lachenal74693 Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 (edited) This is effectively a x-post from melodeon.net where a recent thread has spotlighted a collection which may be of interest to some readers of this forum: https://buttreymilitarysocialtunes1800.wordpress.com/ Roger Edited December 18, 2018 by lachenal74693 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Taylor Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 Roger As a result of your post I discovered a treasure trove of material from my home province: http://www.ontariotraditionalmusic.ca Thanks, Don. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathhag Posted December 18, 2018 Share Posted December 18, 2018 40 minutes ago, Don Taylor said: Roger As a result of your post I discovered a treasure trove of material from my home province: http://www.ontariotraditionalmusic.ca Thanks, Don. Wow Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lachenal74693 Posted December 18, 2018 Author Share Posted December 18, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, Don Taylor said: As a result of your post I discovered a treasure trove of material from my home province: ... Thanks, Don, all part of the service ?... I did wonder if the link to the Ontario Traditional Music site might yield results, but hadn't checked it out yet - I'm transcribing a few tunes from the Buttrey site first, to see what they sound like. The Buttrey site is amazing - many of the scores in the manuscript are interspersed with wonderful little drawings. The amount of work put into the original must have been enormous - as is the amount of work put in by the team of heroes who are in the process of resurrecting this MS. To me, it looks as if this manuscript is really quite 'important' as it seems to have lots of illustrations, and detailed descriptions of the Battle of mumble-mumble in 1805 by someone who was in the British Army at the time, and all sortys of other amazing stuff... Glad you found summat worth looking at... Roger Edited December 18, 2018 by lachenal74693 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLDNICKILBY Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 Eh Up Don. I thought that you were from Lesta Me Duck. Best Wishes Old Nic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill N Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 (edited) 22 hours ago, Don Taylor said: As a result of your post I discovered a treasure trove of material from my home province: http://www.ontariotraditionalmusic.ca Thanks, Don. Don, the curator of this site, Ian Bell, has recently and quickly become a very competent concertina player (he's an incredible multi-instrumentalist), and there are some very tasty concertina recordings there. His versions of Sir Roger de Coverley, and an Ontario tune called Jim Fisher the Caller are worth learning. Edited December 19, 2018 by Bill N 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Taylor Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 4 hours ago, Bill N said: Don, the curator of this site, Ian Bell, has recently and quickly become a very competent concertina player (he's an incredible multi-instrumentalist), and there are some very tasty concertina recordings there. His versions of Sir Roger de Coverley, and an Ontario tune called Jim Fisher the Caller are worth learning. Thanks Bill, I will check out Ian Bell's recordings, I presume this is the same Ian Bell from 'Friends of Fiddlers Green'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lachenal74693 Posted December 20, 2018 Author Share Posted December 20, 2018 (edited) 15 hours ago, Bill N said: ...there are some very tasty concertina recordings there... and here... There is a potted bio of Ian Bell (and the rest of t'Buttrey team) on the web site - doesn't mention 'Friends of Fiddlers Green' though.. Edited December 20, 2018 by lachenal74693 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken_Coles Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 Don, are you thinking of Ian Robb? He lives in Ontario, plays EC and sings, and is (or was, don't know if they are still active) in Fiddler's Green. Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill N Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 (edited) The current line-up of FoFG has Ians Robb & Bell. Both are also involved in numerous other projects as well. Edited December 20, 2018 by Bill N Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Taylor Posted December 20, 2018 Share Posted December 20, 2018 12 minutes ago, Bill N said: The current line-up of FoFG has Ians Robb & Bell. Both are also involved in numerous other projects as well. Here is a nice bit of EC playing from Ian Robb. I think that is Ian Bell playing guitar sitting next to him. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Harrison Posted December 21, 2018 Share Posted December 21, 2018 And just to complete the picture............... Alistair Brown, who plays anglo/melodeon and lived in Ontario for 30 or so years, on the left of the picture. The tune, Waiting for Emily, composed by Brian Pickell who live here in Paris, Ontario. Robin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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