Poll for Song a Week Social Group Week #434

[Barbara Shultz]

This poll is for the Song A Week Social Group Week #434.

One vote per member of the social group. If you suggested any of the tunes that are on this week's poll, please post a reply to this poll discussion, with a link to the tune you had in mind! I will try to post the winner in a timely manner on Friday, August 18, in the Song A Week Social Group forum.

If you are not yet a member, there's a link at the bottom of this post that will take you there! Please join us over there, we are the largest and most active Social Group at Mandolin Cafe!

[Gelsenbury]

I suggested the Bransle de Chevaux, or Horses' Brawl. It's a well-known medieval melody, which I thought might sound nice on mandolin. Standard notation and tab can be found here: http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/fo...es_bransle.htm

There are lots of examples on YouTube, but none on mandolin as far as I can tell. Here's a rendition:


I'll be on holiday without access to the Internet or a mandolin in a few days' time, but I hope to learn this tune soon. If you like it, vote to have a go in the Song-a-Week group!

[Jill McAuley]

Here's a version of The Launching of the Boat, an ITM reel and one of your choices in this week's poll. Goes nicely in a set followed by Lad O'Beirne's (as shown in this video), or followed by The Torn Jacket.