Some of my tunes:
Storm Cloud (November 2006)
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/6516
The Dragonfly (Double Jig) August 2005
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/4850
The Laughing Seagull (Double Jig) August 2005
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/4834
Time Has Not Been Kind (Double Jig) August 2005
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/4832
Rattle His Bones (Reel) July 2005
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/4722
Blencathra (Double Jig) March 2005
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/4342
Potted Biography
I had violin and piano lessons as a child so can read music. I waited for years for the job of Lead Guitarist with Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd have the to come up but was held back by lack of talent and the stubborness of both of Jimmy Page and Dave Gilmour in not making way for me! Many years passed.
Around 2002, I stumbled into Scottish and Irish traditional music. On an impulse I bought a mandolin. Early in 2003 I joined the now defunct Carlisle Session Club and started learning traditional tunes in the twice monthly 'workshops'
We established a fortnightly session at the Near Boot in Carlisle (which is still running five years later)).
In July 2003 (and again in 2004) I attended Colm O'Rua's Mandolin/Banjo course at Sabhal Mor Ostaig (the Gaelic College) Skye. This probably the most important step in my continuing learning as it helped me understand how to play traditional music - rather than just reading it or copying others
In January 2004 I got a piano accordion as a 'challenge' (it still is).
In April 2004 I become re-united with the violin (now called apparently called the 'fiddle') after a few decades of neglect.
In August 2004 I saw the group Lunasa play and some mystical force has driven me into getting a Low D Whistle. It's probably a good thing for my neighbours that I can't (yet) afford to buy a set of Uillean Pipes!
In June 2006 Dave Freshwater finally finished building me an Octave Mandola
What next? Actually I think the guitar is a much neglected melody instrument so....
My main likes (vary frequently but) currently include, in the traditional area: Altan, Lunasa, Shooglenifty, the Bothy Band, Croft No.5, Afro Celts, Flook, Michael McGoldrick
Having been weaned on classical notation, I am very impressed by the simplicty and economy of the ABC system for notation and I think the ABC Navigator 2 software package is brilliant - and it's free!
My partner Dawn is also a musician
Tunes in Edgar Bolton's tunebook: 28
| The Bubbling Wine | reel | November 12th 2009 |
| The Funny Whistle | reel | October 21st 2009 |
| The Wren's | hornpipe | December 31st 2006 |
| Storm Cloud | jig | December 17th 2006 |
| Mazurka La Pleau | mazurka | October 17th 2005 |
| The Hills Of Glengarry | Aonghas Grant | December 2nd 2007 |
| Six By Two | Emily And Hazel Askew | September 30th 2006 |
| Haven | Flook | November 28th 2005 |
| Tacsi. Ceol | Lynn Saoirse | August 20th 2005 |
| Dancing To Jigs And Reels | Lynn Saoirse | April 12th 2005 |
| Guitar Alchemist | January 31st 2006 |
| Brampton Live | February 10th 2005 |
| Solfest | February 5th 2005 |
| Daimh | November 16th 2004 |
| The Black Cock | August 17th 2008 |
| The Bush Inn | August 17th 2008 |
| Old Crown | March 3rd 2008 |
| Queen Inn | February 22nd 2008 |
| The Near Boot | June 6th 2004 |
| Online petition to save the Brampton Live musical festival | December 3rd 2007 |
| Finger injuries? | August 20th 2005 |
| Tunes | The Funny Whistle | October 21st 2009 |
| Tunes | For a good recording... | October 21st 2009 |
| Discussions | Paddy's Trip to Scotland (see above) | August 4th 2009 |
| Tunes | It's Scottish and quite old | January 13th 2009 |
| Recordings | Just got a copy on vinyl | January 5th 2009 |
| Name | Type | Key |
|---|---|---|
| Buntata's Sgadan | reel | Amajor |
| Paddy Ryan's Dream | reel | Aminor |
| Rattle His Bones | reel | Aminor |
| Time Has Not Been Kind | jig | Aminor |
| The Wren's | hornpipe | Amixolydian |
| Nighean Donn A Chuiailein Riomhaich | jig | Cmajor |
| Tuttle's | reel | Ddorian |
| Franc A'Phoill | jig | Dmajor |
| The Jig Of Slurs | jig | Dmajor |
| Jackie Coleman's | reel | Dmajor |
| Little Donald In The Pigsty | reel | Dmajor |
| Triplets For Breakfast | reel | Dmajor |
| The Laughing Seagull | jig | Dmajor |
| Chuir Iad Mise Dh'Eilean Leam Fhin | waltz | Dminor |
| The Hag At The Churn | jig | Dmixolydian |
| Down The Back Lane | jig | Dmixolydian |
| The Dragonfly | jig | Dmixolydian |
| Roscommon | reel | Edorian |
| The Burnt Leg | reel | Edorian |
| The Man Of The House | reel | Eminor |
| Storm Cloud | jig | Gdorian |
| The Pigtown Fling | reel | Gmajor |
| Out On The Ocean | jig | Gmajor |
| Over The Moor To Maggie | reel | Gmajor |
| Muineira De Casu | jig | Gmajor |
| Dunphy's | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| Miss Johnson | reel | Gmajor |
| Mazurka La Pleau | mazurka | Gmajor |