May Fiddle Club Session

The final fiddle club session of the year was out in Winchester, VA; a bit of a haul for some folks, and close to home for more than I realized! Our theme was "great tunes", and that they were: two fun G-major strathspeys that could be rolled into one, and a tune that was immediately dubbed "the missing parts of High Road to Linton".

The tunes played at the session were:
Mrs. MacLeod of Raasay
Earl of Mansfield
Hamish Henderson's Refusal
Tam Lin
Seann Trews Uilleachean (I have to check the spelling on this one!)
Miss Shepherd's
Just Cruising
Space Available
Kissing is the Best of A'
The Drunken Piper
The Sound of Mull
Jig of Slurs
Atholl Highlanders
Stool of Repentance
(The Potato song - I forget what this note means)
Drummond Castle
High Road to Linton
(the new tune - I gotta look this one up)
Barrowburn Reel
A Taste of Gaelic
Miss Ratray (sp?)
Willafjord
Elizabeth's Big Coat (sp?)
Devil in the Kitchen
Margaret Ann Robertson
Da Road to Houll
Lady Dundass of Arniston
Calliope House
Skye Gathering
Tail Toddle
High Drive
Tongadale Reel
Smith's a Gallant Fireman
Scully's Reel
Auld Rosin the Bow
Loch Leven Castle
Lexy McAskill
Spootiskerry
Geordie MacLeish
Randy Wife of Greenlaw
Pretty Pegg
North Highland Dance #4 (or #5?)
Glen Elg
Timour the Tartar
Reconciliation
Keep it Up
Mason's Apron
Drover Lads
The Curlew
Muckin' O Geordie's Byre
Paddy's Leather Britches

May Royal Mile Jam

We had a great jam this month, with excellent turnout. Thanks to everyone to coming! We had lots of fiddles, a pair of guitars, my smallpipes, and a Highland piper from the Netherlands regaled us with a few tunes.

The tunes we played were as follows:
Skye Gathering
Mrs. MacLeod
Duke of Fife's Welcome to Deeside
Miss Drummond of Perth
Loch Leven Castle
Willafjord
Sleep Soond ida Moarnin
Muckin' o' Geordie's Byre
Sailor's Wife
Off She Goes
Bonnie at Morn
Highland Whisky
Devil in the Kitchen
Devil Amang the Tailors
High Road to Linton
Hector the Hero
Spootiskerry
Flowers of Edinburgh
Atholl Highlanders
Tongadale Reel
Auld Rosin the Bow
Banks of Inverness
Soldier's Joy
Crossing the Minch
The Easy Club
Da Slokit Light
Da Full Rigged Ship
Da New Rigged Ship
Stumpie
High Drive
Sweetness of Mary
The Maple Leaf
Smith's a Gallant Fireman
Geordie MacLeish
Jenny Dang the Weaver
Highland Laddie
The White Cockade
Stool of Repentance

And a couple of Irish tunes.

After almost everyone had just left, Chris and I got a special treat: Native American flute sensation Ron Warren dropped in, with native dancer Mary Hope and his manager, and played a duet on his E-minor native flute with Chris on guitar. Very gorgeous stuff.

Again, thanks to everyone for making this our best session of the year to date. Keep coming out, and I'll see you next time!