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Flute and whistle music from Hailes Castle
The recording of this year’s summer excursion of students from FluteFling groups and the Scots Music Group is now available to play and download. The flutes and whistles were recorded in early June at Hailes Castle in East Lothian. On … Continue reading
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Tagged beginner, classes, community, East Lothian, flute, improver, Irish, portobello, Scots, Scots Music Group, tin whistle, traditional music
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End of Term: a Breton Waltz revisited
FluteFling finished for the summer with a Breton waltz. Valse de Galorn is a relatively simple tune in E dorian (has just two sharps*) that I also taught last year. I learned the tune from a recording of Shegui entitled … Continue reading
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Tagged beginner, Brittany, classes, edinburgh, flute, portobello, tin whistle, traditional music
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A brace of Irish reels: The Humours of Ballyconnell and The Drunken Tinker
We finished off the term for the FluteFling Improvers group with two strong Irish reels that are great for building up technique and lifting a session. They both make use of arpeggios to create a riff that drives the music … Continue reading
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Summer flutes and whistles at Hailes Castle
Last Sunday saw the summer excursion of the Edinburgh-based FluteFling and Scots Music Group traditional flutes and whistles. We boldly returned to Hailes Castle in East Lothian, having endured a very wet trip last year and couldn’t have had better … Continue reading
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Tagged beginner, East Lothian, edinburgh, flute, improver, tin whistle, traditional music
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FluteFling slip jigs from Northumberland and Scotland
This week in the Improvers class we looked at a slip jig as a companion to The New Claret, which we learned earlier in the term. The main focus was The Peacock Followed the Hen, a Northumbrian tune that is … Continue reading
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Tagged Border Gaitherin, classes, Coldstream, Gaelic, slip jig, tin whistle, traditional music
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SMG term ends with a bendy polka for whistles
The SMG summer term ended this week and we finished with the second of two polkas I learned from Conal Ó Gráda some years ago. A distinctive feature of this tune is the opening of the B part, which is … Continue reading
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Tagged classes, edinburgh, Irish, polka, Scots, Scots Music Group, tin whistle
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A new tune for the whistle: Kate Dalrymple
The SMG whistle class this week took a look at Kate Dalrymple, well-known reel that can often be heard in ceilidhs. As was pointed out in the class, this is used as the theme tune to BBC Scotland’s Take the … Continue reading
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Tagged beginner, classes, community, portobello, reel, Scots, Scots Music Group, tin whistle, traditional music
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Children’s Traditional Whistle Class in Edinburgh
Booking is now taking place for the Traditional Whistle classes at Portobello Music School in Edinburgh that will continue next term after the Summer holidays. Following on from a successful first year, there will be classes for beginners and those … Continue reading
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Tagged beginner, children, classes, portobello, Portobello Music School, tin whistle, traditional music
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New beginner jig: Ciamar a nì mi an Dannsa Dìreach?
This week the SMG Beginners whistle class consolidated The Iona Boat Song and began looking at a jig. This one is a piece of Gaelic mouth music called Ciamar a nì mi an Dannsa Dìreach? (How Can I do the … Continue reading
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Tagged beginner, classes, community, flute, Gaelic, jig, port a beul, portobello, resources, Scots, Scots Music Group, tin whistle, traditional music
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FluteFling end of term, SMG students concert
We finished off this term with reels for both FluteFling classes. The Improvers group learned one of my favourite Irish reels, The Otter’s Holt, composed by County Clare fiddler Junior Crehan. This completed a set of three tunes: The Maids … Continue reading
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Tagged flute, improver, Irish, portobello, reel, tin whistle, traditional music
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