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Granite Skyes

 

Your monthly news from the New Hampshire Scottish Music Club

 
 

Volume 38, No. 1, September 2026

“Having fun with Scottish Music”

Annual Picnic

The summer picnic will be held on the last Sunday before Labor Day, August 30, from 1pm-5pm at Anne’s. It’s potluck, so bring a dish to share and any drinks you’d like. After lunch, we’ll play some music. Bring your instrument, music stand and session book, if you have one. If it’s hot, feel free to bring a bathing suit and towel. The pool will be open!

We might also play some of the tunes that will be recycled from last season. Here is the list:

∙      Signature Tune

∙      Pipe Marches

o   Peat Fire Flame

o   Greenwood Side

o   Highland Laddie

o   Campbell’s Farewell to Redcastle

∙      Polka 

o   Royal Scots Polka 

∙      Minor MSR Set

o   Hughie & Jane

o   The Warlocks

o   Nine Pint Coggie

o   Knockdhu

∙      Brumley, Fisher, & Walker Reels

o   Brumley Brae

o   Fisher’s Hornpipe

o   Walker Street

∙      Three Slow Reels

o   Hills of Kaitoke

o   The Farley Bridge

o   The Road to Errogie

If you need directions, contact Anne at anne.baier25@gmail.com.

Our September 13th Gathering

For our first gathering after the summer break, we will be taking a look at the new concert sets for this year. Click here for the music.

A Note from the Music Committee

Your music committee has been hard at work this summer putting together concert sets for the 2027 concert season. First, we selected sets from the past year that we played well or that we really liked but had to cut from the program due to time constraints. Second, we looked through the repertoire from recent years and selected tunes that we thought would work well together. Finally, we dug deeper into our tune history for old favorites or for tunes that should be old favorites but haven’t been played in recent memory. 

Some of you made suggestions as to tunes you would like to see included. Please know that we looked at all of these and, if they didn’t make the cut, we will consider those tunes again next year.

As we progress through the coming year working on these tunes, many of you will have ideas for how the music should be played. Every one of us on the music committee values your thoughts and we will work together with Annie to put on the best performance possible. To that end, we ask that you not overload Annie with emails but reach out to any one of us – or all of us – with your thoughts. 

As you print out the concerts sets, note the date on the bottom of each page. Prior to each rehearsal please check that you have the most current version of every tune.

We hope you enjoy playing the music we selected as much as we do.

Looking forward to making great music together!

  • Your Music Committee 

    • Alan Wilson (alancwilson@gmail.com)

    • Annelise Papinsick (melodiousdragon@comcast.net)

    • Connie Eppich (connie.eppich@gmail.com)

    • Jasper Cottle (cottle.jm@gmail.com)

Tune Tales

Each month our Tune Master, Alan Wilson, selects a few tunes to explore and writes a blog post sharing their history and fun facts about them. In this edition he takes a look at a march, a reel, and a jig, each from a different century. Click here to read more.

Grants and Scholarships

We are happy to report that we were awarded a $1000 grant from the Frederick Smyth Institute of Music. This is an unrestricted grant, which is so helpful for running our programs. We still have funds from the Couch Grants restricted to scholarships. We have granted just over $800 in scholarships this year and also have funds from donations to the Daniel Creighton Scholarship Fund.

Join Us for Board Meetings

Ever wonder what your Board does? Join us for Board Meetings! All meetings are open to our members. We meet (usually) the first Wednesday of the month at 7 PM on Zoom. Meetings are an hour or less and we would welcome anyone who is interested to see how we run the organization. Send an email to nhscottishmusic@gmail.com and we’ll send you the Zoom link.

Back Issues of Granite Skyes

If you are new to our organization and would like to learn more about us, or you have been with us for many years and are waxing nostalgic, you can read many years worth of our monthly newsletter, Granite Skyes, here.

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10 Hollow Rd., Bow, NH 03304, USA

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