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 sour
> A hermitage would originally have been the home
> of a hermit, or holy man who placed himself in seclusion for religious
> reasons. As such, they often became sacred sites at a late stage. Im
> not sure why either Dunkeld or Lord Breadalbane should be associated
> with
A long time ago, Nigel wrote:
> A couple more tunes from The Wick Scottish Country Dance Band - I
> wonder if anyone can decipher the Gaelic for me? Addie Harper's
> Hawaiian guitar has to be heard to be believed! He plays a mean tenor
> banjo
>
> X:320
> T:Innis Dhombs' Ca'l Cadal
> D:Wick S.C.D
Peter wrote:
> This reminds me of an earlier post, which gave an abc of Tony Cuffe's
> tune, Wendel's Wedding. By the way, I'm very glad to have that, and
> grateful for that post. Anyway, I noticed that in the first part of the
> tune, most of the "pairs" of notes were weighted, either long-sho
Stuart wrote:
> The retreat march is not, as Stan suggests, necessarily a march time tune
> which would be marched to - as often as not it was played as part of the
> evening ritual in the military camp as day duties gave way to night ones.
> It
> was not linked to the military manoeuvre of retre
