Hands Up for Trad are inviting bands to send in a demo to take part in The Battle of the Folk Bands 2019 competition to be held at Glasgow’s Celtic Connections Festival on Saturday January 19th 2019. If you are in a band or have an idea for a band that you haven’t tried out yet this could be for you! We want musicians to take a chance and make a band that you might never have thought of! Your … Read more
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A Winter Yet and The Crackit Bowl composed by George L Smith
The first tune "A Winter Yet" is a medium-paced strathspey and leads on into the reel "The Crackit Bowl". I composed the reel to be an adaptation of the strathspey tune. Suggest play each tune twice. No prizes for guessing which old Scots sayings I got the titles from! Composer website: Publisher: Tune type: Strathspey […] … [Read More...]
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Cort-ma Law and Lecket Hill composed by George L Smith
This post was originally published hereHere are two fast jigs for the price of one. They’re named after hills in the Campsie Fells not far from where I live. Suggest play each tune twice through, finishing with Cort-ma Law once through. Keep the speed up! Composer website: Publisher: Tune type: Jig Listen: If you have […]
Cort-ma Law and Lecket Hill composed by George L Smith
This post was originally published hereHere are two fast jigs for the price of one. They’re named after hills in the Campsie Fells not far from where I live. Suggest play each tune twice through, finishing with Cort-ma Law once through. Keep the speed up! Composer website: Publisher: Tune type: Jig Listen: If you have […]
Cort-ma Law and Lecket Hill composed by George L Smith
This post was originally published hereHere are two fast jigs for the price of one. They’re named after hills in the Campsie Fells not far from where I live. Suggest play each tune twice through, finishing with Cort-ma Law once through. Keep the speed up! Composer website: Publisher: Tune type: Jig Listen: If you have […]
Cort-ma Law and Lecket Hill composed by George L Smith
This post was originally published hereHere are two fast jigs for the price of one. They’re named after hills in the Campsie Fells not far from where I live. Suggest play each tune twice through, finishing with Cort-ma Law once through. Keep the speed up! Composer website: Publisher: Tune type: Jig Listen: If you have […]
Rohallion Loch composed by George L Smith
This post was originally published hereRohallion Loch is a small but scenic loch located in Perthshire in the area where the ancient great Wood of Birnam once existed. My mother grew up at Rohallion and her stories of life around there inspired me to name this slow air after it. Composer website: Publisher: Tune type: […]
The Rakes Of Killearn composed by George L Smith
This post was originally published hereI set out originally to compose a good-going Scottish jig but somewhere along the way some Irish sounding bits crept in, so to combine both sides I’ve called it The Rakes of Killearn (with tongue firmly in cheek). Composer website: Publisher: Tune type: Jig Listen: If you have a question […]
The Rakes Of Killearn composed by George L Smith
This post was originally published hereI set out originally to compose a good-going Scottish jig but somewhere along the way some Irish sounding bits crept in, so to combine both sides I’ve called it The Rakes of Killearn (with tongue firmly in cheek). Composer website: Publisher: Tune type: Jig Listen: If you have a question […]
Ian MacKenzie’s Farewell to the Clyde composed by Kenneth Ian MacKenzie
This post was originally published hereThis tune was written for my late father Ian MacKenzie when he retired from a lifetime working from an apprentice boat builder to senior draftsman in and around the Clyde. Composer website: Publisher: PRS Tune type: Air Listen: https://soundcloud.com/kenny-mackenzie If you have a question for Kenneth Ian MacKenzie you can […]
Hands Up for Trad TV 39
This post was originally published hereWatch the latest Hands Up for Trad TV featuring great videos from Rura, Tide Lines, Sophie Stevenson, Dowally and Doris Day! We also unveil our new trad news section! Presented by Simon Thoumire and Alana MacInnes. If you enjoy this content please consider supporting the Hands Up for Trad Patreon […]