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... and here's a list of piano pieces...

Bygone Times Waltz
Carousel
Coraore
Cuckoo's Nest
Do you love a lassie
Elizabeth Clare
Emma
Fishing Junks at Sunset
George Winston's
Good Coffee
Hard
Hogmanay Jig in 5/4 time
Jackie Tar
Jan Lucas'
Kathleen
La Chapka
La Grande Bete (slowly)
Lord of Every Shining Constellation
Lusignac
Michael Turners
Minuet in G
Molinara
Molly Oxford
Orange in Bloom
Parisian waltzes
Parson's farewell
Pearlfishers
Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto
Scarborough Fair
Schottische a Vrod
Sussex Cotillion
Swedish wedding match
The Banks of the Seine
The Bay Tree
The Christmas Waltz
The Coventry Carol
The Dream Waltz
Theme from Romeo and Juliet
Theme from the Godfather (!)
Valse efter Tor Lohne
Windmill
Young Collins

 
Been a bit quiet, but still playing lots, now with the lovely new Streb electric melodeon, which is a truly amazing machine. Here's a current list of material to prod my memory.

Andro (lots of Em drones)
Angels
Bataille sur l'Arbre
Beeswax (La Bottine Souriante) ... possibly with Jackie Tar
Bonny Kate
Box in the Attic / Northern Nanny / The Low Flier
Breton Tune (Seig Soberil, etc, must look up the name for it)
Canal in October / Ding Dong Merrily on High
Canal in October / Speed the Plough
Carousel
Carraroe / Spirit of the Dance
Chassepain / Boudemic
Chocolate Rabbit
Christmas Day Ida Morning
Ciapa Rusa Waltz, played very quietly/sweetly - this is really very nice.
Coroare
Cuckoo's Nest (major) / Knife Edge (major) ... though in retrospect, Flowers of Edinburgh is a better match
Cuckoos Nest / Wraggle Taggle Gypsies
Darling Waltz
Derriere les Carreaux / La Chansonette
Fishing Junks at Sunset
Flatbush Waltz - sorry, the sudden ending doesn't really work on it's on
Flatworld (very squeaky on the Giasco)
Gitanes
Glory of the West
Go and Enlist
Grandmother's Birthday / The Wrong Turn
Handel
Honey & Lemon
Hotfoot 2 / Sweet Ginger
Hoven Droven schottische... possibly with Jabadaw Schottische
Italian Waltz
Jabadaw Schottische
Jackie Tar
La Chocca
La Ciapa Rusa waltz
Lake Arthur
Lemmie Brazil's No 2
Liverpool Hornpipe
LNB Polka
Lo Jai album - not the one that opens the album - the other one, that's almost playford-ish
Lusignac / Flatbush Waltz
Matoufet mazurka (hidden track)
Matoufet mazurka (track 4)
Michael Turner's Waltz
Midnight on the Water (it starts in the *UPPER* octave!)
Molly Oxford
Motorway Mazurka / La Bataille Dans la Petit Arbre
Mrs Saggs (very nice)
Nancy's Waltz
North Downs Way / Glory of the West
Obvious Mat / Flowers of Edinburgh
Orange in Bloom / Scarborough Fair.
Para Handy's
Parisian Waltzes
Pirouette / Robin's Waltz
Pratt St Bourrees
Princess Royal (Am)
Quatre Fers
Ravi's Schottische
Reel de Jos Cornier
Ribatz Ribatz (it's Easter!)
Road to Poynton
Rosbif Waltz No 5
Rose and Crown
Rose of Raby
Rose tree / Duchess dressed in blue
Salmon Tails
Si Bheag Si Mhor
Soig Soberil's
Sorceror's Ball
Sore Headed Bear
Souvenir de Glasgow / Les Chicaneaux
Souvenir de Glasgow goes with Les Quatres Fers...
Spaghetti Panic
The Box in the Attic / Northern Nanny / The Low Flier.
The Darling Waltz
The Nutting Girl
The Windmill (in Em, this time)
Trumpet and Air (Purcell)
Uncle Feedle / 8 Step Waltz / Andro
Wafflewaltzen
Wexford carol on Giasco.
Windmill (Em)
Young Collins / Parsons Farewell

 
Note to self - learning Helena Torpy's 'The Kingfisher' from her album with Steve Turner, 'Sideways Air'. A beautiful air if ever there was one. In Em, With Em/G/A chord sequences on the Giasco.

 
Back from Gennetines with GIG CB! and Vivant, picking up a few new CDs and tunes as we go. Learned a couple of An Dro's from Mike, which are the 2 off the Chouchenn CD. Very nice - not sure they'll work in Vivant, because they really need guitar backing.

From listening to the various CD's, possibles include:

- The Flaxey Green Dance (John Kirkpatricks' Orlando's Return CD)
- Hogsdon Square, the 3 carols, The Trees they do grow high, and maybe the Boston Ruby, all from Jon Swayne and Becky Price's "Love and a Bottle" CD.

Other things to consider include

- Chocolate Rabbit (from Alan Day) - GIGCB stuff probably
- Trumpet and Air (Purcell)

... and of course, those 2 wonderful Matoufet tunes.

 
With MP last night,

- Orange B schottisches
- Rosbif waltz
- Entre deux bourrees
- Matoufet mazurka (new tune, and a real candidate for the album)
- In the bleak midwinter / the dutious day
- Molly Oxford as a fast waltz (but need to mix this with something, perhaps the Cutty Wren)

 
At MP's a few days ago,

Sussex Cotillion /Michael Turner's (which now has a much better fiddle lead)
Dark Hill / Dark Island
In the Bleak Midwinter / Dutious Day Dawneth

On earlier times,

La Souris / Vrod's Schottische

Working out some stuff myself, the following tunes come forward:

Matoufet's hidden track mazurka
Matoufet's track 4 (Black hen passe-pied, I think)
A totally impossible 5/4 from Richard Jones (part 1 in Cm (!), parts 2/3 in D)
The Nigel Chippendale set from Alan Day's forthcoming Anglo compilation CD

 
At the Fairtrade party in Leighton Buzzard:

- Parisian Waltzes
- Willow Express (as a waltz!)
- French Polkas
- Swedish Wedding March
- Vivre
- Chassepain / Boudemic

 
Last night, F&H:

- Midnight on the Water
- Cuckoos Nest / Wraggle Taggle Gypsies

Also working on Wexford carol on Giasco.

 
Piano pieces played at home:

- Scarborough Fair
- La Grande Bete (slowly)
- Theme from the Godfather (!)
- Sussex Cotillion

 
And finally, a new possible set for Vivant2,

- Orange in Bloom / Scarborough Fair.

 
... here's the list of stuff played at On Bouge on the 21st...

- La Grande Bete / La Chansonette
- Orange B schottisches
- Derriere les Carreaux / Knife Edge Minor
- Afterhours / Mistral
- Rosbif Waltz No 5
- L'Inconnu
- Bonny at Morn
- Sore Headed Bear (Hi Richard!)
- Italian Waltz
- Mazurka Rigal
- Last Chance Bourree / Entre Deux
- Chassepain / Boudemic
- Rossignolet / Garcons de la Montagne
- Molinara / Flatworld
- The Windmill

 
Set thoughts for On Bouge on the 21st. ...

- Afterhours / Mistral
- Pirouette / Robins' Waltz
- Rosbif Waltz No 5
- L'Inconnu
- Bonny at Morn (quicker as waltz)
- North Downs Way / Glory of the West
- Sore Headed Bear
- Italian Waltz
- Vivre
- Orange B schottisches
- Mazurka Rigal
- Parisian Waltzes
- Carousel
- Last Chance Bourree / Entre Deux
- Chassepain / Boudemic - High 2->Low 1 - Seq 1B Em G A...
- Derriere les Carreaux / Knife Edge Minor
- Rossignolet / Garcons de la Montagne
- Patins Blancs - Low 1
- Cordon Noir / Turning of the Wheel - High 2 -> Low 2
- Molinara / Flatworld
- Amour et Printemps/ Bouffe Doigts - Seq 2B
- Dream Waltz - Low 2
- The Windmill
- La Chapka / Village Mazurka - High 2 -> Low 2
- La Grande Bete / La Chansonette
- Knife Edge / Polka d'Avignon No2 - High 2

 
Down the fox & hounds yesterday (not that I haven't been down there recently - I've just been very bad at keeping a log!)

- Spaghetti Panic
- Hotfoot 2 / Sweet Ginger
- Michael Turner's Waltz
- Canal in October / Speed the Plough

 
Some thoughts on the Vivant2 project.... very much in its infancy, but there's perhaps half of what we need in place already.

Vivant2

Suitable stuff includes…

Huron Carol / Coventry Carol
In the Bleak Midwinter
Cordon Noir / Turning of the Wheel
Rosbif Waltz No5
Parisian Waltzes
Sussex Cotillon / Michael Turner’s
Salmon Tails
Honey & Lemon
Sore Headed Bear
Schottische Set
Romeo & Juliet
The Windmill
Pat-a-pan
Amour et Printemps/ Bouffe Doigts
Past 3 O'Clock
Molly Oxford
Handel's Minuet de Berenice
Chassepain / Boudemic
Last Chance Bourree / Entre Deux
Dark Hill / Dark Island
The Dutious Day Now Closeth
Rose and Crown
Scarborough Fair

Sets

Slow: Sussex Cotillon / Michael Turner’s
In the Bleak Midwinter / The Dutious Day Now Closeth
Dark Hill / Dark Island
Huron Carol / Coventry Carol
Molly Oxford
Salmon Tails / Spirit of the Dance

French Dance:
Parisian Waltzes (maybe)
Rosbif Waltz no 5

 
In vaults bar today with MP (been a while):

- Jan Lucas / Tallis Canon
- Mrs Saggs
- Parisian Waltzes

 
And a note of something to look up - the Midsummer Place clock in Central Milton Keynes places, on the hour, a couple of tunes by (I believe) Terry Oldfield - one, a very short waltz, which would probably need a second bit written for it if there isn't one already, and the second a hornpipe (and a good one at that)

 
Other stuff played at local sessions recently:

- Young Collins / Parson's Farewell
- North Downs Way / Glory of the West
- Liverpool Hornpipe
- Midnight on the Water (it starts in the *UPPER* octave!)
- Canal in October / Speed the Plough
- Parisian Waltzes

Stuff I'm *slowly* teaching Mark:

- Christmas Day Ida Morning
- Sussex Cotillon (if only *I* could remember it)
- Rose of Raby
... and of course, Chocolate Rabbit

Stuff I'm still playing / experimenting with that deserve to get out there:

- Box in the Attic set
- Lusignac / Flatbush Waltz
- Honey & Lemon
- Salmon Tails

 
At Bradfield with Alan Day (and MarkP) at the weekend - 2 new tunes from Alan in the repertoire:

- Chocolate Rabbit
- Limey Pete

Apart from those, we played...

- Spaghetti Panic
- Kost ar Choat (!)
- Chassepain (need to teach AD Boudemic sometime)
- Bonny at Morn
- Salmon Tails (must use this more)
- Cuckoos Nest / Wraggle Taggle Gypsies (must *practice* this!)
- Michael Turners Waltz
- Super Mario Brothers

 
Current tune set to learn - Julian Sutton's "Honey and Lemon"

Tunes to keep current (and perhaps bring into Hotfoot set)

- Grandmother's Birthday / The Wrong Turn
- Box in the Attic Set

Tune to bring into Band of Merit set

- Sore Headed Bear (Hi Richard!)

 
Sorry, been a bit poor at keeping this up to date recently. Last minute booking at Calverton with MarkP produced the following impromptu set list:

- Derriere les Carreaux / Knife Edge Minor
- Rosbif Waltz No 5
- Swedish Wedding March / Pearlfishers
- L'Inconnu
- Rossignolet / Garcons de la Montagne
- Molly Oxford
- Childgrove / Gabriels' Message
- Parisian Waltzes

- Carousel
- Jan Lucas' / Tallis Canon
- Satins Blancs
- Beggars Reel
- La Chapka / Village Mazurka
- Bonny at Morn / Hunting the Cutty Wren
- Orange B schottisches
- Vivre

- Tarentella

 
At first Tuesday session last week:

- Go and Enlist
- Young Collins (which I need to relearn apparently) / Parson's Farewell

 
GIGCB, Portesham...

Let's see if I can remember:

- Herbert the Sherbet
- Ronde de Milloraine
- Darling Waltz (written by Johnny Cunningham, apparently)
- Polka St Michel
- Lemmie Brazil's No 2 / College Hornpipe
- Rondeaux
- Bourrees (Derriere les Carreaux / Jupes Fondus)
- Willow Express (of course)
- Tarentella
- Fiddle Jigs
- Off the Hook

 
Round MarkP's:

- Childgrove / Angel Gabriel
- Carousel
- Huron Carol
- Christmas Day I'Da Morning (will this go with Huron Carol I wonder)
- Dm Schottisches (all of them!)
- Amour et Printemps / Bouffe Doigts
- Theme from Romeo & Juliet

...

and of course...

- Uncle Feedle

 
George last Monday...

- Rosbif Waltz No 5
- Cuckoos Nest / Wraggle Taggle Gypsies
- Derriere Les Carreaux / La Chansonette
- Chassepain / Boudemic

Vaults bar Sunday...

- Mrs Saggs
- Italian Waltz
- Sorcerors Ball

 
Down the pub on Monday: (George Inn)

- Rosbif Waltz No 5
- Canal in October / Ding Dong Merrily on High


Down the pub on Tuesday: (Fox and Hounds)

- Windmill (Em)
- Mrs Saggs (very nice)

With MarkP tonight:

- Afterhours / Mistral
- Uncle Feedle
- Theme from Romeo and Juliet
- Parisian Waltzes
- La Chocca
- The Old Queen (which is in Em and Am the way we play it)

Piano pieces over Christmas

- Fishing Junks at Sunset
- Theme from Romeo and Juliet
- Hogmanay Jig in 5/4 time

On melodeon over Christmas

- Quatre Fers
- Souvenir de Glasgow / Les Chicaneaux
- La Chocca

 
Swan, Sunday

- Canal in October / Speed the Plough
- Michael Turner's Waltz
- Molly Oxford
- Uncle Feedle / 8 Step Waltz / Andro

Tune to note: Sussex Cotillon (trad) - nice slow march.

 
At Ian & Irene's wedding with MarkP:

- Afterhours / Mistral (of course!)
- Chassepain / Boudemic

Other pieces to bear in mind

- Theme from Romeo & Juliet (Zefferelli movie, that is) - try it in D / Bm on the Giasco - this is *really* beautiful if I can figure out a suitable chord seq!
- Ballade pour Adeline (not tried this yet - no idea if it can be made to work)

 
Tunes that Polly would like:

Quebec Reel (on new box)
Ride On (instrumental)
La Chapka (on box by itself, the original slow version)
Angels
Jump at the Sun
Alpraham
8 Step Waltz / Andro
Parsons Farewell / Happy One Step
Motorway Mazurka / La Bataille sur l'petit Arbre
Liverpool Hornpipe
Minuet in G
Breton tune (Bullfight)
Annie's Schottische

 
Also starting to like the little tune off the Lo Jai album - not the one that opens the album - the other one, that's almost playford-ish.

 
From last weekend's sunday session, just a couple

- Windmill (Em)
- Sorceror's Ball

George session on Monday:

- Darling Waltz
- Soig Soberil's
- Derriere les Carreaux / La Chansonette

 
Notes from an *old* session with Saskia last year...

- Para Handy's
- Reel de Jos Cornier
- Bataille sur l'Arbre
- Handel
- Carraroe / Spirit of the Dance
- Princess Royal (Am)
- Obvious Mat / Flowers of Edinburgh
- Nancy's Waltz
- Jackie Tar
- Wafflewaltzen
- Rose and Crown
- Liverpool Hornpipe
- Parisian Waltzes
- Pratt St Bourrees
- Angels
- Ravi's Schottische
- Glory of the West

 
2 new thoughts for the Giasco:

- Road to Poynton
- The Windmill (in Em, this time)

There's also a new waltz floating around, rather wittily currently named...er... new waltz

 
Hey chaps, Shepherds Hey can be played fairly easily in A. And G. And D of course... And possibly with a few minorised versions... Hmmm.

 
... and actually played at Towersey...

- Spaghetti Panic
- Herbert the Sherbert
- Polka St Michel
- Une Oie, Deux Oies / Maxou's
- Tarentella
- Ronde de la Milloraine
- She Wants a Fellow / Hop Break
- Michael Turners Waltz
- Lemmie Brazil's No 2
- Shreds & Patches / White Friar's Hornpipe
- Willow Express
- Off the Hook

... and with another little absolutely unpracticed "do you remember this" session with MarkP

- L'Inconnu
- Vivre
- Bonny at Morn (fast waltz version)
- Rossignolet / Garcons de la Montagne
- Rosbif Waltz No.5

... session wise, as above, but also including

- Darling Waltz
- LNB Polka
- Bonny Kate

 
GIGCB set list for Towersey (proposed):

Champenois - Spaghetti Panic
6 hand reel - Tarentella
Willow Tree - Willow Express
Circassian Circle - Super Mario Bros
Country Bumpkins - Shreds & Patches / White Friar's Hornpipe
Old Swan Gallop - She Wants a Fellow / Hop Break
4 Person Bourrees (called) - Une Oie, Deux Oies / Maxou's
Waterloo Dance – Polka St Michel
Nottingham Swing – Plant un Chou
Boston Tea Party - Young Virgins / Seven Stars
Circle Waltz - The Darling Waltz or Orange in Bloom / Ville de Quebec
Snowball - Sore Headed Bear or Herbert the Sherbet
Foula Reel - Ronde de la Milloraine
TAG - Fiddle Jigs
Boston Tea Party - Lemmie Brazil's No 2 in D
Waves of Tory – Herbert the Sherbet or Spanish Jig
Rosza – Michael Turners
Swedish Masquerade - Own tune

Reserves:

OXO Reel - JCB's / Last Night in the Bar
Laride a 8 – Off 2nd Album
Schottische – Off the Hook

Unlikely to be played:

Alouette
Gavotte Chambre 361 (thank goodness)
Portesham Sunrise / West End
Ben's Tunes
Brothers in York / Moll in the Wood
Oats and Beans (Ninepins)
Rondeaux (mandola led set)
Rondeaux (from 1st CD)
Laride a 6 (from 1st CD)
Alpraham
Bergere de Coulandon / Jupes Fendues
La Borregada / Rondeau
Song of Cider / Larry Day's
Grandes Potteries

 
Have finally figured an arrangement to Chris Wood's Lusignac that I like - Bm (ish) on the Giasco, possibly put with Flatbush Waltz, maybe with La Boite de Frissons (although maybe just the intro instead)

 
Fox and Hounds session:

- Young Collins / Parson's Farewell
- North Downs Way / Glory of the West
- Molly Oxford

A couple of reminders of MarkF tunes worth considering...

- 9 Points of Roguery
- Wind that Shakes the Barley

 
Here's an interesting thing - clearing out my old files yesterday - found my *really* old set list (like from when I was learning to play melodeon days - through to about (I guess) 3 years in. I learned tunes a lot faster then! But there are old band things and morris tune sets in here (like when I used to play for Six Towns Morris). Let's have a look through...

Rattling Bog
Salmon Tails
Winster Gallop
Dominion of the Sword [ Still use this on the Mory sometimes, esp for soundchecks! Need something with it to make a set ]
Strawberry Fair
Princess Royal
Oh Susannah
Almost Every Circumstance
Brighton Camp
British Grenadiers
William Brown
Tich’s Reel
Over the Hills
Keel Row/Kalamazoo
Sonerset Wassail
Lord of the Dance
Mari’s Wedding
Butterflies
Donkey Riding (G/Em)
Beetle on the Wine [ A great 2 row tune if ever there was one. Must resurrect it. ]
Pepper in the Brandy [ Ditto ]
Shepherd’s Hey
Duchess Dressed in Blue
Both Sides Now
Northpoint
Barroom Branle [ Possible ]
Whistling Gypsy
Molly Oxford
Ti Me [ Yes, this one is good as I recall ]
RoseTree
Bonnets so Blue
Nutting Girl [ Just played this today - for the first time in ages! ]
Young Collins [ Now played with Parson's Farewell ]
Queen of Belfast City
Egan’s Polka I, II, and III
Bampto Sidestep
Happy One Step
Cuckoo’s Nest [ Now played with Wraggle Taggle Gypsies ]
Phillippe Bruneau’s I & II
Morpeth Rant
Rochdale Coconut Dance
Bear Dance
An Dro
Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
Astley’s Ride
Hamburger
Blaydon Races
The Quaker [ Should relearn this too ]
Dorset 4 Hand
Box in the Attic [ Have finally learned all 3 tunes in this set - Northern Nanny and Low Flier ]
Old Joe Clarke
Martha’s Comet
Flowers of Edinburgh
8 Step Waltz
Polka Chinoise
Love is Blue
Original Branle
C Polkas I & II
John Ryans Polka
St Michaels Mount
Winster Gallop (Em)
LNB Polka
Jon’s Polka
Galopede
Wraggle Taggle Gypsies
Oyster Girl
Cock O The North
100 Pipers (G/Em)
Garry Owen
In Dulci Jubilo / On Christmas Night
RSB
Peacock Followed the Hen
La Marmotte
Jump at the Sun
Hogmanay Jig
Greensleeves
Pterodactyl 2 Step
Bobbing Joe
Herbert the Sherbet
Out on the Ocean [ Should bring this back - this was a lovely slow jig with Trip to Cheltenham for a while ]
Black Joke
Haste to the Wedding
Rosin the Beau
Dribbles o Brandy
Lass of Killiecranky
Nantwich Fair
Fairwell Sicily
Trip to Cheltenham [ Yep, see above ]
Star Above the Garter
Drops of Brandy
Tarentella
Nellie the Elephant
Blowzabella
Lad with the Trousers
Spirit of the Dance [ Ditto, but this was with Mrs Casey's ]
Carraroe [ This is a good one ]
Songbird
Mooncoin Jig
Pop Goes the Weasel
CW/AC Irish Jigs [ Woodcock / Kerfunken is what these are - nice, but hard to play well ]
Brendan Power’s
Black Nag
Quebec Jigs I & II
Go and Enlist
Lyke Wake Dirge
Rope Waltz
Scarborough Fair
Drive the Cold Winter Away
Kidnapped
Portmerion [ Yep, bring this back ]
Rose and Crown
Bonny at Morn
We 3 Kings
Amour et Printemps
Toccata
Flatworld/In Continental Mood
Unknown Bourree
Desford Waltz
Roly Gentle
Rosbif Waltz No 5
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Scottish Air
Northern Lass
La Bal Marine
Galloping Home
Greensleeves
When a Knight Wins His Spurs
Skobo
Little Man in a Fix
Carolan’s Welcome
The Bay Tree / Walled Garden
Molinara
La Boite de Frissons [ Haven't played this in ages - bring it back! ]
Michael Turners
The Reflex Waltz [ This would be nice to arrange ]
Nancy’s Waltz
Retour de Montaignac
When Chloe / Ville de Quebec
Café Waltz
Bread & Fishes
Windmills of Amsterdam
L’Autre Bout de la Monde
Sun in September
Paradise Mill
La Marianne
Musette a Louise
Gail Bolland’s
Waltz Harry Lane
It Never Rains
Satins Blancs
Liverpool Lullaby
Us Poor Fellows
Cushie Butterfield
Speed the Plough
Keel Row
Lunch in the Pub
Off to California
Go Mauve
Pepper in the Brandy
Venus of Levenshulme
One for Dan [ Yep ]
Annie’s Schottische
Shameless Glutton
Perrone’s Hornpipe
Boys of Blue Hill
Gypsy Hornpipe
Rights of Man
Black Mary’s Hornpipe
Man in the Brown Hat
Portsmouth
Great North Run
History
Barratt’s Privateers [ Thinking of bringing this back as a song... I'll go fetch the lyrics in a minute ]
Bal D’Absac
Mother’s Day
Eleanor Rigby
Bonny at Morn
Peppercorn [ Erm, no Clive, you mean Kettledrum ]
Leaving on a Jet Plane
Young Collins (Em)
Floating to Skerry
Schottish Air
Adieu les Filles de Mon Pays
Dargai
South Wind
French Marches [ Florinda / Organdi ]
Coroare [ This *should*work, but I haven't got an arrangement yet ]
Tucson Arizona
Close the Coalhouse Door
Best is yet to Come
The Gavotte Paths
The Jolly Machine
The Steamboat
La Chapka
Orange in Bloom
La Bataille Dans la Petit Arbre
The Morning Star
Wedding Song
Para Handy’s
Canal in October / Un Autre Fois
Pearl Fishers

 
In the pub this Sunday

- The Nutting Girl
- Box in the Attic / Northern Nanny / The Low Flier
- Fishing Junks at Sunset
- North Downs Way / Glory of the West

 
In the pub last Sunday...

- Sore Headed Bear
- Darling Waltz
- Lake Arthur
- Carousel

 
A couple of other tunes I've been working on recently, but neglected to post!

- Fishing Junks at Sunset
- John Close's / The Dark Hill

 
And the Vivant set for Togfest 2003 (www.togfest.org) (not necessarily in this order!)

- Afterhours / Mistral
- Childgrove / Angel Gabriel
- Jan Lucas / Tallis Canon
- Rosbif Waltz No 5
- Orange B / Jan Mijne
- Rossignolet / Garcons de la Montagne

 
Here's the Hotfoot set from 12/7/03, Shenley Brook End:

- Fiddle Jigs
- Jackie Tar
- Sorcerors Ball
- Hotfoot 2 / Sweet Ginger
- Mrs Saggs
- Italian Waltz
- Go and Enlist

 
Back from Gennetines festival, France - new tunes learned (all from Richard!)

- Sore Headed Bear
- The Darling Waltz
- Lemmie Brazil's No 2

Things played in late night Vivant session with Mark

- Afterhours / Mistral (as a pair ... works well!!)
- Pirouette / Robins' Waltz
- Rosbif Waltz No 5
- L'Inconnu
- Bonny at Morn (quicker as waltz)
- North Downs Way / Glory of the West (which works very well too... though I'm not sure if people were doing a schottische or a polka to it)

Things in the GIGCB sets:

- Un Oie, Deux Oies / Maxou's (bourree and for a particular dance too, slower)
- Spaghetti Panic (champenois, of course)
- Tarantella (cornish 6 hand reel)
- Off the Hook (schottische)
- Laride a 8 - The set from the 2nd CD, in D with the section that repeats 6 times, then 2nd tune in Em
- Herbert the Sherbet (for the Snowball)
- Spanish Jig (also used for Snowball, but principally kept for Waves of Tory)
- Ronde de Milloraine (Foula Reel)
- Rondeaux (mandola led set)
- Willow Express (willow tree, of course)
- Super Mario Bros (circassian circle)
- She Wants a Fellow / The Hop Break (32 bar jigs, used for lots of things)
- Fiddle Jigs (ditto)
- Darling Waltz (circle waltz)
- Lemmie Brazil's No 2
- Song of the Cider / Larry Day's (larides)
- Laride a 6 (from 1st CD)
- Michael Turners' Waltz
- Fiddle Mazurkas (at least, I think we did that)

 
Roddy (Cut the Mustard) last night:

- City of Angels (A)
- Sand and Water (G)
- Speed of the Sound of Loneliness (F)
- Come and Find Me (C)
- Donna's Solo
- Cripple Creek (A) (skip)
- Reunion Hill (D) (chord seq is D->A->Em->G)
- If Tomorrow Never Comes (G)

- Fishing (Dm - Bouzouki)
- If I Wrote You (A)
- The Big Ones Get Away (D)
- Talk to Me While I'm Listening (A)
- My Solo (Pirouette / Robin's Waltz... need to work on bellows control on the C/F!)
- Time After Time (C)
- Goodbye (A)
- Hand to Mouth (Dm) - (uses Kettledrum riff)
- Hymn to Her (F)
- I Shall Be Released (C)

Down the Song Loft a week later, the set list is much the same, with a few dropped out, and

- Rose of England (D)

added on the end as the encore.

 
Band of Merit

- Cock of the North / 100 Pipers
- Super Mario
- Tarantella
- Soldier's Joy / Davy Davy Knick Knack (yuk)
- Lake Arthur
- Spanish Jig
- Atholl Highlanders (in D)
- Michael Turners Waltz

and a couple of others I can't think of...

 
Swan session yesterday:

- Molly Oxford
- Liverpool Hornpipe (hmmm... *that* didn't work)
- Pirouette / Robin's Waltz

 
For info, at Lucy's wedding, we played:

At the ceremony:
- Afterhours
- Mistral
- Tallis Canon
- Orange B

At the castle grounds:
- Rosbif Waltz No 5
- Derriere les Carreaux
- Parisian Waltzes 1 & 2

At a little dance in the castle itself:
- Derriere les Carreaux
- Chassepain / Boudemic
- Fiddle Jigs (to Circassian Circle)

At the airport (!)
- Rossignolet / Garcons de la Montagne
- Rosbif Waltz No 5
- Orange B / Jan Mijne (you know the one I mean)

What a lovely weekend!

 
... oh and working on a Brian Peter's set - The Box in the Attic / Northern Nanny / The Low Flier.

Lovely tunes all of them. In D, D, and Em.

 
With MarkP, in prep for Lucy's wedding:

- Afterhours / Mistral
- Orange B schottisches
- Carousel
- Parisian Waltzes 1 & 2
- Mazurka Rigal
- Rossignolet / Garcons de la Montagne
- Vivre
- Italian Waltz

 
At the Vaults on Sunday:

- Cuckoo's Nest (Major) / Flowers of Edinburgh
- North Downs Way / Glory of the West