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I haven’t done Tuneswap Tuesday for a while… anyone got some good folk for me? Here’s Clive Williams playing a Northumbrian pipe tune on a tiny melodeon: Peacock Followed the Hen
#TuneswapTuesday #Melodeon #DiatonicAccordion #Accordion #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
The Wild Hills o’ Wannies really is an excellent tune, isn’t it? This thought is brought to you by the recording on Pauline Cato’s “The Wansbeck Piper”, which unfortunately for sharing but fortunately for artist-getting-paid-for-her-work I can’t find on the interweb streaming whatsits… so here’s a video of Becky Taylor instead https://youtu.be/zBsyoVgAilQ
#NSP #NorthumbrianSmallpipes #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
Do any trad/folk music fans out there have recommendations for Anglo concertina players/albums to listen to?
I’m aware of/have access to the classic William Kimber and Scan Tester recordings and a bit of Jody Kruskal, and obviously the other/“real” JK (.i. John Kirkpatrick)(alongside his BCA and melodeons). And let me just say *not* Irish please!
#Anglo #Concertina #AngloConcertina #Accordion #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
I’m performing tonight in Cambridge and tomorrow in Shipley as part of Scotland Introducing, a landmark initiative from Showcase Scotland Expo. I’ll be joined by Michael Biggins on piano and Birdvox are co-headlining. 🎻 🏴 If you’re into Scottish folk song, traditional ballads and self-penned songs, this is for you!
📍5/9 CAMBRIDGE, CAMBRIDGE JUNCTION
📍6/9 SHIPLEY, THE LIVE ROOM
🎫 → ionafyfe.com/tour
Such a lovely evening in Bury performing at The Met alongside Birdvox and accompanied by Michael Biggins. Got some time in Manchester tomorrow. Any recommendations? ♥️
📍5/9 CAMBRIDGE Junction
📍6/9 SHIPLEY The Live Room
🎫 → ionafyfe.com/tour
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I’m heading out on a mini tour of England. Joined by Michael Biggins on piano. Birdvox co-headlining. 🎻 🏴 If you’re into Scottish folk song, traditional ballads and self-penned songs, this is for you!
📍3/9 BURY, THE MET
📍5/9 CAMBRIDGE JUNCTION
📍6/9 SHIPLEY, THE LIVE ROOM
🎫 → ionafyfe.com/tour
The 74th FLEADH opened in Belfast! There was a Palestine Solidarity parade at this year's national festival of traditional music and dance
🇮🇪❤️🇵🇸
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbihiX3gzSW/?igsh=ajAyNTd0ZmdjYzVr
#Palestine #solidarity #Fleadh #belfast #fleadh2026 #mastodaoine #tradmusic #TraditionalIrishMusic #dance #ireland
I’m in the process of converting my melodeon playing to using what is known as the the "Dutch Reversal", where button five on the inside row plays E/D rather than D/E. My latest “composition” is what happens if you play “Speed the Plough” as though on a “normal” melodeon. I think it sounds kinda groovy and minorish, so am claiming it as a “composition” until told otherwise, and naming it “Sneller met die ploeg” [No longer “Haasten de ploeg”] until someone improves my Dutch. (@sandradejong might you maybe advise please?)[Now received with grateful thanks!] Dots with .abc format notation in alt text below.
Edited to reflect naming advice
#Melodeon #DiatonicAccordion #Diato #Accordion #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
Bookings are open for Coll Connections, the Isle of Coll's folk festival in April 2027
Scottish Smallpiper Fin Moore and guitarist Anna Massie will join our tutor team. The craic will be mighty!
The festival is a unique opportunity to connect with others, immerse yourself in trad music & song, & experience Coll’s magic. Don’t miss this chance to make lasting memories in this breathtaking Hebridean setting
#TradMusic
#FolkMusic
#Scotland
Boosts appreciated!
#musiquetrad #tradmusic #balfolk #balfolk Le dernier album de Shillelagh https://macke-bornauw.bandcamp.com/album/du-bout-des-doigts
Regine de Poitrine 🔺🌭
POV you're playing for #balfolk dancing during a #heatwave
#nyckelharpa #folkmusic #livemusic #tradmusic #summertime #anginedepoitrine #pedals (you have to start somewhere)
GLASGOW SHOW THIS SUNDAY! ✨🏴
I’m performing a rare solo show at the Hug and Pint in Glasgow on Sunday 28th June as part of the Music Venue Trust: Everywhere at Once festival. If you’re into Scottish folk music, this is for you!
🎟️ Book → https://bit.ly/4evB9i
📍Hug and Pint, Glasgow
📅 28th June
⏰ 19:30
💰 £17 + bf
I’ve been obsessing over tunes played at Weedon balfolk today, and Jo Freya’s bourrée “De Montford” is an absolute banger.
Check it out - amusingly medlified in this recording https://youtu.be/HhFIgv4QCkk
Gearing up for Open Tuning - front porches and garages in the #SeatonVillage neighborhood of #Toronto. I’ll be hosting a Celtic Front Porch from 2PM to 9 PM - playing #IrishMusic, #TradMusic with my friends. Lots of other #liveMusic venues around too - Bloor to Dupont, Bathurst to Christie.
Time to start setting up…
Cool looking gig organised by my old melodeon teacher, folks up Derbyshire way may be interested:
“Tickets available here - if you're thinking of coming but haven't got your tickets yet, please buy them in advance as this helps reduce a promoter's stress levels 😁”
https://melbiggsmusic.co.uk/product/jon-doran-and-the-northern-assembly-at-kilnside-folk/
EDIT - Mel’s site seems to be down right now, so maybe bookmark and check back later…
RE-EDIT - the site is back up.
It is our monthly night to go and play tunes in the pub, and I’m looking forward to that as the pub is quite cool. I’ve still decided it is officially too hot to play the pipes, even if they’re just smallpipes.
Anyway, if you’re near Bedford come down to the Welly and play English / European folk music if you like, from 1930 until we run out of enthusiasm.
Recognise me by my melodeon mounted mallard.
Playing my NSP which I’ve been neglecting for far too long, and remembered how much I love Billy Pigg’s “Gypsy’s Lullaby” - here’s fiddler Martin Clarke playing it and giving a bit of explanation
Traditional Artist in Residence vacancy (PT - 0.2 / 7 hours), Celtic and Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh - https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRQ687/traditional-artist-in-residence
#FolkMusic #TradMusic #Folklore #ScottishStudies #Ethnomusicology
Public Service Announcement: Naragonia’s “Pink Molly” by Toon Van Mierlo is an absolutely brilliant tune, so much so that having put it on I felt the need to tell you all.
I was listening to it on their album “Tandem” but there’s a tuition version that goes with their G/C diato tunebook on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/OMzQrLdzuzw
#Accordeon #AccordéonDiatonique #Diato #Melodeon #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
Just found out that Julian Sutton (JS hereinafter) will be the third tutor at this year’s Halsway D/G weekend, so a little anecdote…
About ten years ago I went to Melodeons at Witney and JS was one of the tutors. The workshop of his I went to was “all abilities” and I was very much a beginner. It was way, way beyond me and I came away massively frustrated and annoyed that it was not as pitched. Trying to learn “The Great North Run” and “93 Not Out” at great pace, suitable for beginners?! I walked out knowing I’d learnt nothing and wasted that time when I could’ve gained useful knowledge/ technique in a different workshop.
Fast forward to last year at Halsway when playing in the bar one evening, someone started a tune and I joined in without particular difficulty although I didn’t know it, and also the one they segued into. “What were they?” I asked, “I don’t know them but seemed to be able to play them.” The reply, of course, was “The Great North Run into 93 Not Out.”
I’m not saying I guarantee I could repeat the capability to just join in and play them, but clearly something had stuck and I’d done JS a great disservice!
#Melodeon #DiatonicAccordion #Accordion #FolkLife #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
Ok, I found the coolest thing ever.
===Cyberpunk Bluegrass Music===
@coreysnipes suggested I look into Bluegrass in addition to my current studies of Irish Trad music as I learn how to play the Irish whistle. That makes sense as a lot of Bluegrass stems from old Irish music.
In my search for Bluegrass music with Irish whistles, I stumbled across Justin Myles Holmes' "Barlow's Jig".
And get this... after listening to an Irish whistle, a banjo, a fiddle, and other instruments playing a bluegrass jig...
...you hear a voiceover reading of "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)" written by none other than John Perry Barlow, founding member of the @eff
John Perry Barlow. Barlow's Jig.
My worlds have collided.
Heck, I'd argue that Folk Music + Calls for Digital Independence = Solarpunk !!!
Give it a listen here (the voiceover starts at 2:45 but listen to the leadup as well):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck8AZA11oYQ&list=OLAK5uy_n1BAK9bfUT9iwOo8yTRVfKeYI-St_9TME&index=11 (full URL just includes the song itself and a playlist for the album. No tracking parameters)
#solarPunk #cyberPunk #folkMusic #tradMusic #bluegrass #tinWhistle
I read on FaceAche that there is
“ just 1 space remaining on this year's #FolkUnboundTheGathering folk music summer camp for trans-men, trans-women, non-binary folks, cis-women and other marginalised genders
🗓️6-10th July
📍 Castleton, Derbyshire Peak District”
If that sounds like your kind of thing check out https://www.folkunbound.co.uk - the team who run it are great :-)
#FolkMusic #Derbyshire #FolkMusician #TransInclusive #Folk #FolkMusic #TradMusic #Trad
One main reason why I like the Irish Whistle and Irish "Sessions" is that its a way to play music with your neighbors.
There is a low barrier of entry to getting a fipple flute (many can be 3D printed as folks have noted) and mass produced ones are $10 to $20 USD for entry-level ones. Other folk instruments can be approachable as well and many can be passed down, gifted, or sold "used".
Learning to play is straight forward with plenty of free or low cost ways to learn - either online or even better from each other locally.
But the big thing is that finding local "jam sessions" is straight forward. And organizing ones where they dont exist yet is easy as well. Folks play in a pub for heavens' sake. Folk music exists in every culture and has existed since humans (and their ancestors) could bang a stick for blow air over a fipple or an embouchure while sitting around a fire.
You don't need to pay for a concert.
You don't need to form a band.
You don't need to buy an album, be fed from an algorithm, or get everything from a corporation.
You just get together and play with each other.
It's the community theater of music. The old ways still exist and folks are still coming together to take care of each other. Corporations have had a good run isolating us and leaching our money, but we aren't limited to that.
(Also if you dont want to play, you can sing. Even if your singing voice is terrible! 😅 Or you can tap your feet, slap your thigh, whistle, or hum. Orrrr.... you can just drink a coke or a beer and listen to your neighbors play and sing! Clapping and cheering go far!)
You can find local Irish trad sessions that you can play with or listen to here: https://thesession.org/sessions
What sorts of folk music do you have in your area? What instruments are played? What songs are sung?
I've been enjoying learning the Irish Whistle / Tin Whistle. Bought a very inexpensive $15 USD whistle and been tooling on it for a couple of months learning off of free youtube videos.
I suck at it but I really enjoy it and want to continue learning.
So since I'm sticking with it, I figure I ought to take some lessons. Gonna sign up with https://oaim.ie .
Also looking at getting an "expensive" tin whistle. Looking at some between $150 to $250 USD for a single high D whistle.
As an aside, I really have enjoyed listening to the Uilleann Pipes and looked into how much a cheap set would cost...
...nope. Gonna stick with my penny whistle. 😅 (at least for now 😝)
Discovered that Xim’s album 989 is on Bandcamp so I can finally listen to the original of Longwater :-)
https://ximmusic4.bandcamp.com/album/989
#HurdyGurdy #VielleARoue #CornemuseDuCentre #EnglishBorderPipes #Flute #Melodeon #Accordion #AccordéonDiatonique #Diato #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
The Albion Band’s “Lark Rise to Candleford” was one of my childhood exposures to folk, and I still have my parents vinyl of it. Listening to it again, I had forgotten quite how good it is. Though I appreciate different tracks to I used to, I think that uplifting opening is why I have such affection for “Brighton Camp”.
Also you can play a guessing game each time you hear a melodeon: is that John Kirkpatrick or John Tams playing it? (What, you didn’t know that Tams could play the box as well as singing, fiddling etc? Shame!)
#Melodeon #DiatonicAccordion #Accordion #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
Cool European bagpipe tune project - not the cheapest of things but looks too good not to back and get a pretty book of tunes… check out https://www.ulule.com/le-printemps-des-sonneurs/ while there is still time!
#Cornemuse #CornemuseDuCentre #BorderPipes #BorderBagpipes #Folk #FolkMusic #Music #TradMusic #Trad
Today’s exciting delivery
Chouette moment à la rtbf avec mon ami irlandais Cillian McCabe https://youtu.be/6N9HQeeqyQs?is=C3E_vLKVMCbniDOG
#irishmusic #tradmusic #folkmusic #musiqueirlandaise #rtbflapremiere
Here's an opportunity to take part in our island festival (4th-9th April). It's been fully booked since last summer. Three folk have recently had to cancel. If you'd like to join us for this joyful celebration of music, community and place in this beautiful Hebridean setting you can find out all about it, and register, on the festival website.
https://
collfolkfestival.com/
All three places are for the easier mixed instrument workshops