Passionate North Staffordshire Oatcake (some say fruitcake but that's not pc) who picked up a good bunch of tunes from the Irish Community of Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme over the last 25 years. The group has faded, sadly, but the tunes never will or do.
Don't travel well - travel destroys communities. We move around too much. Scrap all cars and STAY PUT and maybe we'll meet in North Staffordshire some day. If its a choice between drinking and driving, DON'T DRIVE!.
Used to play a gut strung fiddle, but when that wasn't frenetic enough, had to submit to wire. Also tinkled mandolin and (a bit) bouzouki, but hard work, that.
More of a home bird now, but like to keep in touch. Play tunes on a spanish guitar now, and doubt if I could ever again play in fifths.
Ken
Tunes in Sithiwenasithi's tunebook: 11
| Tunes | Mountain Road | September 19th 2006 |
| Name | Type | Key |
|---|---|---|
| The Banks Of Lough Gowna | jig | Bminor |
| The Blarney Pilgrim | jig | Dmixolydian |
| The Chicago | reel | Adorian |
| Drowsy Maggie | reel | Edorian |
| The Fermoy Lasses | reel | Eminor |
| The Mountain Road | reel | Dmajor |
| Mrs. Crotty's Christening | reel | Dmajor |
| Out On The Ocean | jig | Gmajor |
| Paddy Fahy's | reel | Cmajor |
| The Pigeon On The Gate | reel | Edorian |
| Rakish Paddy | reel | Adorian |