Small Tunes: “Nameless Reel”

Friday, January 14, 2011

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Small Tunes: “O’er the Water to Charlie”

Friday, December 31, 2010

“O’er the Water to Charlie” is another one of those Jacobite “rebel” songs that has been spun and respun into songs, pipe marches, fiddle jigs, etc.

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Small Tunes: “The March to the Battlefield”

Friday, December 17, 2010

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Small Tunes: Let the Bottle Circulate

Friday, December 10, 2010

Another little reel to keep the feet tapping and the fingers waggling. The title is a universal sentiment that is as common today as it was when libations were first put in glass containers. As the holiday season comes upon us, it doesn’t take much imagination to see old-world country musicians passing around a bottle to cut the winter chill in between dance sets.

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Small Tunes: “Bung Your Eye!”

Friday, November 19, 2010

his happy little jig is often heard as “Lord Dunmore’s Jig” or simply “Lord Dunmore” and versions of that tune (although a bit different) can be found in many of the well kent collections of bagpipe music. That title is predated, however, by an earlier form of the tune in the eighteenth and nineteenth century collections as the slow march “Bung Your Eye.”

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