February Fiddle Club Session

Hello again, everyone!

We had a great fiddle club meeting, with Elke Baker focussed on tunes in 9/8. Most were quite old tunes, and they fell into two categories: slip jigs and some of the deepest slow airs out there. We then went on into a great potluck and a rockin' well-attended session. Elke tested our memories on some of the new tunes from this week, and repeating a feat from last week, Catherine brilliantly (and accidentally) transposed a tune a whole step lower and launched into it with gusto. Who knew Duke of Fife worked so well in G, and that Back of the Change House sounded so good in C? Accident or not, it was a lot of fun trying to keep up!

Here's a list of tunes we played:
Stella's Trip to Kamloops
There Came a Young Man
Shifting Bobbins
Back of the Change House/Jenny Dang the Weaver/Pretty Pegg
Tail Toddle/High Drive
Hamish Henderson's Refusal/Tam Lin/The Tongadale Reel
In Dispraise of Whisky/Ho Ro The Dram, My Boy
Prince Charles
Hughie Shortie/Brenda Stubbart's/The Barrowburn Reel
The Piper's Weird/The Piper's Jig/Teviot Brig
Calliope House/Andy DeJarlis' Jig/The New Fiddle/MacArthur Road
Skye Boat Song (in G)/Space Available
Then Elke tried The Lees of Luncarty, but no one joined in. But it's a great tune.
Eternal Surge of the Sea
Sail Her Ower the Raftrees
Statten Island/Jackie Tar/Flowers of Edinburgh
Lochanside/The Muckin o' Geordie's Byre/The Stool of Repentance
The Duke of Fife's Welcome to Deeside
Petronella
The Shetland Fiddler
Willafjord/Spootiskerry
Rosebud of Allenvale
Highland Laddie
Cuzzle Together
The Ale is Dear/High Road to Linton
I tried to start The Crooked Bridge here, but it fizzled.
Put Me In a Box
De'il amang the Tailors/Timour the Tartar/Jack Daniel's Reel