Tuesday, December 18, 2007

December Fiddle Club Jam

It was a shorter session, but a good time was had by all.

(and I'm caught up almost in time for January!)

Sailor's Wife
Tam Lin
Willafjord/Spootiskerry
Campbell's Farewell to Redcastle
Flowers of Edinburgh
Jackie Tar
Hills of Lorne
The Tongadale Reel
Muckin o' Geordie's Byre/Stool of Repentance/Paddy's Leather Britches/Tripping Upstairs
General Lesly's Goodnight
Hector the Hero
Sconse a Tatties
(??? I can't read the handwriting here and don't know the tune)
Stumpie/Devil in the Kitchen/High Road to Linton/The Ale is Dear/Jenny Dang the Weaver
My Wife's a Wanton Wee Thing/Drummond Castle/Leslie's March
High Drive
Sir Reginald MacDonald
Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch
Hamish Henderson's Refusal/Tam Lin
Sitting in the Stern of a Boat
Jenny's Bawbee/The Shetland Fiddler/The Easy Club

December Royal Mile Jam

I was exhausted after my Thanksgiving travel, and skipped this one. Does anyone have a tune list?

November Fiddle Club Session

Still catching up...

We played:
Stool of Repentance/Muckin' of Geordie's Byre/Off She Goes/The Devil's awa' with the Exciseman/My Wife's a Wanton Wee Thing/Sailor's Wife/Bonnie Dundee
The Sweetness of Mary/The Lime Hill/Miss Drummond of Perth/Put Me in a Box/Father Francis Cameron/Mortgage Burn
The Piper's Weird
The High Road to Linton
The Braes of Mar/Jenny Dang the Weaver/The Ale is Dear
My Love is but a Lassie Yet
The Northern March
The Banks of Spey/Brenda Stubbert's/The Drunken Piper
Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch
The Braes of Banffshire/Clydesdale Lasses/Reikswald Forest
Willafjord/Spootiskerry/Sleep Soond ida Moarnin/Da New Rigged Ship
The Barrowburn Reel/The Flowers of Edinburgh
Farewell to Whisky/Welcome Whisky Back Again
Calliope House/Andy DeJarlis' Jig/The New Fiddle
Da Auld Resting Chair
The Clumsy Lover
Reggie MacDonald
The Mason's Apron/Dick Gossip's
Prince Charlie
(aka King William aka King of the Fairies)
Neil Gow's Lament for the Death of his Second Wife
Prince Charles' Last View of Scotland
Sean Truibhas Uilleachan
Lady Mary Hay's Scots Measure

November Royal Mile Jam

Better late than never...

This was a really awesome session, well-attended, a lot of newcomers, and thanks to everyone for coming out! We played a lot of tunes that haven't been played in a while, or ever.

Soldier's Joy/De'il Amang the Tailors/Timour the Tartar/Jack Daniel's Reel
The Iron Man/The Barrowburn Reel
Irish Washerwoman
Da Full Rigged Ship/Willafjord/Spootiskerry
Devil in the Kitchen/The Drunken Piper
Hull's Reel/MacArthur Road
Jig Runrig/Sailor's Wife
Trip to Pakistan/Atholl Highlanders/Jig of Slurs
The Lime Hill/King George IV/The King's Reel
The Tongadale Reel
The Clumsy Lover/Tail Toddle/High Drive
The Langor of Love/The Jacobite War Song
(from Simon Fraser)
Seann Truibhas Uillechean
Jenny's Bawbee
Smith's a Gallant Fireman/This is no my ain Hoose/Petronella
The Easy Club/Brenda Stubbert's Reel
Iggy & Squiggy/Molly Rankin's Reel
The Dark Island
My Cape Breton Home
Spootiskerry/Flowers of Edinburgh
O'er the Moor Among the Heather
(4-part Skye Collection version)
Jenny Dang the Weaver/Lasses of ????? (can't read my own writing)
Johnny Cope
Dowd's Favorite/Paresis/Pigeon on a ????
(can't read my writing again)
Mairi's Wedding
Muckin' o Geordie's Byre/Peter Peerie's Boat/Stool of Repentance
Earl of Mansfield
Scotland the Brave
(in a variety of keys)
Lochanside
Tam Lin
Da Slockit Light
Da Full Rigged Ship/Da New Rigged Ship
Mrs. MacLeod's/Father Francis Cameron
Calliope House/Andy DeJarlis' Jig/The New Fiddle
Prince Charles' Last View of Scotland
Highland Laddie/The White Cockade/The East Neuk of Fife
Nicole Fikory's/?/Boston Life/Trad. Reel/Old Dutch Churn

Some D jigs from Natalie MacMaster's "Fit as a Fiddle"