Nigel wrote: > According to Jerry Holland, Altan credit Derry fiddler Dermot > McLaughlin as the source, but the title suggests he got it from > elsewhere. Aly Bain played a set of "The Hawk" by James Hill going into > a Shetland version of "The Hawk", and I'd bet that that was the > original source.
More likely. The Shetland Fiddler was around in the mid-70s at least. Aly Bain recorded the Hawk with Alistair Anderson on the 1972 album 'Alistair Anderson plays English concertina'. Trailer LER 2074. He plays it in G (the notes say this is a Northumbrian version learned from Billy Pigg, N pipe legend) and D (a Shetland version). Hill's original is in E. The Shetland Fiddler is like the D version, with the second part changed to make it easier, and maybe a little funkier. Other tunes... > Lady Dorothy Stewart (jig) Credited to Aeneas Rose (1832-1905) pipe major of the Atholl Highlanders. Written for Lady D (daughter of said Duke) on her marriage to Harold Ruggles-Brise. Don't know how many tunes he had named after him. Written as a 6/8 march, by the way. Source is said to be in D Glen's Collection, vXI. My source is J Murray Neil's The Scots Fiddle v1. > Birsay Beach (jig) Recorded by Jim Cameron Band and the Wrigleys, but source unknown. Birsay Beach is in Orkney. Derek Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
