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Title: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Clive Williams on December 26, 2011, 11:02:25 PM
Here we are again folks, 4 more tunes to choose from:

First up, last month's runner up, Rabbit Stew - here's a lovely version by our own Joreema on Duet Concertina: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7bHlSQGadM&feature=youtube_gdata

Next, a tune that comes in many flavours, the Bear Dance (also known as Berendans and Krebbel Reidans) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lNJB84Gb-4 , or this splendid version (played on 3 instruments simultaneously!) where the tune is closer to the version I'd expect to hear in England, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOfiRgXV9B8&feature=related

Now a rather catchy little set dance number, 3 Sea Captains - one of those tunes that pops up in many different contexts, and would be useful in most sessions. Here's a nice version played on english concertina: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAOhFyLlBsU

Finally, a consistent favourite from the 'Favourite Morris Tune' thread, Molly Oxford (also known as Old Molly Oxford, also known as Stepback). Here's the wonderful Ed Rennie's wonderful version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYQMZeNA5aA

There we go folks, happy new year and happy voting!

Cheers,

Clive
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: waltzman on December 27, 2011, 12:02:06 AM
I think Mr. Rennie has got the hang of that box.....just delightful.
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Anahata on December 27, 2011, 10:03:27 AM
For the strict vegetarians among us, Rabbit Stew is sometimes known as Saut Du Lapin (Rabbit's leap or jump)
NB that's Saut, not Sauté which would put us back in the kitchen...

There seems to be much disagreement about what to do with bar 3 of the B music so I'll take it as an opportunity for variation - if the tune get voted in, of course...
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Lester on December 27, 2011, 11:13:37 AM
ABCs for your delectation and education:

X: 1
T: Rabbit Stew aka Saut du Lapin
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: G
BcBA GAGB | dz Bz A2z2 | ABcB ABcd |1 e2ef e2d2 :|2 e2 f2 g4 :|
gdBc d2ef | gdBc d2dd | ^cddd cddd |1 ^cddd edef :|2 e2 f2 g4 :|

X: 1
T:Bear Dance
M:2/4
L:1/8
K:Em
B2 E2 E4|B2 E2 E4|G2 G2 F2 G2|A4 G2 A2|
B2 B2 A2 A2|G2 G2 F4|E2 G2 FE D2|E8:|
E2 G2 E2 G2|F2 D2 D4|E2 G2 E2 G2|A6 GA|
B2 B2 A2 A2|G2 G2 F4|E2 G2 FE D2|E8:|

X: 1
T:Three Sea Captains
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:G
D|G2G BGB|c2A F2D|G2G BGB|d2BG2B|
cec A2c|BdB G2B|A2Bc2B|ABG FED|
G2G BGB|c2A F2D|G2G BGB|d2BG2B|
cec A2c|BdB G2F|EcB AGF|G3 G2d|
g2g dcB|ABc def|g2g dBd|ecA A2f|
gfg bge|fef afd|e2fg2f|ed^c def|
g2g dcB|ABc def|g2g dBd|ecA A2e|
gfg bge|fed AFD|EcB AGF|G3G2|]

X: 1
T:Old Molly Oxford (Step Back)
K:D
L:1/8
d2 cd e2 f2 | e2 dc Bc d2 | c2 A2 B2 G2 | A2 AG FG A2 |
d2 (3edc B2 AG |F2 A2 d4 | F2 (3FED E2 C2 | D4 D4 :||
AGFE D2 EF | G2 A2 B2 c2 | dcBA G2 A2 | Bcdf e2 ce |
d2 Bd c2 A2 |BGEF G2 B2 | AGFE D2 EF | G4 G4 :||
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Bob Ellis on December 27, 2011, 12:00:38 PM
Has anyone else noticed the the strong similarity between Saut du Lapin/Rabbit Stew and the well-known traditional French tune, Schottische à Catinaux? Methinks the former is a variant of the latter: the A music is almost identical.

Perhaps both tunes should be included if it wins, just as we did with Mominette and The Plane Tree a few months ago.
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Anahata on December 27, 2011, 12:28:48 PM
Has anyone else noticed the the strong similarity between Saut du Lapin/Rabbit Stew and the well-known traditional French tune, Schottische à Catinaux?

Yes.
Except I play Scottish à Catinaux the other way round, so it's the B music (I think I relearned it that way from Jean Blanchard, who I presumed knew what he was doing)
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: joreema on December 27, 2011, 02:02:18 PM
There is a different version I had last month:

X: 1
T: Rabbit Stew
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
B3A GFGB|dBGB A4|ABcB ABcd|edef e2 d2|
B3A GFGB|dBGB A4|ABcB ABcd|e2 f2 g4:|
|:gdBc d2 ef|gdBc d4|dDDd DDdD |edef e2 d2|
gdBc d2 ef|gdBc d4|dDDd DDdD|e2 f2 g4:|

Greetings,

Jo
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Jack Humphreys on December 27, 2011, 02:59:54 PM
I've just been wresting with noteflight to transcribe your  version,  Mr Joreema, only to find that, meanwhile,  you have just uploaded it yourself in abc !  I'm pleased to see that my version matches yours.  So here it is anyway  as an alternative ,  and  to be able use the Noteflight features, like slowing down, changing instruments, transposing to new key etc.

http://www.noteflight.com/scores/view/1984c2ee28cb12023e35e8fa26d5ddd20bdfdb0e (http://www.noteflight.com/scores/view/1984c2ee28cb12023e35e8fa26d5ddd20bdfdb0e)

Now to find out how to play the Joreema descending bassline in the B music. 

Much gratitude for the beautiful rhythm and articulation of this and the Ed Rennie tunes.  I love Melnet!
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Bob Ellis on December 27, 2011, 03:25:58 PM
Has anyone else noticed the the strong similarity between Saut du Lapin/Rabbit Stew and the well-known traditional French tune, Schottische à Catinaux?

Yes.
Except I play Scottish à Catinaux the other way round, so it's the B music (I think I relearned it that way from Jean Blanchard, who I presumed knew what he was doing)


I learnt it from Jean Blanchard's album Accordeon Diatonique. He didn't play it the reverse way round on that recording.
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Jack Humphreys on December 27, 2011, 04:00:41 PM
Just been having a go at the Rabbit, with the unusual experience of playing a major tune on my 12-bass CF box, so I can use the extra basses for the descending bass line.( It usually only plays minors.)  Then I realise I can play most of the phrases across the rows, without any significant push-pull action.
Then I realise that Mr Joreema is getting that wonderful jaunty rhythm WITHOUT PUSH-PULL, as his instrument is presumably same-note-both-ways.  Then on the other vid, we have Ed Rennie, also with great rhythm, but this time with push-pull.

So, assuming (please) that this tune wins the vote, it will be very interesting to compare the rhythmic qualities of players who play across the rows, with those who use  the more traditional push pull approach.  Melodeonists sometimes claim rhythmic benefits from push-pull style,  but Joreema doesn't need that to achieve his great results.  Personally, I have trouble keeping regular (matron) with push-pull, but then I didn't have the benefit of morris apprenticeship, that you can hear so well in Andy Cutting and Julian sutton amonst others.  Anyway, I'm going to learn it across the rows, to be like Mr J.  But, it does occur to me that, if you're not going to use the charm of push-pull,  might as well play an instrument with a sensible keyboard. (provocative twist there ).

Happy new year to all.
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Anahata on December 27, 2011, 09:14:50 PM
I learnt it from Jean Blanchard's album Accordeon Diatonique. He didn't play it the reverse way round on that recording.

Oh - maybe I learned it back to front somewhere else first - I know I heard him play it the opposite way from how I knew it.
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Pete Dunk on December 27, 2011, 10:12:02 PM
X: 1
T: Rabbit Stew aka Saut du Lapin
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: G
BcBA GAGB | dz Bz A2z2 | ABcB ABcd |1 e2ef e2d2 :|2 e2 f2 g4 :|
gdBc d2ef | gdBc d2dd | ^cddd cddd |1 ^cddd edef :|2 e2 f2 g4 :|

Lester this is a very odd abc file! I thought the main problem was that the B music doesn't have opening repeat marks which screws it up entirely but even with the |: in place it plays back very oddly in ABC Explorer and I'm at a loss to explain why!
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Lester on December 27, 2011, 10:34:09 PM
X: 1
T: Rabbit Stew aka Saut du Lapin
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: G
BcBA GAGB | dz Bz A2z2 | ABcB ABcd |1 e2ef e2d2 :|2 e2 f2 g4 :|
gdBc d2ef | gdBc d2dd | ^cddd cddd |1 ^cddd edef :|2 e2 f2 g4 :|

Lester this is a very odd abc file! I thought the main problem was that the B music doesn't have opening repeat marks which screws it up entirely but even with the |: in place it plays back very oddly in ABC Explorer and I'm at a loss to explain why!

Works perfectly well in ABC Nav 2  ???
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Lyra on December 28, 2011, 04:18:48 AM
works fine in skink
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Steve_freereeder on December 28, 2011, 08:11:15 AM
X: 1
T: Rabbit Stew aka Saut du Lapin
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: G
BcBA GAGB | dz Bz A2z2 | ABcB ABcd |1 e2ef e2d2 :|2 e2 f2 g4 :|
gdBc d2ef | gdBc d2dd | ^cddd cddd |1 ^cddd edef :|2 e2 f2 g4 :|

Lester this is a very odd abc file! I thought the main problem was that the B music doesn't have opening repeat marks which screws it up entirely but even with the |: in place it plays back very oddly in ABC Explorer and I'm at a loss to explain why!
Having the extra set of repeats at the end of each 2nd-time bar is not really very good ABC syntax, although it may work with some ABC decoders. (Barfly for Mac ignores the repeats at the end of the 2nd-time bars.)

As the intention is to have a standard length 8-bar A music (which is then repeated) and similarly for the B music, it is safer for all concerned to expand the coding to remove the 1st- and 2nd-time bars:


X:2
T: Rabbit Stew aka Saut du Lapin
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: G
P:A
BcBA GAGB | dz Bz A2z2 | ABcB ABcd | e2ef e2d2 |
BcBA GAGB | dz Bz A2z2 | ABcB ABcd2 | e2 f2 g4 :|
P:B
gdBc d2ef | gdBc d2dd | ^cddd cddd | ^cddd edef |
gdBc d2ef | gdBc d2dd | ^cddd cddd  e2 f2 g4 :|
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Pete Dunk on December 28, 2011, 03:34:10 PM
Well spotted Steve, it was the erroneous second time repeats that were messing things up!
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Lester on December 28, 2011, 04:04:23 PM
Well spotted Steve, it was the erroneous second time repeats that were messing things up!

Should I need any defence it is tha the tune was just a cut'n'paste from JC's Tune Finder  ;)
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Mcgrooger on December 28, 2011, 05:47:21 PM
Steve, I think your abc might have inadvertently acquired an extra half a beat in bar 7?
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Lester on December 28, 2011, 06:07:48 PM
Steve, I think your abc might have inadvertently acquired an extra half a beat in bar 7?

See you just can't trust people to provid ABC that works  ;D
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Pete Dunk on December 28, 2011, 06:15:41 PM
Should I need any defence it is tha the tune was just a cut'n'paste from JC's Tune Finder  ;)

No defence needed of course and the copy 'n' paste thing is great at passing on errors! It's surprising how differently the various ABC programs handle the code and can ignore some errors but not others.  :|glug
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Steve_freereeder on December 28, 2011, 06:28:10 PM
Steve, I think your abc might have inadvertently acquired an extra half a beat in bar 7?
Guilty as charged. Poor proof reading on my part, sorry   :|bl
Here's the correct version:


X:2
T: Rabbit Stew aka Saut du Lapin
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: G
P:A
BcBA GAGB | dz Bz A2z2 | ABcB ABcd | e2ef e2d2 |
BcBA GAGB | dz Bz A2z2 | ABcB ABcd | e2 f2 g4 :|
P:B
gdBc d2ef | gdBc d2dd | ^cddd cddd | ^cddd edef |
gdBc d2ef | gdBc d2dd | ^cddd cddd | e2 f2 g4 :|
Title: Saut du Lapin - Peak District version
Post by: Steve_freereeder on December 28, 2011, 06:47:52 PM
While we're on the subject, then....

I learnt this tune in various sessions in the Peak District from harmonica and fiddle player Don Edwards, who lives in Bradwell, near Castleton. Here's his version - it goes nicely on the melodeon and it is really effective if you can get the 2- or 3-finger explosive triplets going in bars 11 and 15! If you are playing a D/G box you can also play the triplet Ds with 2 fingers alternatively on the G-row and the D-row.

X:3
T: Saut du Lapin
T:From the harmonica playing of Don Edwards, Bradwell, Derbyshire
M: 2/2
L: 1/8
K: G
P:A
B>cB>A G>FG>B | d2 B2 A4 | A>Bc>B A>Bc>d | e>de>f e2d2 |
B>cB>A G>FG>B | d2 B2 A4| A>Bc>B A>Bc>d | e>de>f g4 :|
P:B
g2B2 d>de>f | g2B2 d4 | d2(3ddd d2(3ddd | e>de>f e>de>f |
g2B2 d>de>f | g2B2 d4 | d2(3ddd d2(3ddd | e>de>f g4 :|
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: GuyWyatt on December 29, 2011, 06:11:03 PM
Come on chaps, lets have Bear Dance to give me half a chance of posting for the first time in a year.  I am just so busy at the moment that I can only post on TOTM if I already know the tune.
Plus I am skiing for the first week of the month so even less time for playing.  Someone is going to say something about setting appropriate priorities, of course.

Cheers

Guy
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Susanne on December 30, 2011, 07:35:02 PM
I voted. Should have time to join in this month.   :|||:
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Pete Dunk on December 30, 2011, 11:09:02 PM
As a non-contributor my vote isn't fair so I've removed it. Keep up the good work folks!
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Clive Williams on December 30, 2011, 11:57:17 PM
Go Molly Oxford (he says forlornly!)  ;D
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Ollie on December 31, 2011, 12:10:12 AM
Go anything but Bear Dance! Please...  :-\
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: joreema on December 31, 2011, 06:44:32 AM
Excuse me but there is no bear dancing in the winter - the wrong tune for this time.  >:E
Perhaps a lullaby "Bear is sleeping" is okay.
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Chris Ryall on December 31, 2011, 08:04:49 AM
copied over from the 'why' thread ...

I'd suggest voting for something like the Bear Dance instead; a  lovely tune with lots of possibility, but really very simple to learn.

Gosh, we are being canvassed!

         Just to remind everyone that the 'Bear Dance' Blowzabella brought back in the 70's is a misremembered wrong version. The difference is only in one phrase but astonished Geert Oude Weernink in Whitney a couple of years ago. So we'd  need to go back to source?  

...  this might of course change Clive's order of batting ... (though not by much).

      btw They eat bear in Lapland (just the once in my case)!
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: xgx on December 31, 2011, 09:19:02 AM
Excuse me but there is no bear dancing in the winter .......

Oh! Yes there is!!      ;D

http://peterboroughfolkdiary.org.uk/straw.aspx

Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Graham Spencer on December 31, 2011, 09:30:34 AM
Just to remind everyone that the 'Bear Dance' Blowzabella brought back in the 70's is a misremembered wrong version. The difference is only in one phrase but astonished Geert Oude Weernink in Whitney a couple of years ago. So we'd  need to go back to source?

And of course, there isn't just one Bear Dance, any more than there's only one Princess Royal or one Constant Billy - there are many local variants. (One Princess Royal, there's only one Princess Royal............)
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Anahata on December 31, 2011, 09:41:39 AM
Excuse me but there is no bear dancing in the winter

You've never been to Whittlesea in January (http://www.strawbear.org.uk)... !

Go anything but Bear Dance! Please...  :-\
Yes... mine was a tactical vote  ;)
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: folkbluesnbeyond on December 31, 2011, 10:27:55 AM
Go anything but Bear Dance! Please...  :-\
[i concur and recognise the present trend as having been predictable. A part of the fun for me is not to vote, and then to make something (hopefully positive) of the result: (not a philosophy I apply to general elections in the main), all the best Bill.]
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: george garside on December 31, 2011, 10:32:55 AM
I make this post with some temerity as a non participant but could it be that the bear dance has most votes because most by earists have some idea of the tune?.  As many members of the forum are byearists  without dot or abc reading skills would it be possible  for  a very simple bare bones version of    suggested tunes  for t o m to be put on you tube or whereever so as to give everybody an even chance so to speak.

george
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Anahata on December 31, 2011, 10:43:02 AM
As many members of the forum are byearists  without dot or abc reading skills would it be possible  for  a very simple bare bones version of suggested tunes  for t o m to be put on you tube or whereever so as to give everybody an even chance so to speak.

There are Youtube videos of all the suggested tunes in the first post, - or is your point that they aren't "bare bones" enough? In which case... who's going to do it?
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Lester on December 31, 2011, 10:44:12 AM
The problem with democracy is you don't always get what you want  ;)

May be we should change to single transferable vote or some other proportional representation system, but there again we had a vote on that in the UK recently and we didn't want that either (well more didn't want it than did).
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Graham Spencer on December 31, 2011, 10:57:31 AM
The problem with democracy is you don't always get what you want  ;)

May be we should change to single transferable vote or some other proportional representation system, but there again we had a vote on that in the UK recently and we didn't want that either (well more didn't want it than did).

But would they still have not wanted it if it hadn't been a first-past-the-post vote? ???
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: george garside on December 31, 2011, 10:58:30 AM
As many members of the forum are byearists  without dot or abc reading skills would it be possible  for  a very simple bare bones version of suggested tunes  for t o m to be put on you tube or whereever so as to give everybody an even chance so to speak.

There are Youtube videos of all the suggested tunes in the first post, - or is your point that they aren't "bare bones" enough? In which case... who's going to do it?


Indeed - what I had in mind was  just  the bare bones of the melody without any bass  - just the right notes of the right length in the right order  thereby leaving any attempt at playing with'style' to the individual.  

Sorry I can't help as I don't have the means of recording for youtube or whatever
george
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Mcgrooger on December 31, 2011, 11:05:01 AM
Go Molly Oxford (he says forlornly!)  ;D
How is this lovely morris tune, which appeared recently as a favourite of so many here, getting overlooked while bears and rabbits are galloping away (not sure that bears or rabbits 'gallop' but you know what I mean)?!
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Anahata on December 31, 2011, 11:44:24 AM
How is this lovely morris tune, which appeared recently as a favourite of so many here, getting overlooked while bears and rabbits are galloping away (not sure that bears or rabbits 'gallop' but you know what I mean)?!

Certainly not overlooked here. I'd have voted for it, but I did it for a morris tunes theme of the month (whenever that was) so thought I'd go for something different/more challenging/I didn't know so well.
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: ladydetemps on December 31, 2011, 11:46:29 AM
Bear Dance....one of those marmite tunes. You like it or you hate it. lol!
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Graham Spencer on December 31, 2011, 12:01:57 PM
Well, I haven't voted because I don't really get the time to sit down and make a contribution so it isn't really fair me to cast a vote, but if I were to, my reasoning would go something like: "Rabbit Stew" doesn't really appeal to me - it's like any number of fairly ordinary tunes which can be brought to life by an accomplished player, but there's nothing about it that makes me want to learn it. "Bear Dance" I can take or leave; I've known a version of it (not the usual "session" version) for years and if it wins I could play it in my sleep, so I might end up making another contribution. "3 Sea Captains" I've known since my early days of playing for EFDSS-style dances in the 60s, and again it's a little ordinary - no real desire to play it again after all these years. "Molly Oxford" - beautiful tune, lovely dance to do; it's a bit of a challenge to get the "feel" right on a melodeon as it's so essentially a fiddle tune, but it would definitely be my choice. So that's a sort of vote-without-voting, I suppose......

Graham
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Sandy on December 31, 2011, 12:17:56 PM
Go anything but Bear Dance! Please...  :-\

I thought that at first and voted Molly Oxford. Changed my mind though. Would love to see what other melnetters can do with Bear Dance.
 (:)
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Jack Humphreys on December 31, 2011, 01:47:11 PM
Go Molly Oxford (he says forlornly!)  ;D
How is this lovely morris tune, which appeared recently as a favourite of so many here, getting overlooked while bears and rabbits are galloping away (not sure that bears or rabbits 'gallop' but you know what I mean)?!

I've just deleted a message which said that Molly Oxford wasn't suitable, as couldn't be  harmonised adequately on 8 basses,... as  Ed Rennie's harmonies did not follow the tune to my liking in the B part (and not just that final chord).   
But I've just tried it out on the box ,  and I did  find chords with 8 Basses which seemed right to me, and in  both keys ( G or D)  But this is with chords without the thirds.  You need B minor in the D version.  And I prefer to end the B section on a  C (in G) or G (in D).   So, yes! Vote Molly rather than Bear. (:) And Rabbit rather than Bear!  ;D
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Anahata on December 31, 2011, 02:11:47 PM
I've just deleted a message which said that Molly Oxford wasn't suitable, as couldn't be  harmonised adequately on 8 basses

http://treewind.co.uk/melnet/mp3/idburyhill-stepback.mp3 (skip to about 1'08" for the right tune)

If you don't have a B minor chord, either play B bass note only and fill in with RH chord, or use D chord which makes a Bm7 that usually works nicely.
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Ziachmusi/Louise on December 31, 2011, 03:46:38 PM
Still hoping there some lurking voters that will support Rabbit Stew at the last minute!!
If not then I'll change my vote to Idbury Hill (lovely mp3 fom Anahata :M)
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: joreema on December 31, 2011, 05:00:49 PM
O, you must be very happy!!! Heard that in Britain bears aren't sleeping in winter but are dancing on folk festivals. Can't believe it, but I start to be jealous.  ;)
Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Thrupenny Bit on December 31, 2011, 08:15:23 PM
Oh poo..... got this all wrong - started to learn Joreema's version of Rabbit Stew thinking it had won!
Still, love the McCann's basses, and for a moment regret not persuing the Duet.
Being a country lad, have always liked Rabbit however it came.
Q

Title: Re: Poll: Tune of the month for January 2012
Post by: Squirebox on January 05, 2012, 07:53:06 PM
What a fantastic quartet of tunes to chose from. For me Three Sea Captains followed by the Bear dance, even though I love Old Molly Oxford to bits as a Morris box man. That sounds a little like squeezing whilst sitting on the fence !
Peter
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