For those who haven't seen this yet:
JP Cormier is playing at the Old Triangle Pub from WEdnesday Feb 5th
through the Saturday 8th. This is the week PRIOR to the ECMAs.
It'll be a grand week! I plan to be there for Wednesday evening.
Perhaps others as well, we'll have to see.
For others during
At 07:11 AM 1/31/03 -0900, you wrote:
Scottish music would be so dull if everyone played exactly how people
played hundreds of years ago.
Yes, it would be dull if everyone played exactly the same thing. But old
Scottish music is not dull. I know that's not precisely what you said,
Cheyenne,
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Nigel said:
We're No Awa Tae Bide Awa:
Ted said:
There's a version from
Sensible words from Cheyenne. I would only add by way of reinforcement that
historical authenticity is never a sound way to judge traditional music - you
could easily say that the violin is a new import from Italy which only came
into Scotland in the late 1600s, and traditional musicians should
It seems to me that practically all these groups who are doing
interesting things with Scottish music could be called fusions. They
are all bringing in influences and ideas from different places and
adding them to the tradition. Same as people did long ago. The
tradition is built up
Fusion? That reminds me, whatever happened to Jesse Rae? ( For the
benefit of younger lurkers, think of a cross between Wham and
Groundskeeper Willie!) If he's Left the Building can I have his stage
gear?
Jonathan
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Fusion? That reminds me, whatever happened to Jesse Rae? ( For the
benefit of younger lurkers, think of a cross between Wham and
Groundskeeper Willie!) If he's Left the Building can I have his stage
gear?
Jonathan
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Jonathan Hill wrote:
Fusion? That reminds me, whatever happened to Jesse Rae? ( For the
benefit of younger lurkers, think of a cross between Wham and
Groundskeeper Willie!) If he's Left the Building can I have his stage
gear?
Jesse is alive and well, living in St Boswells or its environs,
Toby wrote:
I've long since given up on getting precise accuracy out of abc's. It's
a pleasant surprise when they're dead on, and you always know who's
abcs will usually be perfect. Usually Jack's are spot-on, because
precision seems to be an important element of his personality.
If Nigel was
As either Nigel or Derek alluded to a while back, the Hawaiian guitar
never quite made the grade. Mr Darwin sorts out *some* innovations.
The particular kind of fusion I was grumbling misanthropically about a
week or two back was Gaelic lounge-lizard jazz; I had a specific
performer in
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