So it's that time of year again where as fiddle players are in demand to play in the haggis...
I've been asked to "pipe" in the haggis for a dinner this Friday, but because the usual tune (Man's A Man For A' That http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4145) isn't the most rousing tune on fiddle, can anyone suggest a suitable replacement?
Does the music selection always have to be something from Burns? Does it always have to be anthemic? I vote for show tunes. Mel Brooks has written a lot of catchy stuff.
I'm a piper, been playing at Burns Suppers for 30 years, and nobody has ever asked me to play "Man's a Man" or any other specific tune. It's just "pipe in the haggis" and I play whatever pops into my head.
I do see, from the sheet music, that it doesn't fit onto the range of the Scottish pipes anyway. Few Burns songs do, which is why I'll be playing uilleann pipes this Saturday, as I do every year.
These American Burns Suppers are strange things: people reading poems they can't pronounce to a roomful of people who don't understand them (they being written in what amounts to a foreign language to Americans).
It really needs to be a march to "march" in the haggis, and the punters need to be encouraged to clap.
Scotland the Brave is the best known by the punters.
An upbeat chorus "The Flower of Rabbie Burns" is also suitable.
As I often have to address the haggis (due to lack of reliable Jocks), I can't play as well, so have the Black Watch pipes and drums on the ipod to play myself in.
Burns Night
Burns Night
So it's that time of year again where as fiddle players are in demand to play in the haggis...
I've been asked to "pipe" in the haggis for a dinner this Friday, but because the usual tune (Man's A Man For A' That http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4145) isn't the most rousing tune on fiddle, can anyone suggest a suitable replacement?
# Posted on January 24th 2012 by SmashTheWindows
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# Posted on January 24th 2012 by SmashTheWindows
Re: Burns Night
I've been known to play "Hey Ca' Through" once or twice.
Mr Gatherer has transcribed it:
http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=www.nigelgatherer.com/tunes/abc/abc6/heyca/0000
# Posted on January 24th 2012 by Weejie
Re: Burns Night
Rattlin' Roarin' Willie goes well with it.
# Posted on January 24th 2012 by Weejie
Re: Burns Night
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/26620
# Posted on January 24th 2012 by Weejie
Re: Burns Night
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7905
# Posted on January 24th 2012 by ceolachan
Re: Burns Night
Does the music selection always have to be something from Burns? Does it always have to be anthemic? I vote for show tunes. Mel Brooks has written a lot of catchy stuff.
# Posted on January 24th 2012 by Atahualpa Quigley
Re: Burns Night
I'd like to see someone try a Mel Brooks number at the Dailly "funny handshake" supper.
# Posted on January 24th 2012 by Weejie
Re: Burns Night
Here you go.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r_jc8_P8X0
# Posted on January 25th 2012 by Piece
Re: Burns Night
Another musical poet? ~ Tom Lehrer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKbd_Ajkex0
# Posted on January 25th 2012 by ceolachan
Re: Burns Night
I'm a piper, been playing at Burns Suppers for 30 years, and nobody has ever asked me to play "Man's a Man" or any other specific tune. It's just "pipe in the haggis" and I play whatever pops into my head.
I do see, from the sheet music, that it doesn't fit onto the range of the Scottish pipes anyway. Few Burns songs do, which is why I'll be playing uilleann pipes this Saturday, as I do every year.
These American Burns Suppers are strange things: people reading poems they can't pronounce to a roomful of people who don't understand them (they being written in what amounts to a foreign language to Americans).
# Posted on January 25th 2012 by Richard D Cook
Re: Burns Night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGgZjyZrdzg&feature=fvst
# Posted on January 25th 2012 by Solidmahog
Re: Burns Night
Here's something a little more irreverent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30d-Zgls62o
# Posted on January 25th 2012 by Johnny Jay
Re: Burns Night
It really needs to be a march to "march" in the haggis, and the punters need to be encouraged to clap.
Scotland the Brave is the best known by the punters.
An upbeat chorus "The Flower of Rabbie Burns" is also suitable.
As I often have to address the haggis (due to lack of reliable Jocks), I can't play as well, so have the Black Watch pipes and drums on the ipod to play myself in.
# Posted on February 7th 2012 by geoffwright