May Fiddle Club Tunes

As it happens, I had asked my girlfriend to bring my contribution to the Fiddle Club potluck, a roasted leg of lamb, so she could join us and hang out at the jam. But due to circumstances outside her control - a faulty meat thermometer and an oven thermostat that's not to be trusted - the lamb arrived quite late, and the jam began with some tunes to hopefully speed it along:

Sheep Running About
Cheap Mutton
Ram's Horns
The One Horned Sheep
The Moffat Ram
The Lambing Storm
A Yowe Cam to wir door Yarmin
Da Blue Yowe
Ewie with a Crookit Horn

And, after long last, the leg of lamb arrived! So we took a break for a dessert of meat, and returned to our tunes:

Lochanside/High Drive
Trip to Pakistan/The Fourth Floor
Sean Truibhas/Tam Lin
Jig by William Gillis/Stool of Repentance/Sailor's Wife/Grace Hay's Delight
The Nuptial Knot/The Wedding of Fair Ian's Sister
North Highland Dance (the 9/8 from Patrick McDonald)
Skye Air/The Quarryman/9 Pint Coggie (Laura Risk's)

Thanks to everyone for the tunes, and to Amy for the lamb!

May Royal Mile Jam Tunes

Thanks to everyone who came out to this month's Royal Mile jam session. We had some great tunes, with fiddles, cello, guitars, and of course my whistles & border pipes; and we did a few songs on top of that.

Links are to sheet music for some of the tunes & sets not in Fiddle Club.

Here's what we played:
Munlochy Bridge/Primrose Lasses/Hughie Shorty's
Morag Haig-Thomas/Thomas MacDonnell's/Willie Fraser/The Barrowburn Reel/Patterson's General Store
Lochanside
Muckin' o Geordie's Byre/Stool of Repentance/Off She Goes
My Love is But a Lassie Yet/O'er the Hills and Far Awa'
Pulling Bracken/Alex Dan MacIssac's/Brenda Stubbert's/Mutt's Favorite/High Road to Linton
Stan Chapman's Jig/Barrowburn Reel/Largo's Fairy Dance (w/ Skinner's variations)
Crossing the Minch (w/ Alasdair Fraser's ending)
Traditional Jig/The Wedding Jigs/The Detroit Jig
Calliope House (in D and E)/Andy DeJarlis' Jig/The New Fiddle/Hull's Reel
Sleepy Maggie/???/Trip to Pakistan/The Ale is Dear
Willafjord
Tam Lin/Sean Truibhas Uillichean/Lady Mary Hay's Scots Measure
Highland Whisky/The Devil in the Kitchen/Jack Daniel's Reel
Sarratoga Hornpipe/Reichwall Forrest/The Merry Making
Sarah the Merchant/The Smith's a Gallant Fireman
Harvest Home/Statten Island/Flowers of Edinburgh/Jackie Tar
Rob Roy MacGregor/Keep it up/High Drive
Sleep Soond ida Moarnin/The Drummer/The Drunken Piper
Terribus/Greenwoodside
A Man's a Man for a' That/Jenny Dang the Weaver
Bonnie at Morn
King George IV/The King's Reel
The Mason's Apron
Hi Ri Him Bo
Scalloway Lasses/Miss Forrester's
The Tongadale Reel/The Knockadhu Reel
The Road to Banff/Jig RunRig/The Atholl Highlanders

Also, we have pictures coming soon of the May and April jams, courtesy of Amy Gray.