Re: [scots-l] Burrolling, as we posh fowk call it
Nigel Gatherer wrote: > > Birlin > > This subject has provoked the biggest thread I've seen on Scots-L, so it's > obviously extremely important. Of course I'm completely eaten up with > jealousy because I'm not a fiddler. I don't even know whether I birl - how > can you tell? [1]. I shouldn't think it's physically possible on the > mandolin, but what about the whistle? I expect my proportion would be > 1:1:27 (something to ask at your next session: "Hi there, what's your > proportion in a birl?"). I personally never have called them "birls", always "cuts". I've heard cuttings on the mando before. It can be done! :-) Toby Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Official scots-l site
Ian Adkins wrote: > > Ur ye naw weel then Erica? > Nothing that a wee dram couldn't fix?? :-) Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
[scots-l] [Fwd: Celtic Events/gigs list]
Greetings from Celtic Events & Entertainment, Denver, Colorado. First an apology and request . Prior to the Holidays we had a ugly computer experience, resulting in the temporary loss of our Events/gigs list. We apologies to all for missing announcements over the past few weeks. Please let us know if you do not want to receive our weekly updates. Conversely, please let your friends/groups know if they would like to receive the updates at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for your interest and support, and best wishes for you in 2001. We appreciate your suggestions. With that in mind we will chronologically list the International touring performers first along with a description/quote in case you are unfamiliar with their music. Then we will list regionally acts/pubs, followed by notes/etc. Now – on to the good stuff! The Chieftains will be presented by the House of Blues and Paramount Foundation Monday , January 15th, 7:30pm at the Paramount Theatre,Denver. These Ambassadors of Irish music are flying in Natalie MacMaster and her fiddle, and Joan Osborne and her guitar for special guest appearances. Champion Irish Dancers Donny Golden and Cara Butler will add to the fun along with some local dancers and musicians. As of a couple of days ago there were only single tickets left. If single tickets are still available you would get them at TicketMaster Centers or charge 303-830-TIXS OR, for premium tickets to the Chieftains, call the Irish Community Center. They have secured tickets for the evening with the Grammy award- winning artists. Proceeds from these ticket sales will benefit the Irish Community Center. Tickets include free parking and a pre-concert cocktail reception from 6:00-7:15pm (Paramount-Upstairs Lounge)Call Marisa or Karen at the ICC 303-320-9480 for your seats now. Show Note: Have you Irish Set Danced? (not step dance) You don’t have to be good- just so you have danced a bit and know how to get around the house. Call us ASAP at 303-777-0502 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Great Big Sea, Friday February 2nd, 8pm, Special Guests – Yo Flaco! We SCORE! The action won’t be confined to the ice when the NHL All-Star Game Comes to Denver the first weekend of February. For their private party the NHL is bringing in one of Canada’s most popular bands GREAT BIG SEA. Fans and general public will also have an opportunity to hear these "stompers from the Celtic side of New Foundland" on Friday February 2, 8:00pm, at the Gothic Theatre 3263 S. Broadway. The four singer/multi-instrumentalists who comprise the group – Doyle, Bob Hallett, Sean McCann and Darrell Power – write and perform music that’s based in the traditions of their seafaring ancestors, yet infused with the youthful energy and free-spirited attitude of modern rock. Or, as The New York Times observed. "The songs on Great Big Sea’s recordings are as evocative of Newfoundland as were the Beach Boys of California." The band released three gold and multi-platinum albums, Up (1995), Play (1997) and Turn (1999). Five time winners of the Entertainer of the Year Award at the East Coast Music Awards, the band also has a slew of Juno nominations and other awards to their credit. Known for their incendiary and powerful performances, Great Big Sea has released a live album in Canada. The title Road Rage reflects their hard-working ethos and documents a band in love with traveling, their music, and the excitement of standing on stage in front of a crowd. 8:00pm show, 7:15pmdoors. All ages show. General Admission. Of course there is a dance floor! Call Celtic Events at 303-777-0502. Show note: When we were going to press with The Celtic Connection we got a call from GBS in regards to a possible show. That is why our CC readers did not see much in the January issue. Thanks to a little luck, the Gothic Theatre, and Yo Flaco!, we were able to quickly put the show together. Seven Nations "Hot pipes, blazing fiddles – Celtic Traditions with Rock ‘n’ Roll Attitude" How about those 7N poster boys? Buy now you have probably seen Scott, Stuby, Kirk, Ashton & Dave on full page Dewar’s ads in about every popular mag out there. One of the hardest working bands on the road Seven Nations continues their mutual love affair with Colorado at The Aggie Theater in Fort Collins Friday February 2nd, at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center , Saturday February 3rd, and at the Fox Theatre in Boulder Sunday February 4th.Call venues or Celtic Events 303-777-0502 Show Notes: Both Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center show and the Fox Theatre show in Boulder are All Ages/GA. The Aggie in FT. Collins is 21w/I.D. Jack Quinn’s in Colorado Springs are offering tickets at $3.00 off for the 7N Fine Arts Center show. Tickets can be purchase at the restaurant 21 S. Tejon St. No purchase necessary (it would be nice if you had a beer or bite to eat). LUNASA returns to Colorado March 1st and 2nd From the start, Lunasa has met with inst
Re: [scots-l] Internet Radio Station for Scottish Trad. Music
Orain Ghaidhlig wrote: > > Well, you're managing to offend most of the people some of the time, so in > my book you're doing something right... Ha..ha..ha... Thanks.. > Did you say there could be only 7 active connections to Radio Toby? No > wonder I haven't been able to connect! (gripe, gripe, grumble, grumble...) Yes, I need to do something about boosting the number of connections. I'm shooting on making about 10 concurrent connections. I'll annouce it when I add the additional connections. Toby Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Andy Dejarlis Jig
John Chambers wrote: > > Toby wrote: > | Wendy Galovich wrote: > | > At 10:18 AM 1/7/2001 -0500, Ian Adkins wrote: > | > >Somebody here got that dang-ol' Seven Dwarves virus... > | > Yeah.. I've received it twice so far and McAfee squashed it both times. > | > | Huh? Windoze viruses die a painful death on Linux machines :-) > > Not really. They just lie there dormant, waiting for someone or > something to transfer them to a more suitable host. Then they come > back to life. Kind of like all those eggs from the first Aliens movie. Sitting, chilling out on that barren planet, until some hapless human accidently gets too curious and gets infected by one of them. Involuntarily surrendering himself as a host for the seductively efficient and relentless xenomorphic predator? :-) > Ain't metaphors wonderful? > You bet! Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Re: Internet Radio Station for Scottish Traditional Music
George Seto wrote: > > Martyn Bennett would probably do it if he knew Gaelic. :-) > > Ummm. Toby, I believe he does. So Let's pass on the suggestion. > Isn't Martyn from the Lowlands? Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Andy Dejarlis Jig
Wendy Galovich wrote: > > At 10:18 AM 1/7/2001 -0500, Ian Adkins wrote: > >Somebody here got that dang-ol' Seven Dwarves virus... > > Yeah.. I've received it twice so far and McAfee squashed it both times. Huh? Windoze viruses die a painful death on Linux machines :-) Toby Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Internet Radio Station for Scottish Traditional Music
Ian Adkins wrote: > > Rapping in Gaelic?? Careful Toby, they just started that new permanent U.N. > tribunal for crimes against humanity. :P > Martyn Bennett would probably do it if he knew Gaelic. :-) Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Sailor's Wife jig
John Chambers wrote: > > Kate Dunlay wrote: > | > | >>I think for The Sailor's Wife Em is a more usual key than Dm. > | > > | >Not here it isn't - people play it in D minor or not at all (despite > | >it being in print in E minor for well over a century). > | > | I have only heard it played in D minor as well. > > There are 23 abc versions on the Net, all in D minor. Or D > dorian, of course, though the tune doesn't seem to have any > 6ths at all, so never mind. > > Well, there are three that are labelled "K:c". But they are > in D minor, too. > > Maybe I should put up a version in E minor. > Please put up the E minor version. If I like it, I'll play it in a set with some of Stan Chapman's very nice E jigs. BTW Stan, in addition to being an incredible music teacher (He taught Natalie MacMaster, Ashley MacIsaac, Jackie Dunn, and too many excellent players to name) has composed some nice tunes. All this in addition to being incredibly modest and soft-spoken. What a cool guy! :-) Toby Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Internet Radio Station for Scottish Traditional Music
"Eric A. Cottrell" wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Derek Hoy wrote: > > > > > > This sounds pretty good, just on a 33.6K modem here, but every few minutes it > > > stutters a bit. > > > > > > Why no DJ Toby?:) > > > > > > > Because I can't be there all day to DJ :-) Actually Win Amp prints the > > name of the tune and the performer in the little box at the top. > > Unfortunately the Real Audio player doesn't. > > Hello, > > Actually you could put some occasional Toby Radio id's in. Just put them in > the WinAmp playlist. I seem to remember some automation software around that > would let you do more complex stuff. Another idea is to record two or more > songs in one file and announce what thay are at the end. > Is anyone on here good at rapping in Gaelic? :-) Toby Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Andy Dejarlis Jig
Jack Campin wrote: > > > People have been commenting extensively on Andy Dejarlis Jig, but I'd > > like to add that I think for The Sailor's Wife Em is a more usual key > > than Dm. > > Not here it isn't - people play it in D minor or not at all (despite > it being in print in E minor for well over a century). > I would think that it's alot easier to play in D minor, at least on the fiddle. Can it even be played on wind insturments in Em? Toby Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Internet Radio Station for Scottish Traditional Music
Derek Hoy wrote: > > Toby said: > > > Why no DJ Toby?:) > > > > > > > Because I can't be there all day to DJ :-) > > That's no excuse- you could record the links. > > 'Coming right up...' > 'Don't touch that dial...' > 'Your tuned to Radio Toby...' > etc. > > Or are you always doomed to be a phantom? Yes, actually I could do that. That's actually a really good idea. Last night I moved the server to a location with alot more bandwidth which fixed alot of the frequent rebuffering. Then I experimented with increaing the streaming rate, but I found that it made it rebuffer even more for people connecting with modems. So I left it at 32 bits, which is the same as FM radio, which made the rebuffering rate more acceptable. The fidelty of FM radio sounds good enough for my purposes. I was able to sucessfully boost the maximum number of connections up to 7. Toby Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Internet Radio Station for Scottish Traditional Music
Derek Hoy wrote: > > This sounds pretty good, just on a 33.6K modem here, but every few minutes it > stutters a bit. > > Why no DJ Toby?:) > Because I can't be there all day to DJ :-) Actually Win Amp prints the name of the tune and the performer in the little box at the top. Unfortunately the Real Audio player doesn't. Toby Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Burns Night - Toasts to the lassies and to the laddies
Nigel Gatherer wrote: > > Hugh Goldie asked: > > > ...I would appreciate receiving any ideas about the contents of these > > toasts. We both would like to do something traditional, but perhaps a > > little bit novel... > Ask Ian, I'm certain he could come up with toasts that would do would put a smile on Mr. Burns face from the hereafter. That is if you don't mind "pseudo-doric" :-) Toby Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] hello
Rob MacKillop wrote: > > > Ye must be gettin' on in years ... > > My real name is Anon. Now to claim those royalties! > > > Any chance you might get back into performing in the next century? I > > suppose it can be hard after being away from it for a couple hundred > > years. > > St Andrews, 8 Feb Crawford Arts Centre, 7.30. Eftir that ye'll hae tae ging > tae Japan an America. Are we allowed tae write in Scots oan this list? > Rob Yes, Lallans, Gaelic and English are official languages of the list. John, the best Scottish music is from that era. All the new stuff wishes it were old :-) Toby Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
