact that, when the men left the land to fight, the women were left in charge of the land. Here's a version on YouTube played by some French musicians, which sounds identical to the version I learned and play in sessions.

 

 

Chris

[AnnC]

Is it this tune??

http://abcnotation.c...eulesfille/0000

Close. The tune currently being played in English sessions is basically a stripped down version of that. Interesting, thanks.

 

Chris

 

I've played it for years and never known the proper name or the story behind it, thanks for the links.

[Chris Drinkwater]

Another couple of tunes worth a mention, are Ale Moller's lovely waltz, Sommervals. Here's his version on YouTube with lyrics.

 

 

and Tom Anderson's Da Slockit Light. Here's a YouTube version played by our very own Jeff Leff on a Hayden duet.

 

 

Both these tunes are a wonderful addition to the usual session tunes.

 

Chris

[AnnC]

Another couple of tunes worth a mention, are Ale Moller's lovely waltz, Sommervals. Here's his version on YouTube with lyrics.

 

 

and Tom Anderson's Da Slockit Light. Here's a YouTube version played by our very own Jeff Leff on a Hayden duet.

 

 

Both these tunes are a wonderful addition to the usual session tunes.

 

Chris

 

Da Slockit Light's a great tune for getting Fiddlers playing at sessions, the combination of concertina and fiddle goes really well

[Kautilya]

I think this is what you played Chris

Attached a bit of Rosbif playing Les Filles De Mon Pays

Line up French Bechonet "Half Longs" (Bagpipes), Cello, Hurdy Gurdy, Viola, Melodeon and me on Anglo concertina.

Al

Problems I can only download this as a WAV file and it is not being accepted

Any ideas?

Look on Web for free software to convert a WAV to an MP3 and that will go up.

How many MB is the WAV file?

[Kautilya]

Tks Paul Buik and Jim for the list/sources.

reason I luv these is they are easier for beginners with slow fingers!!!!! :blink:

[Kautilya]

Another couple of tunes worth a mention, are Ale Moller's lovely waltz, Sommervals. Here's his version on YouTube with lyrics.

 

 

and Tom Anderson's Da Slockit Light. Here's a YouTube version played by our very own Jeff Leff on a Hayden duet.

 

 

Both these tunes are a wonderful addition to the usual session tunes.

 

Chris

wonderful.

[Robin Madge]

A few interesting slower ones that I play (spelling probably suspect):

 

Malcombe McPhearson's lullabye

Elenor Plunket

The trowie burn

[RatFace]

Not exactly a session tune, but Faure's Apres un Reve is slow and haunting, I think (hope!).

 

Apologies for it being in a windows-specific audio format.

[Larry Stout]

 

Apologies for it being in a windows-specific audio format.

That was lovely. I had no trouble listening to it on my Mac (maybe I have ther right plugin).