My name is Chris. I study history at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida.
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 other side of the Atlantic, playing concertina and accordion, 30-button C/G and G/C, respectively. Can't get my head around the half-step system, maybe in later years I'll give it another whirl.
The switch from frets to buttons has been.. a reorganization of sorts.
Speed has its moments, but I'm a sucker for tunes with character: funny old hornpipes, the jaunty old-timey music hall stuff, barndances, country dances, the spooky mix. jigs which appear to be thinking between keys, bright little polkas and just about anything that loses its character if it is played too fast.
I wish more people would play the 'session standards' in A or Bb!
Tunes in gravelwalks's tunebook: 31
| 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 |
| 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 Civil War Collection | Jim Taylor | December 23rd 2006 |
| 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: 'Playing-in' of new reeds | October 6th 2008 |
| Discussions | Re: The old ones, the hackneyed and the easy | September 21st 2008 |
| Discussions | Re: Cyber-tunes in Liberty City | September 4th 2008 |
| Discussions | Re: Cyber-tunes in Liberty City | September 4th 2008 |
| Discussions | Re: Cyber-tunes in Liberty City | September 4th 2008 |
| Name | Type | Key |
|---|---|---|
| Brigid Of Knock | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| Father Bernie's | hornpipe | Cmajor |
| Callaghan's | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| From Galway To Dublin | hornpipe | Edorian |
| The Boar's Head | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| The Boys Of Ballycastle | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| Dunphy's | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| Alston Flower Show | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| Galway Bay | hornpipe | Gdorian |
| The Swalwell Lasses | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| Mympwy Portheinon | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| The Thames | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| The Cage | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| Henry Cave's | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| The Biddlestone | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| The Burn Deviot | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| Bill Black's | hornpipe | Gmajor |
| Cooper's | hornpipe | Dmajor |
| 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 |
| Teviot Bridge | jig | Amajor |
| Oot Be Est Da Vong | reel | Dmajor |
| Clee Hill | reel | Dmajor |
| Seamus O'Brien's | waltz | Gmajor |
| The Crooked Bawbee | waltz | Gmajor |
| Oot Pik | waltz | Gmajor |
| The Cliffs Of Dooneen | waltz | Dmixolydian |
| Rosemary Brown | waltz | Amajor |