Re: [scots-l] Tune ID

2001-07-31 Thread AIKUNTZ
In a message dated 7/31/01 2:03:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << The second is 'South of the Grampians', but it's been Tommied a bit. >> Thanks very much for the ID, Derek. Regards, Andrew Kuntz Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To s

Re: [scots-l] An Optimal Tartlet

2001-07-31 Thread Nigel Gatherer
Derek Hoy wrote: > ...the Jock Tamson's Bairns...limiting itself to hold a concert every > so often... Nothing as urgent as that, unfortunately! And I hope Jack Evans is found soon; it can't be very nice to be lost in multiple engagements (sounds like a phase in my earlier life). -- Nigel Gath

[scots-l] An Optimal Tartlet

2001-07-31 Thread Derek Hoy
I was trawling the web for reviews recently, and found one written in Italian. I had a go at translating, but there were too few references to strawberry ice cream or scooters for my Italian to cope. So I clicked on Google's translate button, with hilarious consequences... The translation is

Re: [scots-l] Tune ID

2001-07-31 Thread Derek Hoy
Andrew asked: > Tommy Peoples taught these Donegal Highlands at a workshop I attended last > week, but he had no name for them. Does anyone recognize them as Scottish > strathspeys? The second is 'South of the Grampians', but it's been Tommied a bit. Maybe we'll get him over here again one of t

Re: [scots-l] March to the Battlefield

2001-07-31 Thread Nigel Gatherer
Jack Campin wrote: > Anybody know where "March to the Battlefield" comes from? > ...It's played today as an Irish polka, the name of which I forget. > It sounds more Irish than Scottish to me... Can you give us the ABC version? > ...though it can't have started out as a polka (there were no I