Unclouded Day: A Bluegrass gospel tune allowing you to show off your chops! Mando tabs and chords: http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/am...cloudy_day.htm
This song even has a melody:
Or, if this seems to advanced, another hymn: Pass me not o gentle Saviour Tabs and sheet music: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/m...t+MANDOLIN.pdf
The Sailor's Wife, a Scottish jig: Mando tabs in e-minor:http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/fo...ilors_wife.htm d-minor:http://www.nigelgatherer.com/tunes/tab/tab7/sailw.html
Crisscross wrote: "Or, if this seems to advanced, another hymn: Pass me not o gentle Saviour Tabs and sheet music: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/m...t+MANDOLIN.pdf" That's a nice one.
Will Fly played a nice version as an Other Tune, but i t never was a Poll tune: The Anniversary Waltz - from "Waves of the Danube
Same goes for Danny Boy It only appeared as an Other tune: http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/ma...derry_Air).htm
I'm cleaning up this list again! I depend on you all to help me keep this list populated! It's OK to suggest tunes that are already here as 'other tunes', but I'd appreciate it, if when you send me your suggestions, you do a quick check of our 'official tunes' to make sure we don't have a duplicate! You can make the suggestions here in this discussion, along with a video link, if you'd like. It also helps me if you can include the genre along with the title. I try to populate our polls with a variety of tunes, but our list is in serious need of some Bluegrass tunes, and more Old time! I have taken tunes out of this list, that were previously in the list, voted on, and either won, or never did. It's perfectly fine for you to suggest a tune that has already been on the list, and never made it, and tunes that are already covered under "other tunes". All I ask is that you don't suggest tunes that have already been a Tune of the Week! Irish Reels The Liffey Banks (reel) (511,512) chosen For the Sake of Old Decency (reel) Rakes of Mallow (reel) (hmmm also submitted as a polka) The Palm Tree The Holly Bush The London Lasses (519)chosen P. Joe's Reel The Blackberry Blossom The Curlew The Eel in the Sink The First House in Connaught The Green Mountain The Hunter's House Lad O'Beirne's O'Connell's Trip to Parliament (504, 505,506, 507)xxx Beare Island Irish Hornpipes The Long Lane Miscellaneous Carl MacKenzie (Cape Breton) (note... I can't find this, just that Carl MacKenzie is a fiddler!) Colin MacKay's Reel Colin Macintosh Reel Owny's Best Jig (Scottish) (510, 511, 512)xx Back of the Change House Reel (Scottish) Dolmar Reel (Cape Breton by Dan R. MacDonald) Tom Dey Strathspey (Scottish via Cape Breton by J. Scott Skinner) The Earl Crawford's Reel (Scottish) We Three Kings of Orient Are (452) New Suggestions: Field Mice (contemporary Chip Bach in Old time genre) (link above) Grey Owl - old-time fiddle tune (link above) (510) chosen Obama's march to the Whitehouse - Old time tune (link above) Hut On Staffen Island" (hornpipe) (link above) (509) chosen The Valiant ~ English jig by Simon Ritchie (link above) (513) chosen Glory in the Meeting House (link above) (519,520) (suggested by Woodwizard) Here are a few OT suggestions for future tunes to try... along with some Norman Blake tunes Half Past Four Bull at the Wagon (507, 508,509)xx Coming Down From Rising Fawn (Blake) (518) chosen Valley Head (Blake) Ruins of Richmond (Blake) (512, 513, 514)xx Abe's Retreat L & N Rag (511) chosen Mike in the Wilderness Goin' Across the Sea (great Bill Monroe instrumental) (515,516, 517) xxx Lantern in the Ditch Little Billy Wilson Twin Sisters Sara Armstong's Tune Fort Smith Breakdown (513, 514) chosen Cowboy's Dream Cuffey Old Joe Waynesboro Liberty Off the Corn Likker Still Santa Anna's Retreat Avalon Quick Step Boston Boy Indian Ate a Woodchuck Dubuque Ship in the Clouds The Rose of Tralee (Irish) (508) chosen Mazurka des écoliers de Saint Genest by Gilles Chabenat - French mazurka (video below) (520) I’ll fly away - hymn La Valse Ollu (video above) Wavelry (video below) tribute to John McGann (508,509,510)xx The Famous Baravan Pipe tune by Gordon Duncan (video above) Elzic's Farewell / Elzick's Farewell (video links above) Pass Me Not O Gentle Saviour ~ gospel (video above) (517, 518)xx The Sailor's Wife ~ Scottish jig (514, 515) chosen The Anniversary Song Danny Boy Pays de Haut /Reel de Gaspe French Canadian (507) chosen Reel St. Antoine French Canadian Tiny's Rag (518,519,520)(video below) Miss Rowan Davies (video below) Wind on the Heath (slow scottish air) (516,517) chosen Three Little Birds (Bob Marley) (515, 516) chosen
Tiny's Rag https://www.folkrag.org/tunes/2014.html
Miss Rowan Davies, another nice tune by Phil Cunningham: http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/se...wan_davies.htm
Christian, delighted to see this posting from you. I know this band well and they are building up a really good following here in Scotland. The guitar player is a close friend (his father and I were English teachers together for many years) and he is married to the fiddler! I was at their wedding.
Yep, Miss Rowan Davies, that is a Classic. Love the timeless part of it.
I really like this one too.
Wind on the Heath, Scottish slow air See https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/g...cussionid=6606
‘Singin’ don’t worry, ‘bout a thing. ‘Cause every little thing is gonna be alright ‘ Enjoy! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f5hVZcabu8A
Just a reminder that this is the place to make your suggestions for tunes you would like to see in future polls. The discussion that I posted Sept 30, 2019, contains the most recent list that I am working from. If you go back through the past discussions, you will see that I create a new, updated list about once a year (but I edit it throughout the year). I remove tunes that have won previous polls, and I remove tunes that were in polls, but never won. I usually let a tune stay in a poll for 3-4 polls, before dropping it. Please look do a search of 'Table of Contents ~Official Tunes"to make sure this tune doesn't already have a discussion as an official tune, before suggesting it. Other than that, anything goes. It's ok if it's already been an 'other' tune (but it would be nice if you let me know that; you can do that by doing a search of the "Table of Contents ~ other tunes", or if it's been on a poll, and never won. I would greatly appreciate it if you would include the genre of the tune, when you make the suggestion. And, if you have any videos you could link, that helps, too. I take these suggestions, and I add them to the current list. I try to populate the poll with a variety of genre, so that is why it is extremely helpful to me, when choosing the tunes for the poll, for me to know what genre it is.
I'd like to suggest (week #22) Flowers of Edinburgh. Thanks Barbara.
I'm cleaning up this list again! I depend on you all to help me keep this list populated! It's OK to suggest tunes that are already here as 'other tunes', but I'd appreciate it, if when you send me your suggestions, you do a quick check of our 'official tunes' to make sure we don't have a duplicate! You can make the suggestions here in this discussion, along with a video link, if you'd like. It also helps me if you can include the genre along with the title. I try to populate our polls with a variety of tunes, but our list is in serious need of some Bluegrass tunes, and more Old time! Irish Reels For the Sake of Old Decency (reel) (527, 528) Rakes of Mallow (reel) (hmmm also submitted as a polka) The Palm Tree The Holly Bush P. Joe's Reel The Blackberry Blossom The Eel in the Sink The First House in Connaught The Green Mountain The Hunter's House Beare Island The Long Lane (IT hornpipe) Miscellaneous Carl MacKenzie (Cape Breton) (note... I can't find this, just that Carl MacKenzie is a fiddler!) Colin MacKay's Reel Colin Macintosh Reel Back of the Change House Reel (Scottish) Dolmar Reel (Cape Breton by Dan R. MacDonald) Tom Dey Strathspey (Scottish via Cape Breton by J. Scott Skinner) The Earl Crawford's Reel (Scottish) We Three Kings of Orient Are (452) New Suggestions: Obama's march to the Whitehouse - Old time tune (link above) (suggested by Woodwizard) Half Past Four Valley Head (Blake) Abe's Retreat Mike in the Wilderness Lantern in the Ditch (527, 528) Little Billy Wilson Twin Sisters Sara Armstong's Tune Cowboy's Dream Cuffey Old Joe Waynesboro Liberty Off the Corn Likker Still Santa Anna's Retreat Avalon Quick Step Boston Boy Indian Ate a Woodchuck Dubuque Ship in the Clouds I’ll fly away - hymn La Valse Ollu (video above) The Famous Baravan Pipe tune by Gordon Duncan (video above) Elzic's Farewell / Elzick's Farewell (video links above) The Anniversary Song Danny Boy Reel St. Antoine French Canadian Miss Rowan Davies (video above) Ashland Breakdown (Bill Monroe) Up and Around the Bend (Bela Fleck BG) Dusty Miller (OT and Bill Monroe) I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky The Man of the House (irish reel) Paddy's Gone to France (irish reel) The Beauty Spot (irish reel) The New Mown Meadown (irish reel) My Darling Asleep (Irish jig) The Lilting Banshee (Irish Jig) Hardiman the Fiddler (irish slip jig) New Suggestions (Mike Romney) Wild Horse at Stoney Point Ashland Breakdown Dusty Miller (527) chosen My Father’s Footsteps Road to Malvern Brown County Breakdown Daley’s Reel (this is spelled a bunch of different ways) The Humors of Derrycrossane Ballydesmond Polkas The Hills of Tara Kitty’s Wedding Hand Me Down My Walking Cane Devil’s Dream I saw the Light Little Maggie East Tennessee Blues Rabbit in a Log Somewhere Over the Rainbow Limehouse Blues Autumn Leaves Jug of Punch Master Crowley’s New Rochelle Ornithology Waltz of the White Lillies From Martin Jonas Sunset Over Ayr (Scottish waltz) For Ireland I Won't Say Her Name (Irish air/song) Mist-Covered Mountains (Scottish air) A Trip To Paris (English country dance) Portsmouth (English country dance) Crested Hens (French waltz) An Paistin Fionn (Irish slow air) Sir Charles Coote (Carolan) A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation (Scottish air/song) Lament for Abercairney (Scottish slow air) The Arran Boat Song (Scottish) Ragtime Annie (Old-time) Go And List For A Sailor (English morris dance) The Gentle Maiden (Irish waltz) Carolan's Welcome Home (Carolan) L'inconnu de Limoise (French mazurka) 40 Somre (Danish) Tommy Peoples Mazurka (Irish mazurka) The Bonny Bonny Broom (English country dance/song) The South Wind (Irish/English slow air) The Full-Rigged Ship (Shetland jig) Hole In The Wall (English hornpipe) The Red Piper's Melody (Welch air/waltz) Coilsfield House (Scottish slow air) Blind Mary (Carolan) A Bruxa (Galician waltz) Soling Anders's Waltz (Swedish) Song Of The Seashore (Japanese waltz) The Abbotts Bromley Horn Dance (English country dance) Drive The Cold Winter Away (English country dance) from Gelsenbury Schwabisch (German traditional) (video link below) (528) The Hole in the Hedge (Irish jig) (video link below) The Four Poster Bed, Scottish traditional Up the Yellow Ladder, set of jigs by David Hansen, previously played as an "Other" tune Humphreys Waltz, by Daniel Nestlerode (video link below) The Jam at St. James, previously played as an "Other" tune N'oublies pas, French waltz, previously played as an "Other" tune The Moon and Seven Stars, previously played as an "Other" tune Paspie Minuet, previously played as an "Other" tune Andet Brudestykke, previously played as an "Other" tune
The above is our current poll list that I am working from. This is the discussion to please add your suggestions (with genre noted) and I will see that they get on the current list! Just remember, please do a quick check to see if the tune you are suggesting, has ever been an official tune. If it hasn't then anything goes! It's ok if it already has a discussion, or if it has already been on a list, and never voted in! If we are going to continue to have a poll and an official tune (now every TWO weeks instead of every week), it completely depends on you, our group members, to keep this poll list populated!
I'd recommend looking for a way to open it back up and spur enthusiasm and participation. The group has been going more than 10 years. We're kinda down to obscure strathspeys and jigs. A quick survey of the tunes on Peghead Nation or a similar site would yield a list of bluegrass, Celtic and Old Time tunes avid mandolinists are working on. Personally speaking, at this point I am game for anything. I currently am beating my head against Charlie Parker's bebop classic "Ornithology." I'm happy to tackle a mazurka. But if we could travel back in time to when I was playing my first decent mandolin and participating here every week, I would've been working hard to get my head around "Drowse Maggie," "Tripping Up the Stairs" and "Salt Creek." What if we revisited some of the tunes people cut their teeth from the standard repertoire across the styles represented here? I do see the merit in pursuing never-played tunes, but at some point you either fall off the edge of the world or end up back at your starting point. : ) Early on we did that old warhorse, "Soldier's Joy." There are 209 posts to that string. A song like that is maybe more accessible than my recent "Glory in the Meeting House" submission. Just my two bits.
Mike, upon your suggestion back in February to me in a private message, I recently started revisiting our past official tunes of the week. So, one week, we have the winner of the current poll, and the next week, we revisit a past poll winner. For simplicity sake, i just started back at the beginning. So far, we have revisited weeks 1, 2, 3 and 4. I got carried away sewing masks on the week I should have revisited week #5, so that will be this Friday. In fact, on April 17, we DID revisit Soldier's Joy, which was week #4. I have noticed that right now, especially since the pandemic, more people are at home and making videos and submitting them under the category known as 'other tunes'. Rather than waiting on learning whatever the next official tune is, they are just recording their favorites, and submitting them. And, that's great. It may just be that this group evolves into just that, a place where you can record whatever you want and submit it for others to enjoy. It seems like you are suggesting that I should go search out a list of tunes that avid mandolinists are working on, and populate the list from it. All I'm asking is for the people who are participating in this group, do just that, search out tunes of whatever genre there is, that they would like to see on future polls, and then do a search of our official tunes (which can easily be done from the Table of Contents ~ Official Tunes) to make sure that they haven't already been a previous poll winner, and then send me the suggestions to add to the list. I hope that all of the members who are interested in this group continuing, and continuing to have at least one poll every two weeks, who find themselves socially isolating with extra time on their hands, help me out, and do this! I see this group, and everything we have done for the past 10 years, as a great repository of tunes. Rather than have the same tune having numerous discussions devoted to it, I have worked hard to keep the discussions for a particular tune, together. In those rare instances where we have had the same tune be an official tune in two different weeks, I've tried to make sure the two discussions are linked together. Same thing when we have a tune that is an 'other tune' and then gets to be an official tune. In my mind, it made the most sense, for people who are interested in a particular tune, and finding these tunes that have had a discussion and a bunch of comments and videos, to be all in one place. That is why, when you suggested to me back in February, that going back to the tunes we did in the beginning might spark more interest, I did it in such a way that I went back to the original post, edited the title to include ~REVISITED, and brought it back up to the current discussions. That way, it was brought back up, but the new submissions would be in the same discussion as 10 years ago, and if one is interested, they can read through all the discussions, and see all the submissions, over the past 10 years.
I would say the group is pretty open at present and we all have the opportunity of posting whatever we choose here, either as a response to the Official Tune, Other Tune, or now also a Revisited Tune (developed from a PM from Mike to Barbara). Looking at the official poll results over quite a long period it seems that there are very few votes ever cast for the tunes on offer, and at times there are virtually no videos posted of the winner. I think there is a very active and very small group of regular posters here and a very large group of browsers who derive a lot of pleasure from the postings and regularly respond to them. We post our offerings for two different sets of listeners, I feel: those who are also posters and who like to see what we are doing and add their comments and their own interpretations of the tunes, and those who come in as browsers and just enjoy what is on offer. We have often seen someone joining who introduces himself/herself with the comment about being a "long-time lurker" who has decided to join in and contribute. It is always great to see this happening. As a long-time and fairly regular poster here (and perpetrator of some of the "obscure Strathspeys" Mike mentions) I often find that I have not heard of any of the tunes in a particular week (I note Ginny too made this point recently) and do not feel qualified to vote on them. When you look at the regular posters here, there seems to be a wide variety of genres being offered from traditional through to themes from the movies, and maybe what Barbara says "It may just be that this group evolves into just that, a place where you can record whatever you want and submit it for others to enjoy" is the way the group will evolve. I always feel for Barbara who puts so much effort into keeping this great group going and those lists she compiles regularly then bumps to keep them in circulation are, as she says, a great repository of music. Interesting times and I wonder if the increase of postings will continue at the current high level when we are once again free to go out and play live music with our bands and at sessions again.
Being guilty of what John refers to as a 'long time lurker', I wanted to add my thoughts about this group / site / resource . . . . whatever you want to call it. I have played music my whole life and consider it a necessity for living - just like breathing air and eating food. (Wow - sounds deeper than I intended). The point being, up until about age 60, I had very limited exposure to Bluegrass, Celtic, or really any European music. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I had to google what a Strathspeys was, as well as a mazurka and others that have been posted on here. My musical literacy was pretty much focused on Blues, Rock, Country, Classical and Folk, with my instrument of choice being some type of guitar. When I started attending local bluegrass / old-time jams and trying to learn to play a mandolin, I was in dire need of an education of fiddle tunes. I don't remember who suggested this site as a resource, but I checked it out in 2014, and I don't think there has been a span of two or three days when I wasn't 'checking out' a tune to learn. Not only is the notation or tablature usually available, there are various performances of the same tunes available, and that in itself is a tremendous benefit for someone trying to learn a new instrument and a new genre. The work that Barbara puts into this site/group does not go un-noticed, as well as the contributions of the many musicians that take the time to post their work. I for one believe this to be one of or maybe even the best repository of usable knowledge available on the internet, especially for an old geezer like me. Since getting older I have noticed several facts: my fingers don't move quite like they used to, I can't read and play notation like I used to, it takes more time to get tunes in my head and under my fingers, and for some reason it takes a lot longer to loosen up than it used to? But the joy and satisfaction of learning a new piece and playing it so it sounds good (to me) is still a desire I hope to never loose. This site/group has introduced me to so many different types of music and wonderful songs that I never knew existed, as well as the means to be able to learn them - what more can a person ask for? How ever this group evolves, I hope it continues for years and I want to thank Barbara and everyone who contributes or contributed in the past. Thank you.
With new tunes every two weeks, revisited classics every two weeks, and the facility to post something as an "other" tune, surely there's something for everyone. We certainly have no shortage of posts at the moment. I can't keep up with learning all these tunes.
I agree Dennis and Bad Habbits. Barbara does an extraordinary job. And Dennis, I see there is no shortage of posts lately, and I try and make a comment on everyone's post and then again on their YT channel. But recently there have been so many, I can't keep up. My question is...do people want a comment on their YouTube channel..or do they not. ? I assume they do but I may be wrong, sometimes it's like mine is the only comment...what do you think?
Thanks for all the input, and the compliments! I think you are all spot on. I am happy that some (many) of you feel about this group, the way that I feel about it, and it's usefulness for learning, and for pleasure, and for social interaction! I love that so many people are recording and submitting their work in the 'other tune' category. And, I always hope that if others take an interest in that submission, they feel that they can learn it, and submit it in a reply to that discussion. It's always great to hear/see many interpretations of a single tune. And, I truly appreciate (and I am not good about doing it) that members take the time to watch and read and respond to other members posts. Early on, I was an avid poster and contributor. Now, not so much. I try my best to stay on top of what's going on, keep the polls going and keep the table of contents updated, etc. I haven't been playing any instruments much this year at all, with the craziness that's been going on, in my life, and in the world in general! And, my recording 'set up'... well, my aging computer, my speakers have quit working, and my music editing program went to hell, so I haven't made a video in forever! Excuses, excuses! I'm just so thankful that we do have the dedicated members who contribute regularly. Keep it up!
Ginny, I forgot to comment on your comments question. I think it's nice to comment both places. However, a lot of my you tube comments are on my cleavage 10 years ago, haha!
Many of these have been done, but off the top of my head here's a list of tunes I'd work up a video-this version to post. Cheers. Camp Meeting on the Fourth of July Cluck Old Hen Chinquapin Hunting Old Joe Clark Angeline the Baker The Squirrel Hunter The Eighth of January Clinch Mountain Backstep June Apple Soldier’s Joy Midnight on the Water Over the Waterfall Whiskey Before Breakfast Billy in the Lowground Jerusalem Ridge St. Anne’s Reel Gold Rush Red Haired Boy Temperance Reel Lonesome Moonling Waltz Sail Away Ladies Wild Horse at Stoney Point Asland Breakdown Denver Belle Dusty Miller Big Sand River My Father’s Footsteps Cattle in the Cane Road to Columbus Forked Deer Evening Prayer Blues Road to Malvern Cuckoo’s Nest New Camptown Races Lither Britches Asland Berakd Down Big Sciota Bill Cheatam Shove that Pig’s Foot a Little Deeper in the Fire Old Dangerfield EMG Big Mon Cherokee Shuffle Temperance Reel Boston Boy Brown County Breakdown Fisher’s Hornpipe Daley’s Reel (this is spelled a bunch of different ways) My Darling Asleep Donnybrook Fair Lilting Bansheee Banish Misfoertue The Humors of Derrycrossane Fig for a Kiss Foxhunters The Star Above the Garter Ballydesmond Polkas Farewell to Whiskey The Home Ruler The Hills of Tara Kitty’s Wedding Libery Nine Pound Hammer Hand Me Down My Walking Cane Devil’s Dream I saw the Light Golden Slippers Little Maggie Red wing Tennessee Waltz Tennessee Blues East Tennessee Blues Rabbit in a Log Rawhide Big Sandy River Big Sciota Jerusalem Ridge Minor Swing All of Me Sweet Georgia Brown Somewhere Over the Rainbow Limehouse Blues Autumn Leaves Lonesome Moonlight Waltz Foxhunters Fig for a Kiss Josephine’s Waltx In My Father’s Footsteps John Brown’s March Jug of Punch Master Crowley’s Nail that Catfish to a Tree New Rochelle Orni\thology Road to Malvern Sitting On Top of theWorld Teardrop Waltz Temperance Reel Waltz of the White Lillies
Mike, I went to the site you recommended, and added the tunes that we have not already had as official tunes. If you want me to go through that list you just sent, and add the ones that haven't already been official tunes, I will.
Mike, I went through the list you sent, and came up with 26 that we hadn't already done as tune of the week, so I added them! Thanks! And, if all those others that HAVE been done as tune of the week, at any point, anybody can bring that discussion back up to current, add a video and invite others to do so, as well!
Thanks for all your hard work here, Barbara. You definitely started the coolest thing on the Cafe site, after the site itself and the classifieds, of course! : )
I like getting comments from everyone, and Ginny too. I was wondering, were there a lot of women playing mandolin on SAW 10 years ago?
Simon, no there weren't a whole lot of women early on, and sadly, some of the women who did participate, have either left or gone silent!
Further to all the useful comments above, I appreciate both aspects of the group -- an outlet to post and discuss my recordings of more-or-less-obscure tunes that I want to try out, and the nudge towards learning an new tune not of my choosing every two weeks. Some tunes are so ideomatic that I feel uncomfortable playing them without being immersed in the genre (e.g. many of the bluegrass and some of the old-time tunes), but most others I'm happy to have a bash at. I'm hanging back a bit on proposing new tunes and voting because I have such a large backlog of tunes I've recorded over the past ten years that I find it difficult to assess what others here might enjoy. However, here are a few that go down well with our weekly mandolin group and that I think everybody here might enjoy as well. Recorded examples for most are on my channel (but sometimes in urgent need of re-recording because they've dated badly): Sunset Over Ayr (Scottish waltz) For Ireland I Won't Say Her Name (Irish air/song) Mist-Covered Mountains (Scottish air) A Trip To Paris (English country dance) Portsmouth (English country dance) Crested Hens (French waltz) Horgalaten (Swedish) An Paistin Fionn (Irish slow air) Sir Charles Coote (Carolan) A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation (Scottish air/song) Lament for Abercairney (Scottish slow air) The Arran Boat Song (Scottish) Ragtime Annie (Old-time) Go And List For A Sailor (English morris dance) The Gentle Maiden (Irish waltz) Carolan's Welcome Home (Carolan) L'inconnu de Limoise (French mazurka) 40 Somre (Danish) Tommy Peoples Mazurka (Irish mazurka) The Bonny Bonny Broom (English country dance/song) The South Wind (Irish/English slow air) The Full-Rigged Ship (Shetland jig) Hole In The Wall (English hornpipe) The Red Piper's Melody (Welsh air/waltz) Coilsfield House (Scottish slow air) Blind Mary (Carolan) A Bruxa (Galician waltz) Soling Anders's Waltz (Swedish) Song Of The Seashore (Japanese waltz) The Abbotts Bromley Horn Dance (English country dance) Drive The Cold Winter Away (English country dance) Martin
Schwabisch (German traditional) The Hole in the Hedge (Irish jig) The Four Poster Bed, Scottish traditional, previously discussed at https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/g...719&do=discuss Up the Yellow Ladder, set of jigs by David Hansen, previously played as an "Other" tune: https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/g...706&do=discuss Humphreys Waltz, by Daniel Nestlerode: The Jam at St. James, previously played as an "Other" tune: https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/g...539&do=discuss N'oublies pas, French waltz, previously played as an "Other" tune: https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/g...774&do=discuss The Moon and Seven Stars, previously played as an "Other" tune: https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/g...273&do=discuss Paspie Minuet, previously played as an "Other" tune: https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/g...645&do=discuss Andet Brudestykke, previously played as an "Other" tune: https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/g...766&do=discuss
Thank you for your suggestions! Our list is robust again!
Schwabisch is a great one Dennis, now THAT’S a foot tapper! -and there’s even the langsame version which, while practicing, can be langsamed down. I like Dennis’s idea, I’d like to propose all the 100 tunes that I posted this last year, which believe it or not I only posted because I like them and I thought a certain number of you might like too. There are some that are already SAWs. There is only a couple out of the one hundred however that I didn’t much care for but included because everyone else seems to. It’s basically any tune that I posted in the last year that is now on the Other Tune list.
Lockdown will soon be a thing of the past I’d like to propose: We do a Lockdown tune or song that has a set version # (from the Other Tunes list or thesession maybe). It’s not chosen for it’s title but for it’s melodic content or rhythm. We declare the exact tempo in advance, play just the one instrument of choice each (whatever), and then, because we are playing at the same tempo, combine parts of each vid into one long, say 4 part tune using the visuals from each person’s posting. (maybe use a bit more of Ginny’s )
Simon, that sounds like a good idea; a good idea for someone with the time and the knowledge to accomplish such an endeavor! That's not me! But, I know that there are many out there with the ability to do such a thing. I would think that the thing to do would be for whoever wants to attempt this, to just start a discussion with a catchy title (Lockdown tune collaboration, or something like that), and get it going!
Just a reminder! This is the most current list I am working from, for the polls. Irish Reels For the Sake of Old Decency (reel) (527,528,529,530)xxx Rakes of Mallow (reel) (hmmm also submitted as a polka) The Palm Tree The Holly Bush P. Joe's Reel The Blackberry Blossom The Eel in the Sink The First House in Connaught The Green Mountain The Hunter's House Beare Island The Long Lane (IT hornpipe) Miscellaneous Carl MacKenzie (Cape Breton) (note... I can't find this, just that Carl MacKenzie is a fiddler!) Colin MacKay's Reel Colin Macintosh Reel Back of the Change House Reel (Scottish) Dolmar Reel (Cape Breton by Dan R. MacDonald) Tom Dey Strathspey (Scottish via Cape Breton by J. Scott Skinner) The Earl Crawford's Reel (Scottish) We Three Kings of Orient Are (452,536) New Suggestions: Obama's march to the Whitehouse - Old time tune (link above) (suggested by Woodwizard) Half Past Four Valley Head (Blake) Abe's Retreat Mike in the Wilderness Lantern in the Ditch (527,528,529,530)chosen Little Billy Wilson Twin Sisters Sara Armstong's Tune Cowboy's Dream Cuffey Old Joe Waynesboro Liberty Off the Corn Likker Still Santa Anna's Retreat Avalon Quick Step Boston Boy Indian Ate a Woodchuck Dubuque Ship in the Clouds I’ll fly away - hymn La Valse Ollu (video above) The Famous Baravan Pipe tune by Gordon Duncan (video above) Elzic's Farewell / Elzick's Farewell (video links above) The Anniversary Song Danny Boy Reel St. Antoine French Canadian Miss Rowan Davies (video above) Ashland Breakdown (Bill Monroe) Up and Around the Bend (Bela Fleck BG) Dusty Miller (OT and Bill Monroe) I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky The Man of the House (irish reel) Paddy's Gone to France (irish reel) The Beauty Spot (irish reel) The New Mown Meadown (irish reel) My Darling Asleep (Irish jig) The Lilting Banshee (Irish Jig) Hardiman the Fiddler (irish slip jig) New Suggestions (Mike Romney) Wild Horse at Stoney Point Ashland Breakdown My Father’s Footsteps Road to Malvern Brown County Breakdown Daley’s Reel (this is spelled a bunch of different ways) The Humors of Derrycrossane Ballydesmond Polkas The Hills of Tara Kitty’s Wedding Hand Me Down My Walking Cane Devil’s Dream I saw the Light Little Maggie (532,533)xx East Tennessee Blues Rabbit in a Log Somewhere Over the Rainbow Limehouse Blues (534) chosen Autumn Leaves Jug of Punch Master Crowley’s New Rochelle Ornithology Waltz of the White Lillies (535) chosen From Martin Jonas Sunset Over Ayr (Scottish waltz) For Ireland I Won't Say Her Name (Irish air/song) Mist-Covered Mountains (Scottish air) A Trip To Paris (English country dance) Portsmouth (English country dance) Crested Hens (French waltz) An Paistin Fionn (Irish slow air) Sir Charles Coote (Carolan) A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation (Scottish air/song) Lament for Abercairney (Scottish slow air) The Arran Boat Song (Scottish) Ragtime Annie (Old-time) Go And List For A Sailor (English morris dance) The Gentle Maiden (Irish waltz) Carolan's Welcome Home (Carolan) L'inconnu de Limoise (French mazurka) 40 Somre (Danish) Tommy Peoples Mazurka (Irish mazurka) The Bonny Bonny Broom (English country dance/song) The South Wind (Irish/English slow air) The Full-Rigged Ship (Shetland jig) Hole In The Wall (English hornpipe) (530,531,532)chosen The Red Piper's Melody (Welch air/waltz) Coilsfield House (Scottish slow air) Blind Mary (Carolan) (529) chosen A Bruxa (Galician waltz) Soling Anders's Waltz (Swedish)(531,532,533)xxx Song Of The Seashore (Japanese waltz) The Abbotts Bromley Horn Dance (English country dance) Drive The Cold Winter Away (English country dance) (534,535,536) from Gelsenbury Schwabisch (German traditional) (video link below) (528) chosen The Hole in the Hedge (Irish jig) (video link below) (533) chosen The Four Poster Bed, Scottish traditional (531) chosen Up the Yellow Ladder, set of jigs by David Hansen, previously played as an "Other" tune Humphreys Waltz, by Daniel Nestlerode (video link below) The Jam at St. James, previously played as an "Other" tune N'oublies pas, French waltz, previously played as an "Other" tune The Moon and Seven Stars, previously played as an "Other" tune Paspie Minuet, previously played as an "Other" tune Andet Brudestykke, previously played as an "Other" tune Mazurka Schloss Freiberg (video below) Ginny and the Teepee (video below) (534,535,536) Valse Frontenac (videos below)
Bumping this up as a reminder to our members, that this is the list I'm working from!
What about this one - Mazurka Schloss Freiberg? It seems to be in G minor, but it's not too fast. One of those magical tunes.
Here’s a refreshing contemporary waltz, Ginny and the Teepee (!) Two links to it, I love the first, the mandolin playing style is something else. The second is the whole group. If this doesn’t get chosen as Song A Week, like now, then I’ll eat my hat! https://youtu.be/0XZcNZI5cH0 https://youtu.be/nU-dieltOQs
Isn't that drummer just the most laid-back performer you have ever seen? His drum kit is just so unique too.
From Dick Dery
Just a reminder! This is the most current list I am working from, for the polls. I've updated it, taking out the tunes we've already voted on (chosen or not) Irish Reels Rakes of Mallow (reel) (hmmm also submitted as a polka) (549,550,551) The Palm Tree The Holly Bush P. Joe's Reel The Blackberry Blossom The Eel in the Sink (540,541) chosen The First House in Connaught The Green Mountain The Hunter's House Beare Island Miscellaneous Carl MacKenzie (Cape Breton) (note... I can't find this, just that Carl MacKenzie is a fiddler!) Colin MacKay's Reel Colin Macintosh Reel Back of the Change House Reel (Scottish) Dolmar Reel (Cape Breton by Dan R. MacDonald) Tom Dey Strathspey (Scottish via Cape Breton by J. Scott Skinner) The Earl Crawford's Reel (Scottish) We Three Kings of Orient Are (452,536)xx New Suggestions: Obama's march to the Whitehouse - Old time tune (link above) (suggested by Woodwizard) Half Past Four Valley Head (Blake) Abe's Retreat Mike in the Wilderness (549,550)xx Little Billy Wilson Twin Sisters Sara Armstong's Tune Cowboy's Dream (547, 548)xx Cuffey Waynesboro (540) chosen Liberty Off the Corn Likker Still Santa Anna's Retreat Boston Boy Indian Ate a Woodchuck Dubuque Ship in the Clouds I’ll fly away - hymn La Valse Ollu (video above) The Famous Baravan Pipe tune by Gordon Duncan (video above) Elzic's Farewell / Elzick's Farewell (video links above) The Anniversary Song Danny Boy Reel St. Antoine French Canadian Miss Rowan Davies (video above) Up and Around the Bend (Bela Fleck BG) I'm Going Back to Old Kentucky (549) chosen The Man of the House (irish reel) Paddy's Gone to France (irish reel) The Beauty Spot (irish reel) The New Mown Meadown (irish reel) My Darling Asleep (Irish jig) The Lilting Banshee (Irish Jig) Hardiman the Fiddler (irish slip jig) (544,545) chosen New Suggestions (Mike Romney) Wild Horse at Stoney Point Ashland Breakdown (546, 547, 548)xx My Father’s Footsteps Road to Malvern Brown County Breakdown Daley’s Reel (this is spelled a bunch of different ways) The Humors of Derrycrossane Ballydesmond Polkas The Hills of Tara Kitty’s Wedding Hand Me Down My Walking Cane Devil’s Dream (540,541,542)chosen I saw the Light East Tennessee Blues (551) Rabbit in a Log Somewhere Over the Rainbow Autumn Leaves Jug of Punch Master Crowley’s New Rochelle Ornithology From Martin Jonas For Ireland I Won't Say Her Name (Irish air/song) Mist-Covered Mountains (Scottish air) A Trip To Paris (English country dance) (542,543,544)xxx Portsmouth (English country dance) Crested Hens (French waltz) An Paistin Fionn (Irish slow air) Sir Charles Coote (Carolan) (543)xxxxx A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation (Scottish air/song) Lament for Abercairney (Scottish slow air) The Arran Boat Song (Scottish) Ragtime Annie (Old-time) (544) chosen Go And List For A Sailor (English morris dance) (548) chosen The Gentle Maiden (Irish waltz) Carolan's Welcome Home (Carolan) (545) chosen L'inconnu de Limoise (French mazurka) 40 Somre (Danish) Tommy Peoples Mazurka (Irish mazurka) The Bonny Bonny Broom (English country dance/song) The South Wind (Irish/English slow air) The Red Piper's Melody (Welch air/waltz) Coilsfield House (Scottish slow air) A Bruxa (Galician waltz) Song Of The Seashore (Japanese waltz) (545, 546, 547) chosen The Abbotts Bromley Horn Dance (English country dance) from Gelsenbury Up the Yellow Ladder, set of jigs by David Hansen, previously played as an "Other" tune Humphreys Waltz, by Daniel Nestlerode (video link above) (541,542,543) chosen The Jam at St. James, previously played as an "Other" tune N'oublies pas, French waltz, previously played as an "Other" tune The Moon and Seven Stars, previously played as an "Other" tune Paspie Minuet, previously played as an "Other" tune Andet Brudestykke, previously played as an "Other" tune Mazurka Schloss Freiberg (video above) Valse Frontenac (videos above) Fields of Athenry - Irish Folk Ballad The Hare in the Corn - Irish Jig Mountain Dew - Old Time (550)chosen Katy Daly - Bluegrass (551)
I am bumping this post up. The most recent list above this post, is the list I am working from. As always, I welcome suggestions to add to this list. However, I ask a couple of favors. PLEASE look over the tunes in the Table Of Contents ~ official tune of the week to make sure it hasn't already been done as an official tune. I am OK with tunes that already have a discussion, but weren't an official tune. Secondly, it helps me if you would also include the genre. I TRY to populate the polls with tunes in various genre. However, I don't know most of the tunes that are suggested, and if you don't tell me the genre, I don't have any way to know! If you want, you can make your suggestions here, and I will add them to the list. It's great, too, if you can include a link to a video!
Again, I'm bumping this up so it's easy to find! The most recent list above this post, is the list I am working from. As always, I welcome suggestions to add to this list. However, I ask a couple of favors. PLEASE look over the tunes in the Table Of Contents ~ official tune of the week to make sure it hasn't already been done as an official tune. I am OK with tunes that already have a discussion, but weren't an official tune. Secondly, it helps me if you would also include the genre. I TRY to populate the polls with tunes in various genre. However, I don't know most of the tunes that are suggested, and if you don't tell me the genre, I don't have any way to know! If you want, you can make your suggestions here, and I will add them to the list. It's great, too, if you can include a link to a video!
bumping this up so it's easy to find
Fields of Athenry - Irish Folk Ballad The Hare in the Corn - Irish Jig Mountain Dew - Old Time Katy Daly - Bluegrass?
