I'm 55, and have been playing since I was 43. The reason I started playing the fiddle was by chance really. I was driving along listening to CBC radio and heard a fiddle tune that blew my mind in a way I had never heard before. I found out it was by Eilen Ivers and went out and bought her albums and started listening to them. I devoured everything she did and found myself going into ecstatic states to some of her tunes. It finally convinced me to rent a fiddle and take it further. Once I had a fiddle I was hooked.
I admit to liking to play the livelier tunes and less the slow ones. I realized recently that my whole purpose for fiddling was to fly....in my spirit that is. Sometimes I get going on a tune and become possessed and start doing crazy things I have never done before and feel like a whirling dervish with the bow.
I live in Victoria BC Canada and play with a few other people here and there.
Tunes in fiddlerpaul's tunebook: 22
| Tunes | Farewell to Ireland | February 5th 2003 |
| Name | Type | Key |
|---|---|---|
| The Swallowtail | jig | Adorian |
| The Star Of Munster | reel | Adorian |
| The Congress | reel | Adorian |
| Miss Sarah McFadyen | jig | Amajor |
| Frailach | hornpipe | Aminor |
| Sweeny's Buttermilk | reel | Bminor |
| Jennie's Chickens | reel | Bminor |
| The Pride Of Moyvane | reel | Ddorian |
| Another Jig Will Do | slip jig | Dmajor |
| The Rose In The Heather | jig | Dmajor |
| The Foxhunter's | slip jig | Dmajor |
| Jenny Pippin | reel | Dmajor |
| Toss The Feathers | reel | Dmixolydian |
| Jenny Picking Cockles | reel | Dmixolydian |
| Drowsy Maggie | reel | Edorian |
| The Templehouse | reel | Edorian |
| Arran Boat Song | jig | Edorian |
| The Exile's Jig | slip jig | Edorian |
| Lanigan's Ball | jig | Eminor |
| The Bunch Of Keys | reel | Gdorian |
| Out On The Ocean | jig | Gmajor |
| Glory | reel | Gmajor |