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Brigg Fair
« on: September 01, 2018, 09:43:34 PM »

A new YouTube from me accompanied using an old (and relatively quiet) Bb/Eb Hohner Modell 1 with eight basses.

https://youtu.be/ro-wM-F3zC8

If I had the room and the money, I think I'd like to own a suite of Modell 1s in all possible keys...

Hope you like it. If anyone's interested in the chords (they shift from major to minor, which I think works for this song), please let me know.

Gavin

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Re: Brigg Fair
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2018, 01:42:28 AM »

Hope you like it.

I like it. Really pleasant. Lovely.
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Re: Brigg Fair
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2018, 07:24:29 AM »

Nice version, enjoyed it.

It's interesting how songs change over time.  This is the original version as recorded by Grainger.  It is only two verses because that was all the singer knew.  The faster speed gives it a totally different feel.

Way back the band I was in at the time wrote a "B" part and used it as a dance tune, I'll have to see if I can dredge it up out the depths of my memory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdmgUM4LbS4
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Re: Brigg Fair
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2018, 09:30:21 AM »

Thanks Oggie...

Very few people sing Brigg Fair, I think because the song is so iconic: singing it invites some potentially difficult comparisons, both with the riginal recording and with formal world recordings such as this https://youtu.be/S7lSzZwnpy8 But as they say, songs are there to be sung, it doesn't do them any good to be unsung, and I hope more will sing this one, whether they did so high and highly decorated like Taylor or slower and more dreamy...

Growing up at Caistor and being a regular at Brigg folk Club in my youth I kind-of had to sing it, of course.

If they're allowed to do so, it's certainly striking how songs do change, even in the hands of a single individual. In the informal music world, it's normal to adapt songs for our own purposes, and they often change over time: perhaps a striking example with this particular song from my own musical life was a bluesy version that I sang with melodeon/horns/guitars band Florida nearly three decades ago...

Something I noticed many years ago is that the tune is a more interesting version of the second half of the Star of the County Down tune.

Gavin
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Re: Brigg Fair
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2018, 11:09:16 AM »

Very few people sing Brigg Fair

We did, years ago.. It occasionally comes out of the closet at the right time of year - typically at Sidmouth on 5th of August if possible.
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Re: Brigg Fair
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2018, 11:38:53 AM »

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Re: Brigg Fair
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2018, 11:43:20 AM »



We did, years ago.. It occasionally comes out of the closet at the right time of year - typically at Sidmouth on 5th of August if possible.
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Very nice you two! Different and very effective harmonies... This little tune has a /lot/ of scope for that.

G

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Re: Brigg Fair
« Reply #7 on: September 05, 2018, 07:32:19 PM »

I used to sing it at Uni folk club. But fairly simply.
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