It is not a hornpipe, but an Irish set dance, so it would be played slow.
The Blue Eyed Rascal
Tag: Miscellaneous recordings
In Flanders Fields
To my great surprise, a few weeks ago I got an e-mail from the composer Barry Taylor, who lives in British Columbia, Canada. He informed me that he has a new choral arrangement for the tune and he is happy to share this melody and arrangement with us, and so I transformed it to be read and played by a concertina band as a slow air.
Rebecca’s Jig
The tune is contributed by Canadian member Robin Harrison as part of his Toronto session tunes book.
The Drystone Waltz
“The tune was written by me, and the arrangement was by both my daughter, Sophy, and I. So pleased you want to use it. The Well-Dressed Band (a ceilidh band based in the Peak District) have just recorded it for a demo CD.” – Dave Ball
The Wonder Hornpipe
Mormors speldosa
The title translates to: ‘grandmother’s music box’, so you might want to play it a little slower than I had my computer record it…