Key signature: Edorian
Submitted on June 3rd 2003 by Berni.
This tune has been added to 71 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Witches, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Edor
EBBG FDDF|EBBF GABc|d2 AG FEDF|EBAF GE E2:|
gfeg Bgeg|fdad bdaf|gfeg Bgeg|fdaf fee2|
gfeg Bgeg|fdad bdaf|gaeg deBd|ABFA BEE2||
I learned this one from a friend of mine, a fiddleplayer from scotland; thats about all information i have about it. So maybe somebody else knows more about it...
# Posted on June 3rd 2003 by Berni
Witches
Not 100% sure, but I think this may be a composition of Eddie McGuire, the flute-player with Glasgow traditional band "The Whistlebinkies".
# Posted on June 3rd 2003 by Kenny
This is by 19th century Scottish composer Joseph Lowe. I think Jerry Hollan has recorded a version.
# Posted on June 4th 2003 by iainr
Witches -
The first part definately is in E Dorian ... but the second part? Is this in B Minor?
Has anyone figured out some chording to go with this marvelous bouncy tune?
# Posted on December 4th 2003 by 2situla
Witches
The singer I work with tells me that Witches Reel is the oldest recorded reel dating back to the late 1500's. Recorded in this case means written down; the reel was notated as part of the testimony at a witch trial that took place in Scotland.
If I'm not mistaken, there was even a version in the movie "Waking Ned Devine".
# Posted on October 2nd 2005 by Snakefingers
The Witches (reel)
It's the last two bars of this tune that really make it.
Trevor
# Posted on October 9th 2005 by Trevor Jennings
its by g. frame
# Posted on May 28th 2007 by Catherine..
no its not actually.. my mistake
# Posted on May 28th 2007 by Catherine..
The Witches Reel in the movie "Waking Ned Devine" is a different tune alltogether, although Shaun Davey might have been "inspired" by the original Scottish tune.
# Posted on December 5th 2007 by Gallowglass
I think Kenny has a tune from the Nineties Collection in mind called the Witches of Mull by Eddie McGuire. It's a completely different tune.
# Posted on November 11th 2009 by Calum
The Witches
This tune was composed by Joseph Lowe of the 19C. His brother Robert composed The Warlocks. Both tunes can be heard on the CD "A Fiddle Affair" track #2. Great tunes!
# Posted on October 22nd 2010 by kiki