Monday, March 15, 2010

March Fiddle Club Jam

We had a shorter jam at fiddle club this time around. I think we were all stuffed after dinner and (a few of us) sluggish from drinks.

But here are the tunes we played:
Clumsy Lover/Tail Toddle/High Drive
The Fourth Floor
Mary Claire
Garser's Dream
Ballendoire
Rights of Man
Wha' will be King but Charlie/Drummond Castle/The Apple Tree
Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch
Tommy's Tarboukas/Tam Lin/Captain Keeler
Duplin House (aka All the Blue Bonnets are Over the Border)
Prince Charles (aka King William)
Tongadale/Miss Shepherd/Mason's Apron
Knockadhu
Sitting in the Stern of a Boat
My Wife's a Wanton Wee Thing/Sailor's Wife/Turning of the Tide
Rachel Rae
Cam' Ye O'er Frae France (aka Keys to the Cellar)/Bobbin John

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

More Pretty Faces

Here are some photos of the March 2010 jam session, taken by Mary Hall. I'm hoping to get some more from Ben Williams, who took a few as well. Each thumbnail links to a bigger version. Enjoy!





Monday, March 08, 2010

March Royal Mile Jam

We had a great jam last night! Fiddles, cello, guitar, bodhran, and (from me) whistles, flute, and my new border pipes! Thanks to all for coming out, and I hope to have pictures of the jam soon.

Here's what we played:

Skye Dance #27
High Drive
Barrowburn/Flowers of Edinburgh/Spootiskerry/Willafjord
Muckin' o' Geordie's Byre/My Wife's a Wanton Wee Thing/Stool of Repentence
North Highland Dance #16/North Highland Dance #21/Soldier's Joy
Tongadale Reel/Knockadhu
Rob Roy MacGregor/Keep it Up/Hughie Shortie's
Calliope House/Andy DeJarlis'/The New Fiddle/MacArthur Road
High Road to Linton/The Sound of Sleat
Terribus
Neil Gow's Lament for James Moray of Abercairny, esq.
Smith's a Gallant Fireman/This is no my ain Hoose/Petronella/De'il Amang the Tailors/The Fairy Dance
Munlochy Bridge/Primrose Lasses
Neil Gow's Lament for the Death of his Second Wife
My Wife's a Wanton Wee Thing/Sailor's Wife/The Cushion Dance
Julia Delaney
Rathven Market
Nine Pint Coggie
(Laura Risk's version)
Mor a' Chennaich/Green Grow the Rushes (Lucky Black's Daughter)
Iggy & Squiggy
Clumsy Lover/Tail Toddle
Bonnie at Morn/Catherine Oggie
Hamish Henderson's Refusal/Tam Lin
Moneymusk S&R
Lieutenant Maguire/Jig Runrig/Atholl Highlanders
Lochanside
Stirling Castle/Forth Bridge
Willie Davie
Johnny Cope
East Neuk of Fife
24th Guards Brigade at Anzio
Mrs. MacLeod
Auld Lang Syne