On 5 Apr 2010, John Dally wrote: > Playing through some of Jack Dodd's tunes today, I wondered if anyone > on the list could tell me about him, or send me to some resource on > the web that might have information about him.
Jack Dodd is still with us, and lives in Embleton. He is father to Margaret Watchorn (of this parish) - who presumably would be best placed to provide details. AFAIK he doesn't "do" the internet. He used to play pipes, and in my time, played banjo with Dishalagie. I received a lot of help from him when I first went to Alnwick pipers' meetings in the early 90s. He and George Mitchell (separately) gave me some really good advice, which I try to remember. I consider his tune "The Flowers of Ashgill" - in Alnwick's book 2 - to be one of the best old-fashioned waltz tunes ever - YMMV. Hope this helps Julia To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
