Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on January 29th 2004 by George Seto.
This tune has been added to 12 tunebooks.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Tea Gardens
M: 6/8
L: 1/8
R: jig
K: Gmaj
B2 c|d^cd b2 a|g2 d B2 d|cBc ezc|A3- A2 G|
FDF A2 d|f2 d A2 B|cBc edc|B3 B2 c|
d^cd b2 a|g2 d B2 d|cBc ezc|A3- A2 G|
DF A2 d|f2 d A2 B|cBc bfa|1g3:|2g3 g2||
z|B,DG BGD|B,DG Bdg|e^de B2 =d|c3- c2 B|
ABc ABc|a2 g f2 e|d^cd ed=c|B3 d3|
B,DG BGD|B,DG Bdg|e^de B2 =d|c3- c2 B|
ABc a2 g|f2 e A2b|c'bc' e2 f|g3|]
Tea Gardens
"Tea Gardens-Tea Gardens was composed by Angus as he was waiting for a bus in front of a Chinese place by that name in Sydney; he wrote down enough of it on the bus going home so that he could remember and sort it out later. It is the only one of Angus' compositions which he himself
recorded."
The recording is:
The Early Recordings of Angus Chisolm: Legendary performances of traditional Scottish Fiddling, Shanachie Records 14001, 1978
Also it is on the Traditional Music from CB Island at Cork University CD from Nimbus.
Howie MacDonald also recorded it on The Dance Last Night
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Note, the restaurant was then known as the Tea Gardens on Charlotte Street in Sydney Nova Scotia. In the 1960s, the name changed to the Maple Leaf Restaurant, which it retains to this day.
My father was one of the owners of this restaurant at the time the tune was composed.
George Seto
# Posted on January 29th 2004 by George Seto
Ages ago ... before I was aware of thesession's existence, I requested this tune via another site and George came to my aid within hours! This is a superb tune ... if a little technically challenging for me! Welcome to thesession George. Those who don't know the boul' Mr Seto, allow me to tell you that he's a fountain of knowledge and an all-round good egg.
# Posted on January 29th 2004 by Aidan Crossey
It has something of the feel of a two-step, rather than a jig.
# Posted on January 30th 2004 by ragaman
bar 13 doesn't add up. should there be a rest between the first two eigths?
# Posted on February 1st 2004 by Dont
Another Recording
Joe and JP Cormier's recording Velvet Arm Golden Hand also includes the Tea Garden as the first tune of the first set.
# Posted on January 23rd 2005 by George Seto
I agree with the two-step/quickstep feel of this one, as does the 64 bars of it...
# Posted on December 15th 2005 by ceolachan