Category: Major key tunes

Here’s Broad Hoops, as tune from Lancashire that appears in the John Winder collection of 1835-41. Anyone interested in this, or indeed any other folk tune collections from England should check out the village-music-project.org.uk

The Great North Run by Robert Whitehead, a fabulous tune to potentially go with Ger the Rigger.

A cheerful tune to start our term, Irish polka Ger the Rigger. This tune appears in the 1976 book Ceol Rince na hÉireann vol. 2. Here are the basic dots, with an additional ornamented/varied version:

Here is the tune and harmony:

Here’s a slow and a faster version, with the riff at the end:

Here is the riff we tried (this will be developed next week!):

Finally here’s a fantastic version of the tune, it has more of a swing to it and a really lovely groove. 

Here are the video and dots for the Hop Picker’s Feast, an English country dance tune from the book Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1786 by Samuel, Ann and Peter Thompson.