Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on April 12th 2003 by Dr. Dow.
This tune has been added to 16 tunebooks.
Also known as Stagshaw Bank.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Stagshaw Bank Fair
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
BGGB cAAc|BGGc Bdgd|BGGB cAAc|1 Bgd^c ded=c:|2 Bgd^c d3e||
|:dBdg eceg|fdef ga (3gfe|dBdg eceg|fdef ~g2fe|
dB~B2 ec~c2|dBGB AFDd|edef ga (3gfe|1 dBcA G3e:|2 dBcA G2dc||
A nice but maybe slightly obscure Northumbrian tune which I think deserves a bit of limelight.
# Posted on April 12th 2003 by Dr. Dow
The last C of the 1st part 1st time through is a C natural.
# Posted on April 12th 2003 by Dr. Dow
Stagshaw Bank Fair
This tune commemorates what was,until late Victorian times, the largest annual fair in Britain. It was supressed because it became synonymous with drunkeness, debauchery, licentiousness and most things that are fun.There was an enormous problem with petty crime.
Katherine Tickell plays it. Angels of the North link it with All Handson Deck and Morpeth Lasses--cracking16 bar Northumbrian reels all.
Noel Jackson
Angels of the North
# Posted on April 13th 2003 by noelbats
I play it in a set with the Morpeth Lasses in as well funnily enough, which goes: The Morpeth Lasses/Stagshaw Bank Fair/Stay A Wee Bit Bonnie Lad (all available at this site).
# Posted on April 13th 2003 by Dr. Dow
This is supposed to be played like a sort of polka. You can hear Kathryn Tickell playing it here:
http://www.artistdirect.com/store/artist/album/0,,344506,00.html
I prefer to speed these tunes up slightly and swing them like reels.
# Posted on March 28th 2004 by Dr. Dow
Some people play the last bar of the A-part with an E, not a D: |Bge^c d...
# Posted on August 15th 2004 by Dr. Dow
Also some people play the B-part only once through making it a 16-bar reel as Noel says.
# Posted on August 15th 2004 by Dr. Dow