My name is Chris.
My background is mostly bluegrass guitar, (frailing) banjo, and mandolin, but in the last 8 or 9 years I've been focusing more on the anglo concertina and accordion. The switch from strings to buttons has been.. a reorganization of sorts.
Speed has its moments, but I'm a sucker for funny old hornpipes, barndances, spooky mix. jigs which appear to be thinking between keys, and just about anything that loses its character if it is played too fast.
I wish more people would play the 'standards' in A or Bb.
I have two cats that snore, and a parakeet that never sleeps.
Tunes in gravelwalks's tunebook: 32
| Norrgimma | hornpipe | July 15th 2008 |
| The Spot | hornpipe | July 8th 2008 |
| Cooper's | hornpipe | February 11th 2007 |
| Watkin's Ale | three-two | November 4th 2006 |
| Teviot Bridge | jig | January 29th 2006 |
| Morning Dew | King's Galliard | October 11th 2008 |
| Country Fiddle Band: One Hundred Years Of Country Dance Music | New England Conservatory Country Fiddle Band | September 22nd 2007 |
| West Country Melodeon | Bob Cann | March 2nd 2007 |
| The Dusky Meadow | Donald MacLellan With Doug MacPhee | February 1st 2007 |
| Her Mantle So Green | Margaret Barry And Michael Gorman | January 31st 2007 |
| The Virtual Gramophone, Canadian Historical Sound Recordings | June 22nd 2006 |
| Finbar Furey, more.. | May 4th 2008 |
| ITM Torrents | June 23rd 2007 |
| BBC 'Listen Again' archives to mp3 | June 11th 2007 |
| Castagnari | April 20th 2007 |
| Jeff Babicz guitars | March 1st 2007 |
| Discussions | Re: The Session Overhaul. | October 14th 2008 |
| Discussions | Re: Not music related, but sure about money | October 14th 2008 |
| Discussions | Re: Not music related, but sure about money | October 14th 2008 |
| Discussions | Re: Beginner Session - How to start one? | October 14th 2008 |
| Discussions | Overhaul? | October 14th 2008 |
| Name | Type | Key |
|---|---|---|
| Teviot Bridge | jig | Amajor |
| Rosemary Brown | waltz | Amajor |
| Father Bernie's | hornpipe | Cmajor |
| Oot Be Est Da Vong | reel | Dmajor |
| Cooper's | hornpipe | Dmajor |
| Clee Hill | reel | Dmajor |
| Johnny O'Leary's | polka | Dmajor |
| The Cliffs Of Dooneen | waltz | Dmixolydian |
| From Galway To Dublin | hornpipe | Edorian |
| Galway Bay | hornpipe | Gdorian |
| Brigid Of Knock | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| Seamus O'Brien's | waltz | Gmajor |
| Callaghan's | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| The Boar's Head | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| The Boys Of Ballycastle | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| Dunphy's | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| The Crooked Bawbee | waltz | Gmajor |
| Alston Flower Show | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| The Swalwell Lasses | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| Mympwy Portheinon | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| The Thames | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| The Cage | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| Oot Pik | waltz | Gmajor |
| Henry Cave's | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| The Biddlestone | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| The Burn Deviot | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| Bill Black's | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| The Circus | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| Coogan's Barn | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| The Bishopley | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| Tents | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| Bubba Martin's Old Time Kick About | hornpipe | Gmajor |