Blueberry Rhubarb

jig

Key signature: Dmajor

Submitted on July 20th 2005 by ceolachan.

This tune has been added to 10 tunebooks.

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"Blueberry Rhubarb"

pie ~ crumble ~ cake ~ cheescake ~ muffins ~ tarts ~ cobble ~ sauce ~ wine ~ mmmm, mmm, good, and one of my favourite combinations... Strawberry Rhubarb is another winning combination. If anyone has a favourite recipe combining these things I'd love to see it... ;-)

# Posted on July 20th 2005 by ceolachan

Tasty tune! I especially like the jump in the second measure. It’s fun to do, and it really catches your ear.

Funny how a tune can be associated with something totally unrelated, and it functions like a mental placemarker. There’s no reason why this particular sequence of notes should be named Blueberry Rhubarb except that ceolachan wanted it to.

We have a stand of rhubarb that came originally from my wife’s grandparent’s garden. It’s been transplanted twice as we’ve moved about, but always manages to grow back. I don’t think I’ll ever see it come up in the spring again without thinking of this tune.

# Posted on July 30th 2005 by fidkid

cealachan, it's a lovely tune, did you wrote it?

# Posted on July 30th 2005 by gian marco

Yes, and I'd just baked these two fruits into a crumble when I started lilting this...

# Posted on September 6th 2005 by ceolachan

Fruit? Hmmmm? Can we really call rhubarb a fruit? It's a stalk, member of the dock family. So, is it a vegetable, like celery? Look, a tomato is a fruit so why wouldn't rhubarb be a vegetable? ("Please keep the comments relevant to the tune")

;-P

# Posted on September 6th 2005 by ceolachan

C -- send me your regular e-mail address and I'll send you my favorite Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie recipe as thanks for the help with the fling. - z

# Posted on September 6th 2005 by Zina Lee

Now all I need is Blueberry root stock

We had a soft rain last night, with rumble and flashing. I’ve heard that lightning helps fix nitrogen, at any rate, this morning the yard is preternaturally green. A colony of Mayapple unfurls their parasols, and the wild Woodland Poppies the Trout Lilies are intensely yellow. Riots of tulips and daffodils, rhododendron, forsythia exploding like popcorn. Walked around with my four-month old baby girl in my arms. In the back corner of the garden I discovered the first tiny green rosette of rhubarb stretching after a nice long sleep.

Came back inside to dig up this tune. Our little one, not too good of a judge, loves her Dad’s fiddling.

# Posted on April 23rd 2006 by fidkid

Bulueberries ~ vacinium ~

Nice one fidkid, I'm all smiles and warm inside. Did you ever get those blueberries? I don't know where you are, but I love all the wild types I've ever hunted down, North America, here on this isle, and of course in Eire. Wicklow has a lot of fine finger staining berries, and you can, if you are there at the right time and don't eat them all, get enough for a pie... It is definitely one of my favourite unions, blueberries and rhubarb...

You've a nice way with painting a scene with your words...

# Posted on July 7th 2006 by ceolachan

Up rhubarb!

The rhubarb's up. Quite a bit earlier than last year, it seems.

# Posted on April 3rd 2007 by fidkid

My annual playing of this tune

Snow melted late this year. I wandered out, picking up twigs and detritus, almost stepped on two wrinkled, palm-sized leaves.

MUST get this into my permanent repertoire. Thank god for the dots. And you too, c. ;-)

# Posted on April 23rd 2008 by fidkid