Dancing Around The Mast

Dancing Around The Mast

I think this was the first tune I wrote on gaita, the bagpipe from Galicia in north west Spain, it’s certainly the first I have written down.

Stalker Castle – Slip Reel?

Stalker Castle – Slip Reel?

Here’s an interesting wee tune from The Piper’s Assistant, Published by Glen Bagpipe Makers in 1845 and edited by John McLachlan.

Fitas de António

Fitas de António

This tune has been floating about my head for a month or two. I wasn’t sure if it was a Portuguese tune that I had heard somewhere or a figment…

The Toffee Works – Lusty in Carnac

The Toffee Works – Lusty in Carnac

Around 10 years ago some pals and I put together an Anglo/Scots band to try and realise some musical ideas we had been thinking of for a while. We named…

Old-Time Tune: Barlow Knife

Old-Time Tune: Barlow Knife

I’ve had this tune floating around my head for a number of years now, one of those tunes that you can hum but never get round to learning. Well, I…

Old-Time Tune: Roscoe’s Gone

Old-Time Tune: Roscoe’s Gone

Here is my approximation of an old-time fiddle tune I heard yesterday on an album by American group The Stairwell Sisters. I couldn’t find it online so I just transcribed…