https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-30 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/rehearsal-for-concert-performers monthly 0.5 2026-03-30 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/portsmouth-library-concert-5ncng-stlp6 monthly 0.5 2025-12-15 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/spring-concert monthly 0.5 2026-03-07 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/fremont-250th-usa-celebration monthly 0.5 2026-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/1758132715683-1G2F9QQR1H9Q4SZUSCOS/Fremont_Meeting_House%2C_Fremont_NH.jpg Events - Fremont 250th USA Celebration - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/june-gathering-2-y5c7m-rk5ck-7mrtt-c7lpz-z9kg5-lsz4d-e7tcr-egyjs monthly 0.5 2026-01-27 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/june-gathering-2-y5c7m-rk5ck-7mrtt-c7lpz-z9kg5-lsz4d-e7tcr monthly 0.5 2026-01-27 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/june-gathering-2-y5c7m-rk5ck-7mrtt-c7lpz-z9kg5-lsz4d monthly 0.5 2026-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/39efa7e8-786c-4af8-895e-e2d4a30fc715/Keith-color-promo-lo-res.jpg Events - March Gathering - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/june-gathering-2-y5c7m-rk5ck-7mrtt-c7lpz-z9kg5 monthly 0.5 2026-01-31 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/june-gathering-2-y5c7m-rk5ck-7mrtt monthly 0.5 2025-12-01 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/june-gathering-2-y5c7m-rk5ck-7mrtt-c7lpz monthly 0.5 2025-12-24 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/june-gathering-2-y5c7m-rk5ck-7mrtt-n4alb monthly 0.5 2025-10-10 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/october-gathering-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-09-18 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/june-gathering-2-y5c7m-6acnh monthly 0.5 2026-02-01 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/september-2025-gathering monthly 0.5 2025-09-09 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/june-gathering-2 monthly 0.5 2025-06-07 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/february-gathering-1-67fj7 monthly 0.5 2025-05-02 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/february-gathering-1 monthly 0.5 2025-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/8dc9a239-30ca-49f3-8448-130026a74aa5/Potatoe+on+a+Stick.jpg Events - May Gathering - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/5d4cb20c-ad24-4c89-9eb5-97f947f6d52d/Portsmouth+Hornpipe.jpg Events - May Gathering - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/portsmouth-library-concert-5ncng monthly 0.5 2025-12-15 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/skip-gorman-backup-techniques monthly 0.5 2024-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/d8d8b7d6-b7e9-4c96-a5bd-2942d904cf9a/Skip+in+Shetland.jpg Events - Skip Gorman ~ Backup Techniques - Make it stand out Skip, left in back, with Tom Anderson, second from right, at the Shetland Folk Festival (1990), and a group of fabulous young players. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/033c9452-5f64-46ba-88ce-566fb2b77d7b/Cetlic+Rambles+Cover+vertical.png Events - Skip Gorman ~ Backup Techniques - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/march-gathering-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-03-07 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/december-2024-gathering monthly 0.5 2024-12-02 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/november-gathering-frank-ferrel monthly 0.5 2024-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/36ccc6a7-f069-4e63-93fd-ff58106ae71f/Frank+Ferrel+4.jpeg Events - Workshop with Frank Ferrel - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/october-gathering-2024 monthly 0.5 2024-10-05 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/september-gathering-1 monthly 0.5 2024-08-12 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/portsmouth-library-concert monthly 0.5 2024-11-18 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/june-gathering-1 monthly 0.5 2024-06-07 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/april-gathering monthly 0.5 2024-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/1710252981849-T4CXM7D26PRTK1PLXD55/peterfiddle.jpg Events - April Gathering - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/march-gathering monthly 0.5 2024-03-04 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/january-gathering monthly 0.5 2023-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/1701122234947-8B700QV98X1IVOPTKXBC/Ryan+and+Brennish+Fiddling+Thomsons.png Events - January Gathering - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/february-gathering monthly 0.5 2024-02-09 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/dominque-dodge-concert monthly 0.5 2024-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/e53b5a41-e03d-4984-9d7c-7c220e57c8ef/Dominque+Album.png Events - Dominque Dodge Concert - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/4876d0d3-bbb6-4dee-876e-53162a256d4a/Commuunity+Music+School+Entrance.png Events - Dominque Dodge Concert - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/dominiquedodgeworkshop monthly 0.5 2024-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/1697391949578-TRG3ZM2JGSXRQAQINA2E/Dominique+Round.png Events - May Gathering - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/9fe5c0db-0118-4624-abcd-09ff5ba6f708/Dominiqe+woodpile.png Events - May Gathering - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/e53b5a41-e03d-4984-9d7c-7c220e57c8ef/Dominque+Album.png Events - May Gathering - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/december-gathering monthly 0.5 2023-11-28 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/karen-steven-returns-for-our-november-gathering monthly 0.5 2023-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/80b2b088-2946-4173-9e77-0131d42da9d9/image.jpg Events - Karen Steven & Alastair MacDonald Return for our November Gathering - Karen will be bringing copies of her book to purchase: Nudged…A journey from music career to brain surgery and back again. “…I have just finished reading it (NUDGED) and really wanted to congratulate you on producing such a fantastic book in such an effective way, your writing style is so direct and inclusive, what an open and honest account of what you have encountered…” https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/october-gathering monthly 0.5 2023-10-11 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/bass-hall-2023-6zyha monthly 0.5 2025-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/1685295899991-H4JYNN614QEOHXJB1JVV/Fiddles.png Events - Bass Hall - Peterborough https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/1685296040921-10P0FE944HFJI5PDNSCX/IMG_4022.jpg Events - Bass Hall - Peterborough https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/1685296116696-GI3BI27JZEQGV22LHL7A/IMG_4028.jpg Events - Bass Hall - Peterborough https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/1685296159786-K7JQRZIA8V68ISD3QN81/Partial+Orchestra.png Events - Bass Hall - Peterborough https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/september-gathering monthly 0.5 2023-08-14 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/june-gathering monthly 0.5 2023-05-26 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/may-gathering monthly 0.5 2023-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/1680005231040-NSWB9W46T5FTMZ52M5WL/Ed+Pearlman.png Events - Workshop with Ed Pearlman - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/barn-concert-featuring-jeremiah-mclane-and-his-band monthly 0.5 2023-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/43ab53a6-b236-4e01-80b1-377957c13c25/Screen+Shot+2023-03-30+at+11.08.18+AM.png Events - Barn Concert at Anne’s in Bow - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/monthly-gathering-pam-weeks monthly 0.5 2023-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/1673461394890-9F966FBI6HRE04ROPO3C/Pam+head+shot.jpg Events - Workshop with Pam Weeks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/monthly-gathering-march monthly 0.5 2023-02-23 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/monthly-gathering monthly 0.5 2023-01-21 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/mari-black-celtic-trio monthly 0.5 2023-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/4f2d7ed4-30e5-4dde-91a9-bbb46fc8d3c6/Mari+Trio1.png Events - Mari Black Celtic Trio - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/satellite-jam-session monthly 0.5 2023-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/b6c81d36-56a5-497e-826a-fa15a8b1aa87/SMC+010823_1.png Events - Satellite Jam Session - Nelson - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/smc-january-workshop-with-randy-miller monthly 0.5 2022-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/32c93cd8-881b-4180-9f79-8e668dea1488/Randy+Miller_accordion.jpg Events - SMC January Workshop with Randy Miller - Make it stand out Randy Miller with his accordion (he is also a fiddler) https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/remembering-george-randall monthly 0.5 2022-11-14 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/we-return-to-the-portsmouth-library monthly 0.5 2023-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/e42871f4-66fc-484e-b370-2713ba1aa78c/IMG_4026.jpg Events - NHSMC returns to the Portsmouth Library. - Make it stand out The New Hampshire Scottish Music Club performed for Tartan Day at the historic Bass Hall in Peterborough on April 2, 2023. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/smc-december-gathering monthly 0.5 2022-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/9274220a-fbf4-44a8-a87f-b3f5e461fbf5/GP+round.jpg Events - SMC December Gathering - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/ej9rhfhfdcebu4v8yrrjs637qhyg6u monthly 0.5 2022-10-29 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/smc-november-gathering-features-mari-black monthly 0.5 2022-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/56678026-a3de-465b-a311-ead2ac0a087f/Mari+Black.jpeg Events - SMC November Gathering Features Mari Black - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/fiddle-madness monthly 0.5 2022-10-13 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/events-1/bass-hall-2023 monthly 0.5 2023-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/1668390020890-LJOUJWOGWSGEQ8C3XBIR/Bass+Hall+2015-3.png Events - We Celebrate Tartan Day! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/1668390020949-GYET4A3BA4YQNZ02IGJR/Bass+HAll+2015+2.png Events - We Celebrate Tartan Day! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/1668390022369-KPI2G449CGZSCBMTSQFS/Bass+Hall+2015.png Events - We Celebrate Tartan Day! https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/blog-3-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-30 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/blog-3-1/category/tunes monthly 0.5 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/blog-3-1/category/Articles monthly 0.5 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/blog-3-1/category/Workshop+Summary monthly 0.5 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/blog-3-1/category/News+and+Articles monthly 0.5 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales daily 0.75 2026-03-30 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/april-tunes-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-03-28 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/february-tunes-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/8c838706-ed73-4386-92a7-0672cbaa6b30/BotN.png Tune Tales - February Tunes - 2026 - The Beauty of the North is a nice slow strathspey, in E flat major, often played in competitions to showcase a violinist’s ability. Composed by Captain Simon Fraser, it was first published in 1816 in his ‘Knockie Collection’. The pace of the tune varies widely from musician to musician: Compare these renditions on YouTube music: Patsy Reid , Maxwell Quartet, Alasdair Fraser, and Ron Gonnella, (Patsy’s is my favorite ;=) ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/c2554e71-5005-46a1-aea4-0689627c7004/Lizcole.jpg Tune Tales - February Tunes - 2026 - The third tune is a great G minor jig Lady Elizabeth Coles Reel by Robert Mackintosh. We already have the tune in our repertoire (SRS 13.1). Sylvia presented it on the same page with Loch Ruan, when she began her position as music director in September 2000. This version fixes a typo in the 5th measure (Eb-C-Eb, instead of F-C-F) and includes a different take on the accompaniment chords in this Ian Muir arrangement. Ian, an accordionist, is the current music director for the RSCDS in Scotland. Here is a sheet of practice measures that he gave out at a class I attended. Notice that he uses a different ‘slash chord’ notation, putting the bass note first on these pages. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/january-tunes-2026 monthly 0.5 2026-01-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/a328334e-3662-4f0a-bad4-3a9c16593621/Frank+pic.png Tune Tales - January Tunes - 2026 - In Memory of Frank G. Stewart (1951-2025) (Click on Frank’s name for a link to his obituary.) Click here for an audio recording of the tune This from David MacAdam in response to my request for his permission to play his 4/4 march as a 3/4 retreat march at his memorial service….. “When I sat down to compose "Mr. Frank Stewart of Hudson" I first had in mind a retreat march. On further reflection I wished something uplifting that did not sound funerary. Frank was still with us at that point, and would hear the march played on two separate occasions. I feared a retreat march might sound as if I was writing for his demise. So I revised what I had written into a 4/4 march. But as you see I didn't do a good job of hiding its 3/4 retreat march origins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/3452dbf1-c47a-42a9-a73c-5276086aead9/Screenshot+2025-12-30+160922.png Tune Tales - January Tunes - 2026 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/4e45dd33-8305-41f9-8962-ac565396ee2b/otter-trawling-net-Nettingland.webp Tune Tales - January Tunes - 2026 - Composed by accordionist Ewan McGowan (1945-2015) as a slow air in memory of the Kirkcudbright-based fishing boat the Mhari L (sic) which sank in February 1985 with the loss of all 5 crew. While trawling for scallops in the Irish Sea off the Isle of Man she suddenly disappeared. Ewan was friends with some of the crew. At the time there were conspiracy theories about submarines on NATO war exercises getting entangled in trawler cables and dragging boats down, or trawl nets getting fouled in undersea communication cables. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/ed910299-5ec6-4466-9e82-09b7336265c4/Mhari-L+memorial.png Tune Tales - January Tunes - 2026 Now, 40 years later, a memorial has been installed, and the tune plays nicely as a waltz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/ced51234-bacc-42b3-aeab-b6e6a55ddb49/Sam+Scott+w+caption.png Tune Tales - January Tunes - 2026 - Pipe Major Sam Scott (1905-1972) (audio) Samuel Scott was born in Glasgow on October 6, 1905. His mother and father, Margaret MacLean Paul and William Scott of Glasgow, sailed for Canada two years later and settled in the Ottawa Valley. By the time Samuel was eight years old, he was taking bagpipe lessons and learning Gaelic mouth music from Pipe-Major Tait through the St. Andrew’s Society in Ottawa. In 1920, he enlisted with the Non-Permanent Active Militia, joining the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa (Machine Gun). When Germany invaded Poland in September of 1939, Samuel was among the first senior noncommissioned officers of the Camerons to volunteer to fight for Canada as part of the 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade with the Royal Regiment of Canada, the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry and the Essex Scottish. By September 15, 1939, the Camerons’ Pipe-Major was Samuel Scott, who went to war at the remarkable age of thirty-four. He saw action in WW2 for 5 years. Scott was one of few pipers to play on the Normandy beaches on D-Day, piping troops ashore in 1944.He also served as a machine-gunner and a stretcher-bearer. Prior to his war service he spent some time in the Highlanders’ Club Glasgow where he made lifelong friends with Pipe Major Peter R. MacLeod of Lewis who penned this classic 6/8 march. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/december-tunes-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/a0172397-1459-468d-987a-095adafbcdd6/Treaty+of+Paris+1783 Tune Tales - December Tunes - 2025 - At this time, across the pond, American colonists were smarting from the outcomes of the French and Indian War / Seven Year’s War in 1763, due to increased taxes and control on western expansion. This led to the events of 1776 which the British call “The American War of Independence”. The painting of the 1783 Treaty of Paris is missing the British signatories - one of whom appears in one of the following tales. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/999d13a9-6804-4726-a735-6ed6f0c396fd/Mackintosh+book+2-compressed.jpg Tune Tales - December Tunes - 2025 - We begin with “Red Rob” Mackintosh, so called on account of the colour of his hair and his bad temper, was born about 1745 in Tulliemet, Perthshire, and died 1807 in London. He settled in Edinburgh around 1773, performing and teaching violin (Nathaniel Gow is believed to have been one of his students), spent three years leading a band in Aberdeen before returning to Edinburgh in 1788. He published 4 music collections, in the first one his name was spelled Macintosh. For a deeper dive click here. (hold down the Ctrl key to open a new window) This month’s tunes are both in his 1793 2nd Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/9535388c-b211-4bb6-8d31-d8baa4965643/Niel+Gow+1793.png Tune Tales - December Tunes - 2025 - Niel Gow was born on 22nd March, 1727 at Inver, a hamlet near Dunkeld, (about 8 miles from Tullimet). Son of a plaid weaver, Niel (he always spelt his name in the Gaelic fashion) started the violin at the age of 9 In 1745, as Bonnie Prince Charlie began his ill-fated campaign, Niel won a competition in Perth open to all Scotland. Niel was patronized by three Dukes of Atholl during his long life. A professional musician, he was much in demand to play at important balls and parties, and could command a considerable fee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/b7180f14-7320-44ea-961b-6ae542edfcbc/Nathaniel+Gow.png Tune Tales - December Tunes - 2025 - Nathaniel Gow, the fourth son of Niel Gow, was born at Inver on 28th May, 1763. Like his elder brothers William, John and Andrew, he was taught violin by his father, then sent to Edinburgh to study with Robert Mackintosh. Nathaniel inherited his father’s talents as a violinist, but with his superior education he was the better all-round musician of the two He studied the cello and played the trumpet. In 1782 was appointed one of His Majesty’s Herald Trumpeters in Scotland. In 1791 he succeeded his brother William as the leader of the orchestra that played at the fashionable concerts in Edinburgh. Nathaniel was the leading musical figure in the capital and, like his father, was absent from few really fashionable functions. The aristocracy showered him with gifts, and George IV granted him a pension. In 1796, in partnership with William Shepherd, he started an extensive music publishing business in Edinburgh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/84a3b888-e3c1-4d81-8d3f-06f2df65b54f/Screenshot+2025-11-29+195757.png Tune Tales - December Tunes - 2025 - The name Oliphant came from the Norwegian name Holifard/Holifarth. The name possibly derives from the Norse name Olaf. In the 9th or 10th century Donal Holifard or Holifarth, was shipwrecked on Scotland’s east coast, near present-day Kincardineshire. (Hence the longship in the blog title) He was well received by the King of Scotland (believed to be King Donald I) and treated with respect. He was, it seems, taken in by a local family and fell in love with their daughter. When a ship was sent from Norway to rescue him, he declined to go. The Oliphant clan prospered and grew to have lands throughout Scotland. For an even deeper dive visit Clan Oliphant Association . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/70f8aa91-da43-48cd-bff4-bd31a217ed46/Lady+Nairne.png Tune Tales - December Tunes - 2025 - The family's history includes a renowned Scottish poetess, Carolina Oliphant (Lady Nairne), who was born in 1766 and wrote famous Jacobite songs like "Charlie is my Darling" and "Will Ye' No Come Back Again”. She was from the Oliphant of Gask branch, a branch of the clan that were ardent supporters of Bonnie Prince Charlie and had their estate confiscated for 17 years after the failure of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/2d155e3e-3854-433c-b01f-7c9ceca4fd1a/Golfers.png Tune Tales - December Tunes - 2025 - On the other hand the Oliphants of Rossie supported the monarchy and maintained possession of significant estates in Perthshire well into the 19th century, long after the principal line of the Lords Oliphant had lost most of their lands. The family was prominent in society, producing significant figures, most notably Robert Oliphant, 3rd of Rossie who was appointed the Postmaster General for Scotland in 1766, a position he held for nearly three decades until his death. Robert was an established figure in Scottish society and appeared in Charles Lees' renowned painting "The Golfers". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/0719263b-a384-42b0-96da-c43bb7331ef8/Mary+ramsay+oswald.png Tune Tales - December Tunes - 2025 - There are two possible persons who Mackintosh may have referred to in his title. The first was Mary Ramsay, the daughter of the richest Scottish planters in Jamaica, who became the wife of Richard Oswald in 1750. Richard Oswald (1705-1784) was the son of a Caithness Kirk minister, a merchant in London, and commissioner in Paris for the peace negotiations that concluded the American War of Independence. “At least in part, United States Independence was negotiated between a British slave trader and his agent for rice growing slaves in South Carolina” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/a8614e3d-9e2d-45c9-aeb9-22353df0782c/Auchincruive.jpg Tune Tales - December Tunes - 2025 - He bought the estate of Auchincruive, five miles from Ayr (along with tens of thousands of acres), in 1764, extended it, and filled it with works of art, in part with money he made from the slave trade. Oswald owned a slave castle at Bance Island off the coast of Sierra Leone and was responsible for sending over 13,000 blacks to the southern colonies of America. The castle was "complete with a golf course serviced by tartan-clad African caddies". Later he profited from trade in the American War of Independence, earning the scorn of poet Robert Burns Slavery was abolished in Scotland in 1778, but slave trade continued in the U.K until 1807, finally being abolished in 1833. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/b2f87328-533e-421c-8a5c-7e1275600e62/Burns.png Tune Tales - December Tunes - 2025 - After Oswald’s death in 1784, his widow Mary remained at Auchincruive until her death in London in 1788. She had been reviled locally for her tight-fisted ways with money. She was anathema to the poet Robert Burns (1759-96), who described her as a "venerable votary of iron avarice and sordid pride," and that she was "detested with the most heartfelt cordiality" by her tenants and servants. He called her 'the Priestess of Mammon (the God of Riches)' and wrote a scathing satire after her death in 1788 It was the arrival of her funeral cortege at the Sanquhar Inn, that deprived him of lodgings there for the night and forced him to ride on a further twelve miles on a tiring horse, himself fatigued and the weather stormy and snowing, which pushed him to write a scathing account of her life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/82329ff3-bd5f-4e18-9c2b-24ff3a7ed99b/Lucy+Oswald+color.png Tune Tales - December Tunes - 2025 - On the other hand she might have been the talented, intelligent and beautiful Miss Louisa “Lucy” Johnston of Hilton (c. 1760-1797), daughter of Wayne Johnstone of Hilton, was a distinguished amateur musician and dancer, who became Mrs. Oswald in 1793. The portrait was painted about a year after the sitter’s marriage in 1793 to Richard Alexander Oswald (1771-1841), a Member of Parliament, who inherited the estate after his mother, Mary, died in 1788. Lucy Johnston was a composer of tunes who had some of her works published by the Gows. In praise of her beauty, Burns wrote a song, "O, Wat ye Wha’s in Yon Town." The setting sun brilliantly illuminates the sky through a screen of tree trunks and foliage, a device Raeburn favored in the mid-1790s. The subject is shown seated outdoors holding a book, lost in thought. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/61af8041-b890-4abb-88e1-48d6b71e0a3f/Troublesome+Things.png Tune Tales - December Tunes - 2025 - On his 2009 album “Troublesome Things” Brendan Ring records the Lisnagun jig twice, first in the opening track, then in track 8, paired with a pipe tune. Lisnagun is an anglicisation of Lios na gCon or “Fort of the Hound”, a place located about 40 miles from Dublin on the Meath Cavan border between Carnaross and Munterconnacht. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/4c36d517-ee64-4edc-8e09-a94d8744f477/B+Ring.png Tune Tales - December Tunes - 2025 - Brendan Ring is a uilleann pipes master as well as a harp player. He’s also a pipe maker and a tune composer. Many of his tunes that he composed during the nineties are nowadays played all around the world in Irish trad sessions and are very often considered as part of the traditional repertoire. He and his wife Michelle recently moved to Ireland from central Brittany. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/2f4b7e32-74d8-48b6-b491-cd324172219a/Oriental_MS_Indic_beta_511_Wellcome_L0029118+%281%29.jpg Tune Tales - December Tunes - 2025 - In his words: I'm an Irish musician, composer and instrument maker. I play wire strung harp, uilleann pipes and low whistle. These three instruments span the entire history of Irish music. The harp was played for nearly a thousand years before that ‘new’ instrument the uilleann pipes came along. Someday, the low whistle will be old and traditional! I live in the west of Ireland with my wife the writer Michèle Vassal (Sandgames, A Taste for Hemlock). We have an unreasonable number of cats and a dog pretending to be a bear, or possibly the other way round, we are not quite sure! A Shamanic Kundalini Awakening is my first book. It is a personal account of an intense spiritual awakening experience that I have been undergoing for a number of years. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/november-tunes-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/1ab2119a-4471-4f2f-816e-62c12ce45890/SCD-8-4-010.jpg Tune Tales - November Tunes - 2025 - A Prayer for Jamie - audio This retreat air is the composition of Scottish dance band leader Jim MacLeod (1928-2004). Jim was a well known television and radio musician in the 1960s and 70s, and a committed charity fundraiser. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/ab532e9f-20e0-417f-9a67-37047e9c8d9d/blues+house.png Tune Tales - November Tunes - 2025 - Tigh na Gorm (The Blue’s House) - audio Composed by fiddler and band leader Ian Powrie (1923-2011), this retreat march is named for the Perthshire house of his button box player Jimmy Blue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/9052d656-4454-4cc8-9ac5-6f6e696742c3/onstage.jpg Tune Tales - November Tunes - 2025 - Powrie was born in 1923 at Strathardle, near Blairgowrie in Perthshire. His father, Will Powrie, was an accomplished melodeon player, and recorded several excellent sides for Beltona during the early 1930s. At age twelve Ian was playing in his father’s dance band, but on piano accordion! In 1949 he formed his first band, this time playing fiddle while his brother Bill played accordion. Jimmy Blue took over from him after Powrie emigrated to Australia in 1966. Powrie returned in 1984, and stayed at a farmhouse in Corrieburn near Auchterarder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/a2c8bc5f-0fae-4ade-9031-9ff0c31c814a/37226.jpg Tune Tales - November Tunes - 2025 - Lord Huntly’s Cave, another 2/4 pipe march was composed by violinist J. Scott Skinner. It commonly follows Gay Gordons when the round-the-room couple dance is played. Skinner classes this a quickstep (mm=112). Published in (The Scottish Violinist), 1900; p. 34 and (Harp and Claymore), 1904; p. 25 (with variation sets). - audio The cave is situated about two miles north of Grantown-on-Spey in a rocky glen George Gordon, second Marquis of Huntly (1590-1649), hid in this cave during Montrose's campaign of 1644-45. Huntly was born in to a Catholic family and was loyal to King Charles I. Despite his role as King's lieutenant in the north he was reluctant to take a stand against the Protestant Covenanters. He refused to support the Marquis of Montrose who had originally fought for the Covenanters but had changed sides. Huntly was eventually beheaded 22 March 1649 when the hard-line protestant regime gained power in Scotland https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/october-tune-tales-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/718f3298-9be9-48a1-bcfe-ca71ccdb3115/74th+tartan_.jpg Tune Tales - October Tunes - 2025 - The 74th Highland Regiment’s tartan was based on the Black Watch, with a white stripe added. The 74th Highlanders’ Quickstep (A mixolydian) appears in Kerr's collections as well as the Gunn Collection. The regiment was first raised in 1777 to fight in America and was disbanded in 1784 after the Treaty of Paris. It was re-formed in 1787, fought in India, and later became part of the Highland Light Infantry (the 71st). Explore more of the history Here and here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/27bdf501-131f-4e8c-83a6-d2ecc5b75f96/crow+stuff.png Tune Tales - October Tunes - 2025 - Crowhillock (A Major). This strathspey was composed by Archibald Duff, who published his first Collection in 1794. Duff was born in Montrose, but later moved to Aberdeen to assume the music/dancing master practice of the famous Francis Peacock. Crowhillock is in Kindardineshire, Aberdeenshire, north-east Scotland. Place-names of West Aberdeenshire (1899), by James Macdonald, Donald Mackinnon and Sir Charles Edward Troup, gives that Crow Hillock was "Part of Braeside Wood, on which are very old Scotch firs, where there has been a rookery 'for ages past' ". [Yes, I know those aren’t Scotch firs!] https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/september-tunes-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/38e4f53b-3b74-4487-ba64-7323e14e6407/Roberton.jpg Tune Tales - September Tunes - 2025 - Robertson’s Reel, is a fine Shetland reel in A major, composed in 1938 by Tom Anderson (1910 - 1991). Titled in honor of Scottish fiddler Arthur S. Robertson (1911 - 2000) who was taught by both Peter Milne and ‘old’ Willie Hunter. This setting is from the Portland Collection of contra dance tunes (Vol 1, p.168) Listen here (at 1.43) to mandolin great, David Surette, playing it on his CD “The Green Mandolin”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/940d2879-d72f-4789-b9c0-bceab272031a/Kaitoke.jpg Tune Tales - September Tunes - 2025 - I first learned the tune ‘The Hills of Kaitoke’ from Catherine Fraser who taught at the Boston Harbor School of Scottish Fiddling in 2007. Read more about the tune here. Kaitoke Regional Park was home for 10 years to the Southern Hemisphere International School of Scottish Fiddle (SHISSF) run by Catherine Fraser and held annually in New Zealand. In 2013, during a visit to my antipodean cousins, I attended the last SHISSF at Camp Kaitoke in Upper Hutt, about 90 minutes north-east of Wellington. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/e58d1511-260a-4fa6-8028-f5687e297586/K+Hills.jpg Tune Tales - September Tunes - 2025 - Rivendell Rivendell is notable for being where the home of Elves in Lord of the Rings was filmed by Peter Jackson who lived in Wellington. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/fw76seyozxbv1almiho8h9c7fgx7jc monthly 0.5 2025-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/6fb403b3-872e-4606-8d7c-baadc103babb/Bridgeoffeugh+%282%29.jpg Tune Tales - June Tunes - 2025 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/may-tunes-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/3a5533a1-ae88-4bd6-b55b-f01eb7ebca79/Forth_Bridge_2022.jpg Tune Tales - May Tunes - 2025 - Make it stand out The most famous bridge in Scotland is the Forth Bridge. Opened in 1890, the Forth Bridge is a Scottish icon that is recognised the world over as the most famous of cantilever designs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/1745587268677-U5OYUE8OIKDRKG75KARN/Cantilever_bridge_human_model.jpg Tune Tales - May Tunes - 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/1745587713043-UC798OKQ19PADJ0NMRRJ/kerchief22.jpg Tune Tales - May Tunes - 2025 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/april-tunes-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/99071b57-68cf-4637-8f21-9f73b7241fb1/big+hebs+gaelic.png Tune Tales - April Tunes - 2025 - Most of the tunes I thought were traditional Hebrides music weren’t very traditional at all! Many old tunes were collected around the turn of the 19th-20th century when many Gaelic folk songs were in danger of disappearing as a result of population decline. However, when set to appeal to listeners in England and Lowland Scotland they lost their essential Gaelic-ness. The Eriskay Love Lilt (SRS-SMC 12.2) was collected in 1905 by Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser and published in her book Songs of the Hebrides. She visited the Hebrides, collecting traditional Gaelic songs from old people who still sang them. Born in Perth in 1857 and trained to be a musician, she was a young widow of 33 with two small children to support and worked as a music teacher and lecturer in Edinburgh. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/bo71mggjfglodqnb5zzhf3edg9pmt0 monthly 0.5 2025-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/1868c629-9008-4b1b-af82-00a3dfad689b/OFF.jpg Tune Tales - February Tunes -2025 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/b5fa5a48-6f44-4a69-b2bd-6d82b1c54d02/DOTS.jpg Tune Tales - February Tunes -2025 - Above is the data for Off the California its theme code is 1126L 1565 FlRST: establish the "Key Note" [G in this tune] SECOND: establish the Time Signature to find the beat notes in the first bars THIRD: build the Theme Code, based upon the Key and Time Signatures https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/january-tunes-2025 monthly 0.5 2024-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/b62c1dc9-55b9-438b-a70e-6bf8a0c56dc9/Cradle+D.jpg Tune Tales - January Tunes - 2025 - The Cradle Song was composed by the self-styled "Strathspey King," James Scott Skinner (1843-1927), and printed in his Logie Collection (1888). The music is in D major, and common time (C), in the usual arrangement of violin/voice part, and the piano part for two hands. Squeezed underneath the title is 'As sung by Miss Dolly Donaldson'. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/353cc341-0fd0-4586-8abe-51f2d678189b/Cradle+A.jpg Tune Tales - January Tunes - 2025 - In the Logie Collection, the melody was set in A major for violin. Compare this version with the above setting, where the Cradle Song vocal line is set comfortably for the middle range of most voices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/2de07e10-771b-412b-aa46-5549447791c3/Screenshot+2024-12-24+11.00.02+AM.png Tune Tales - January Tunes - 2025 - Skip’s Scottish March is typical of the tunes often used for the Highland Fling, such as Bog an Lochan (12.1) and Gillie Callum, and for dancing a Schottische or a bouncy strathspey To my ear, the melody resembles Loudon’s Bonnie Woods and Braes aka Lord Moira. The B part has birls or cuts on the E note, also found in the following reel where the cuts are on the A note. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/702c4ea5-dc9d-4c2e-a1a4-8517c803b6ea/Millbrae.jpg Tune Tales - January Tunes - 2025 - Millbrae is an A major reel, composed by Shetlands pianist and accordion player Ronnie Cooper (1934-1982) of Lerwick. The notation for the January music is from Christine Martin’s Ceol na Fidhle. Millbrae was the name of the home of pianist Eileen Hunter, with whom Cooper was staying while playing for a wedding on the Shetland island of Unst. The house was a shop in the early 19th century. *Photo from TuneArch.org annotation https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/pipe-marches-with-a-glendaruel-connection monthly 0.5 2024-12-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/2d2f12f4-1862-44a0-8bba-cb92561a751f/Glendaruel+locatio+map.png Tune Tales - December - Pipe Marches with a Glendaruel connection - The Sweet Maid of Glendaruel According to TuneArch - The Scots Guards Standard Pipe Setting suggests that “The Sweet Maid of Glendaruel” follow “Campbell's Farewell to Redcastle.” Christine Martin (2002) prints the tune along with “Terribus” and “Corriechoillies Welcome to the Northern Meeting” as a medley for the dance The Gay Gordons. Glendaruel is a glen in the Cowal peninsula in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, on the way to Tighnabruaich from Glencoe and is nearly as far to the south from Glencoe as Redcastle is to the north. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/0b8593e6-c357-4cf1-8051-50f640d9d20a/Campeltown+location+map.png Tune Tales - December - Pipe Marches with a Glendaruel connection - Glendaruel Highlanders This quick step was written by Aberdeen Pipe Major A. Fettes (1845-1921) for the family of MacDougall-Gillies (d. 1925), a 19th century champion piper who was a native of Glendaruel, Argyll Paul Cranford (2015) notes that modern piping versions of the march are in four strains, but that Cape Breton fiddlers (who play it as a jig) only play three parts[1]. I have always known it as Campbeltown Loch. See below https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/ef69f693-acaf-4681-a47a-018b89361f30/Campbeltownloch.jpg Tune Tales - December - Pipe Marches with a Glendaruel connection - Make it stand out Campletown Loch is a small sea loch near the south of the Kintyre Peninsula facing eastwards towards the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. The town of Campbeltown, from which it takes its name, is located at its head. The loch is immortalized in the folk song of the same name, re-popularized by Andy Stewart in the 1960s. Click here to hear the song and see images of old Campbeltown in its heyday. In the song the writer Alan Cameron expresses his desire that the loch be full of whisky, a commentary of sorts on the fact that Campbeltown was originally a center of whisky distilling but that the price of whisky in the town itself was unaffordable. Click here for the words of all the five verses. Chorus: Oh! Campbeltown Loch, Ah wish ye were whisky! Campbeltown Loch, Och Aye! Campbeltown Loch, I wish ye were whisky! Ah wid drink ye dry. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/november-tunes-2024 monthly 0.5 2024-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/e078170f-3950-4d7d-9f69-5756382c5818/memories-of-skye-16-of-195-50-x-75cm-image-715-x-915cm-triple-mount-325-med.jpg Tune Tales - November Tunes - 2024 - “Back in the 1980’s I was Guest Artist on tour with the Boys of the Lough as part of their annual summer Highlands and Islands tour. The tour took us to Skye where Aly Bain and I spent an afternoon fishing on the Ose River, followed by our Saturday night concert in Portree. “The next morning we attempted to take the ferry back to the mainland for our Sunday concert there, but to no avail, as the ferry was operated by the ‘Wee Frees,’ members of the pious Free Church of Scotland, who refused to operate the ferry on Sunday. This was long before the new bridge between Kyle of Lochalsh on the Scottish mainland and Kyleakin on the east coast of Skye. We eventually made it over with the help of a local fisherman who ‘ferried’ us and our equipment across for the Sunday gig. We returned to Skye on Monday to retrieve the van. A vivid memory indeed, of Skye.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/e2b36dea-9988-4f75-b255-623f12b30903/JSS+Thrums+MS+0232.jpg Tune Tales - November Tunes - 2024 - Frank got the Thrums Cairn Reel from the legendary maritime Franco fiddler, Tommy Doucet, who called it, The Erin Reel. Tommy lived in the Boston area, and was close friends with Alcide Aucoin, Alec Gillis, and Betty Mallet, all members of the famous Boston-based Cape Breton group, The Inverness Serenaders. He most likely learned Thrums Cairn from them, renaming it to his own liking Scottish playwright and novelist J.M. Barrie (of Peter Pan fame) wrote several novels using the fictional setting of Thrums (see, for example, his A Window in Thrums) said to be modeled on Barrie's home town of his "wee red toon" Kirriemuir, Angus ('red' due to the color of the sandstone on which the older properties are built). https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/october-tunes monthly 0.5 2024-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/1e80a5cf-ed1f-4d09-bda9-e03e1d9c674e/Screenshot+2024-10-04+150343.png Tune Tales - October 2024 Tunes - Listen to Catriona Macdonald playing it here Hurlock’s Reel is a hornpipey/marchy A major reel composed by Tom Anderson in 1938. Harry Hurlock played drums for Davie Robertson’s dance band, in which Tom was the fiddler. It is a popular Shetland dance band and session tune. I have it in the RSC graded exam book 4 for accordion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/692a54da-901c-43d8-b6fc-ad30ff984316/Screenshot+2024-10-04+150323.png Tune Tales - October 2024 Tunes - Auld (Old) Willie Hunter was composed by Ronnie Cooper for the father of Willie Hunter Jr. who composed the slow air Leaving Lerwick Harbour (SRS 34.02) and the reel The Cape Breton Symphony’s Welcome to Shetland (SRS 11.16). Young Willie was a member of the dance band The Hamefarers along with Ronnie. Old Willie Hunter was a founding member of the Shetland Folk Society band Da Forty Fiddlers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/85dd1aa7-935b-45db-b767-e9af2b9f636e/Screenshot+2024-10-04+150232.png Tune Tales - October 2024 Tunes - The John McAlpin strathspey was devised by Hugh Foss, a brilliant cryptanalyst who worked at Bletchley Park on breaking the German Enigma code. In 1944 he worked in the United States to decipher Japanese naval messages. Foss wrote this about the dance: The ideas in this dance came from fencing. Bars 1–4 represent a one-two, where a fencer feints on one side of his opponent’s blade and disengages to make the real attack on the other side. Bars 5–8 represent one-two-deceive (get a fencer to explain this). When one fencer retires his opponent usually advances. This inspired bars 17–24. Sometimes fencers rush up so close to each other that they have to be separated by the referee. This is known as a corps-à-corps. Hence bars 25–32. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/september-tunes-1 monthly 0.5 2024-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/fd913dd5-705a-405f-8dd8-943cfbe0e792/st+Columba.jpg Tune Tales - September Tunes - The first tune this month is a D major bagpipe tune, an anthem/processional march - Highland Cathedral, composed in 1982 by two Germans, Michael Korb and Ulrich Roever for a Highland games in Berlin. Read more about it here. The tune was chosen by pop singer and actress Madonna as her wedding march in 2001. Also listen to Andre Rieu’s orchestral version here. The Saint Columba Church of Scotland in Glasgow held services in Gaelic until 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/742de477-6e4f-4b6d-94be-f02003a2eef7/winnie.png Tune Tales - September Tunes - The next tune, also in D major, The Bonnie Lass of Headlake, is a marching air composed by Gordon MacQuarrie, perhaps in honor of fiddler Winnie Chafe, a native of Headlake, Cape Breton. The melody was picked up by Irish musicians in the 1960's and played as a hornpipe. You can find that arrangement in the concert music. Whatever the pace is, the way you play the tune can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/adb951ea-979d-4cb6-9e43-38007d7693c2/bugle.jpg Tune Tales - September Tunes - Next we’re off to the races with two traditional clogs or hornpipes in flat keys: Saratoga in F, named for the race course town in New York, and Good for the Tongue, a rather difficult tune in B flat. The title perhaps hints that it was first composed for a trumpet or keyed bugle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/898eef5c-465d-4288-8d59-937008ad6fad/Otis+Tomas.jpg Tune Tales - September Tunes - The last September tune, My Otis Tomas Mandolin , is a driving reel in C major composed by the late Jerry Holland (1955-2009). Otis Tomas is a composer and luthier from Rhode Island who settled in Goose Cove, Cape Breton. Local fiddlers Brenda Stubbert, Dougie MacDonald and Paul Cranford play Otis Tomas fiddles. Visit his website to learn about the ancient giant sugar maple that provides the wood for his creations: https://www.fiddletree.com/books/index.html https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/june-2024-tune-tales monthly 0.5 2024-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/a3c9e794-9d1d-4ed9-8f67-a788902246d0/Mallard+Island+pic.jpg Tune Tales - June’s Tunes - A long-time regular on Garrison Keiller’s Prairie Home Companion, Peter was a multi-instrumentalist who wrote this waltz for Minnesota: A History of the Land (2005). Ken Burns later featured it in his documentary The National Parks: America’s Best Idea (2009). You can hear the Celtic Mandolins and John Kelly performing this tune here on YouTune Music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/4160ee21-e9d8-40c2-a54e-7e4f35d9b26e/Drunk.jpg Tune Tales - June’s Tunes - Dave Wasilew presented this melody in 2013 (SRS 25.15), as a three part march in A major. The 4 part setting here, from the Niel Gow - 3rd Repository (1806), has been transposed to G and D for the coming season’s concerts, as an air. Hear cellist Abbey Newton and fiddler Alasdair Fraser playing the tune here on Newton’s 1997 CD, Crossing to Scotland. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/may-tunes-2024 monthly 0.5 2024-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/bb39bb0d-2bee-458a-9ea6-7efe6d068c84/Screen+Shot+2024-05-10+at+6.20.10+PM.png Tune Tales - May Tunes - 2024 - A very old melody, the origin of The Eagle’s Whistle is shrouded in the mists of time. The Irish O’Donovan clan claim it as their clan march, while the Manx repertoire has it as Arane ny Niee - The Washing Song - a fairy song heard by mothers washing their babies feet in the stream. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/717f622e-dacc-40ca-ab9f-da218b6bd7d7/Screen+Shot+2024-05-10+at+6.24.05+PM.png Tune Tales - May Tunes - 2024 Did You See the Deer - (Fac Thu na Feidh) is another jig, in G this time, but not resolving at the end. Like many Scottish tunes, we are left hanging with the 6th of the scale. The melody is also found in Wales, while the rhythmic structure is similar to Over the Water to Charlie, and The De’ils awa wi th’Exciseman. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/april-tunes monthly 0.5 2024-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/7b686aa4-2f7e-4b98-b83a-367ad330d34c/_Strathspeys+-+Four+Classic+Forms+%282%29.jpg.jpeg Tune Tales - April Tunes - 2024 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/march-tunes-2024 monthly 0.5 2024-02-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/d3b2c215-6965-4c9a-9af6-4ba3be0595cf/Cow_on_Pupers.jpg Tune Tales - March Tunes - 2024 - Make it stand out A Hairy Coo https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/february-2024-tunes monthly 0.5 2024-01-27 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/january-tunes-2024 monthly 0.5 2023-12-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/1703526532778-8WR0TI3KN3S6GN06HF8C/John+Catherine+Katie+Thomson+1901+SLC+Utah.png Tune Tales - January Tunes - 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/1703526531425-FJFPWXQDI5XO22ZJFA6B/John+Strang+Thomson+and+his+buggy+SLC+Utah+1900.png Tune Tales - January Tunes - 2024 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/december-tunes monthly 0.5 2023-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/be66dca0-7262-4705-a6cf-833e6c1d2013/Badge+of+Scotland.jpg Tune Tales - December Tunes The Order of the Thistle, founded in 1540 by King James V, is the highest honor in Scotland. The badge has the thistle in the center, with a saltire cross surmounted by a star of four silver points, and a green circle bordered and lettered with gold, with the motto “Nemo me impune lacessit”, “No-one harms me without punishment” but more commonly translated in Scots as “Wha daurs meddle wi me”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/daf21272-cb14-43fb-a751-40560749ddb2/Harry+Lauder+Music+book+cover.jpg Tune Tales - December Tunes - Harry Lauder Music book cover on right. In 1905 he made a hit with I Love a Lassie. The alternative words I used to sing as a young lad in Dundee went like this: I love a sausage a Co-operative sausage. You can tell it’s Co-operative by the smell. If you fry it wi’ an ingin’, you can hear the ingin’ singin’, Mary ma Scotch Bluebell ! (The Co-op was our local grocery store, and an ingin’ is an onion in the Dundee dialect) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/1be07196-3dea-4726-a9ab-ccd8a4adc899/Deoch+an+Doris+music+page.jpg Tune Tales - December Tunes In 1912 he had another hit with “A Wee Deoch-an-Doris”. This translates from the Gaelic as “A Little Drink at the Door” , and celebrated a time honored custom of ‘one for the road!’. Those were the days before breathalyzers and DUI’s !! https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/november-tunes monthly 0.5 2023-10-15 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/october-tune monthly 0.5 2023-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/40fecf9d-7df8-4e1d-a3b1-d8ca25da90e8/Dougie_Book.gif Tune Tales - October’s Tune Dougie MacDonald composed this month’s tune, John Morris Rankin, for his friend in 1989 and included it in his book of fiddle tunes. Jerry Holland became Dougie’s fiddle mentor and has a slightly different setting of it on page 43 in his Second Collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/0f42d784-ba71-4f20-a828-d433b7936527/C+Breton.jpg Tune Tales - October’s Tune - Coming from two musical families, they lived only an hour apart in Inverness county. The Rankins in Mabou, and the MacDonalds in Queensville. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/e8714a84-311b-483b-9ab9-11720a575615/image.jpg Tune Tales - October’s Tune John Morris Rankin 1959 - 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/511f8b32-330a-456b-9ac9-0b67152a619e/Dougie+In+Memoriam.jpg Tune Tales - October’s Tune - Dougie MacDonald 1968 - (between Chistmas and New Year) 2009 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/september-tunes monthly 0.5 2023-09-07 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/june2023 monthly 0.5 2023-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/8d6dbdd8-e7a3-4f28-9bf9-7725d1511718/John+Mason+solo.jpg Tune Tales - June’s Tunes John Mason https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/48ec88b2-a259-402f-aa8b-a19feeff9277/Spin-N-Glo+label.jpg Tune Tales - June’s Tunes - Spin-N-Glo in G major is named for a neon-colored fishing lure, which the composer thought “spins and glows just like the dancers do.” Ferrell caught his first Steelhead trout fishing in the Pacific northwest with the lure. The jig plays nicely to begin with but has a hook or two to snag the unwary musician! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/a9678cd6-63a7-43b4-9ea0-ed7ea968ab99/closet+stovefinal.jpg Tune Tales - June’s Tunes - The next Frank Ferrel jig is in D major, The New Stove . I got the chords from the Roaring Jelly version. The stove image is from page 133 of his published collection of 315 original compositions. Quite a fancy contraption it looks! https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/ed-pearlmans-tunes-for-may monthly 0.5 2023-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/5a5b7a7d-6ed4-4fbb-b4d4-a167afd96c5a/Screen+Shot+2023-04-16+at+9.25.17+PM.png Tune Tales - Ed Pearlman’s Tunes for May - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/aprilpam monthly 0.5 2023-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/38277864-c399-41f4-bb53-0fef4d1f9fcb/Sir-Hector-MacDonald-Monument.jpg Tune Tales - Hector the Hero - The most significant monument to MacDonald is the National Memorial in Dingwall. This was constructed between 1904 and 1907 (architect James Sandford Kay), its hundred foot high tower dominating the hillside above the town. Sited on the summit of Mitchell Hilll above Dingwall, this beautiful castellated tower stands (now amid a beautiful cemetery) in silent tribute to Ross-shire’s (and Scotland’s) most famous son, Major-General Sir Hector Archibald Macdonald KCB, DSO, ADC, LLD.(1853-1903), otherwise known as “fighting Mac” and “Hector the Hero”. For his services in South Africa he was created a K.C.B. in 1900, and given the command of the Belgaum district in southern India in 1901. In May 1902 he was transferred to the command of the troops in Ceylon. However, as the local tea planters did not welcome the son of a crofter, disaster befell him. Early in 1903 an opprobrious accusation against him (of homosexuality) was reported to the governor of Ceylon (Sir West Ridgeway), who at once granted Macdonald's request for leave to return to London and discuss the matter with the war office authorities. The latter directed a court of inquiry to be held in Ceylon. Macdonald left London for Ceylon on 24 March, and shot himself next day at the Hôtel Regina in Paris. He was buried in the Dean cemetery, Edinburgh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/3cee682e-f791-41e4-9813-e566ecc05c69/Camp+Coffee.jpg Tune Tales - Hector the Hero - Another Claim to Fame for Hector Major-General Hector Macdonald https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/7006a98b-6c13-429c-83bb-51b7518b35bc/New+Camp+Labell.jpg Tune Tales - Hector the Hero - Make it stand out New ‘PC’ Label https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/3646168e-47b3-4997-93fc-91973c08ed21/Outlander+Season+2+p2.jpg Tune Tales - Hector the Hero - Make it stand out Drummond Castle is well known for its gardens. Situated near Crieff, overlooking Strathearn at the eastern edge of the Trossachs, these gardens were used in Outlander season 2 in the episode “Untimely Resurrection” as the Gardens of Versailles. While there, Claire and Jamie unexpectedly come across “Black Jack” Randall. Click here for a drone tour of the grounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/e72f466d-7690-4abd-9e01-d2d31d926f03/300px-Sandyskinner.jpg Tune Tales - Hector the Hero MASTER ANDREW GRANT was composed by Alexander Forbes "Sandy" Skinner (1833–1883). The elder brother of the famous fiddler-composer and dancing master James Scott Skinner (1843-1927) who was the youngest of six children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/a00e22ae-a8f8-4766-a677-409a53bf063e/home-ticket.jpg Tune Tales - Hector the Hero The title of the reel possibly refers to Andrew Grant (1855-1943), a son of John Grant, Queen Victoria's head forester at Balmoral. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/march-tunes-from-a-member-and-visitor monthly 0.5 2023-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/1676404435241-33F8KU44X7TYQAXCO5HI/Karen.png Tune Tales - March Tunes - from a Member and a Visitor - Make it stand out Karen Steven paid a surprise visit to SMC during our February 12 gathering. Click to read Karen’s Style Tips & Techniques https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/efe52cf4-7f22-4cf8-9e72-14b19e26e17e/map.png Tune Tales - March Tunes - from a Member and a Visitor - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/6b82bde3-8d86-485e-9a9b-d82dbd83f56c/Untitled.png Tune Tales - March Tunes - from a Member and a Visitor The Dounreay Fast Reactor was housed in a 139’ steel sphere. You can see it here with the hills in the background. The last of the plutonium was removed in 2019, but the site still remains active and provides local employment. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/what-is-seann-triubhas-uillechan- monthly 0.5 2023-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/690e213b-e0b9-42e4-baee-e88ec043bb16/Untitled.png Tune Tales - February’s Tunes: What is Seann Triubhas Uillechan ? - Make it stand out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni8M5BhD6R0 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/9933587f-07f1-4d70-a649-851210355725/qrcode.png Tune Tales - February’s Tunes: What is Seann Triubhas Uillechan ? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/january-randy-miller-workshop monthly 0.5 2022-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/4ac7a89a-8774-4ae9-9324-fbad70dae407/Dark+Island.png Tune Tales - January’s Tunes  -- Randy Miller Workshop - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/22c492fd-d745-4719-a95d-190da10ba6bb/The+Iron+Lady+.png Tune Tales - January’s Tunes  -- Randy Miller Workshop - Make it stand out The Iron Lady https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/8b059a54-ccdf-4aac-8946-85b5ea837d56/Jenny+Geddes+stool+St+Giles.png Tune Tales - January’s Tunes  -- Randy Miller Workshop - Make it stand out Jenny Geddes stool https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/zmheeksu564rdza2xzblyhu3bhtrtm monthly 0.5 2022-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/1668450536933-FWQ3MT6A4D8F44QPTV7F/IoM_2.jpg Tune Tales - December’s Tunes - More Manx Melodies - The Isle of Man is a self-governing British Crown Dependency like the Channel Islands. It lies in the Irish Sea, roughly equidistant between England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, and was part of the Norwegian Kingdom of the Southern Isles until the 13th century. In January 2004, Sylvia Miskoe presented some Manx tunes to us, with an explanation of why native Manx tunes are mostly in the Dorian or Aeolian modes - namely the lack of bagpipes! https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/novembers-tunes monthly 0.5 2022-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/7ae554da-b8ff-4a89-b208-4eaf3102ce97/Untitled.png Tune Tales - November’s Tunes - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/tune-lore-by-sylvia-miskoe monthly 0.5 2022-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/5bb91ab6-1124-4146-8b34-0d30f5d56f0a/sylvia4.jpeg Tune Tales - Tune Lore, by Sylvia Miskoe - Make it stand out Sylvia Miskoe, founding mother and former music director, remains active in NH Scottish Music Club. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/tune-details monthly 0.5 2022-11-06 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/tune-tales/category/tunes monthly 0.5 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/smc-news daily 0.75 2026-03-30 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/smc-news/evelyn-m-e-murray-1937-2025 monthly 0.5 2026-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/ff9fa5c2-a0ac-4736-be4c-d23c9255affb/Ev+Murray+MIT.jpg News - Evelyn M. E. Murray (1937 - 2025) - Evelyn was born in Nairobi, where her father, a Murray of Atholl, was a radio engineer in the diplomatic service. Her family belonged to Clan Murray, and Evelyn’s father and later Evelyn herself were active in Clan affairs. She graduated from Southampton University with a degree in physics and math, and, after further study at Tufts University and MIT, she embarked on a career in engineering, including a stint at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington. In 1971, she joined the Society for Women Engineers and became a Fellow Life Member of the Society. Those familiar with her work described her as a “ground-breaking woman engineer.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/3a77a3c7-a261-4069-971e-73737ea0fa2b/New+Athol+Coll.png News - Evelyn M. E. Murray (1937 - 2025) - (From the PhD Thesis of Jane MacMorran) The New Atholl Collection, published in 1986 by American publisher ScotPress, was a collaboration between Ron Gonnella and Evelyn M.E. Murray, an American RSCDS-certified dance instructor who lived in Massachusetts. Murray founded the Atholl Brose record label so that Gonnella’s music could be recorded for dancing. Evelyn also produced recordings for Scottish musicians including Lezlie Paterson, Barbara McOwen, and Jeanne Morrill; Stan Hamilton and Ron Gonnella; and Bonnie Rideout. The collection “commemorates the bi-centenary of Robert Burns’ Highland tour of 1787 being a compilation of Scottish fiddle music, Scottish country dances, descriptive text and photographs’. Gonnella explains the choice of title as reflecting the original Athole Collection (by James Stewart-Robertson, W.S. of Edradynate, Atholl and Edinburgh), which, when it appeared in 1884, was almost certainly the largest collection of Scottish dance music ever published. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/smc-news/new-member-profile-annelise monthly 0.5 2026-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/c32099ba-ca02-4a63-b68f-386d4292e8c6/Annelise.jpg News - New Member Profile: Annelise - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/07630588-4b29-4d64-91a8-a07f1e61447e/Annelise+and+Genticorum.jpeg News - New Member Profile: Annelise - Make it stand out Me and my classmates with Genticorum (swoon) in February. Genticorum is my all-time favorite band and I could probably talk for hours about them! You can watch some of their videos here or listen to their album material here. The pic is from a concert last February, before which we had the band as well as some of my closest friends from law school over for dinner. It was tremendous fun and I didn't even faint once despite being starstruck the whole time!! 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He was my bus buddy on the last SRS tour of Scotland, so I got to know him more than just playing in the Galas. I loved his sense of humor. My condolences to all who loved him. 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He followed that by playing the Full Rigged Ship, and The New Rigged Ship, both in our repertoire (10.1 & 22.06) Here's the link to Frank playing on his CD ‘Yankee Dreams’: https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/workshop-summaries/october-gathering-summary monthly 0.5 2026-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/cb58ec54-4e44-4f61-98c1-f2427bdbc473/learn_circle_1.jpg Workshop Summaries - October Gathering Summary - Royal Scottish Country Dance Society The sea change in music for Scottish Country Dancing coincided with the death of James Scott Skinner (1927), the rise in popularity of accordion music, and the formation of the RSCDS (1923). The Society was formed to codify the old style dances in the face of new influx of continental ballroom dances such as the waltz or quadrilles and, later on, American-style dances like the One-step or foxtrot. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/workshop-summaries/september-2024-gathering-summary monthly 0.5 2026-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/8c5bc3e8-b59d-4bd8-964c-cd878a62e556/IMG_5896_1.JPG Workshop Summaries - September (2024) Gathering Summary - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/workshop-summaries/june-gathering-summary monthly 0.5 2024-06-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/9ba84758-0e27-45e2-8520-0c65d02b9553/park.jpg Workshop Summaries - June Gathering Summary - Make it stand out Inside the Park Theatre https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/workshop-summaries/dominique-dodge-workshop-summary monthly 0.5 2024-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/6ac5a324-ad3c-42d4-bf31-64a570572819/Dominique+Round.png Workshop Summaries - 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Jeremiah McLane February 11, 2024 Workshop Summary - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/904c1ecb-7e55-4c90-9999-dc91e9d780a9/SMC_Jeremiah+McLane+021124-_10.png Workshop Summaries - Jeremiah McLane February 11, 2024 Workshop Summary - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/46df4495-a01d-4352-ad67-0c3232f3de28/Gordon+Jeremiah+Kerry+Danny.png Workshop Summaries - Jeremiah McLane February 11, 2024 Workshop Summary - Make it stand out Danny Noveck, Kerry Elkin, Jeremiah McLane, Gordon Peery - the band Fresh Fish, circa 1990 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/workshop-summaries/january-14-2024-workshop-with-ryan-and-brennish-thomson-recap monthly 0.5 2024-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/c44b513f-52d7-4fbe-b6ea-97cc2ed494f8/SMC+Workshop+011424_3.png Workshop Summaries - 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Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/9530f729-4684-4075-ba54-d871f3e8f24f/IMG_7662.jpg Workshop Summaries - October Workshop Recap - Make it stand out On the piano is Annelise Papinsick, a third year law student from Concord. Anne Baier met her through the Acadia Trad Festival. Hopefully this won’t be the only time she drops in for a workshop! https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/workshop-summaries/may2023-recap monthly 0.5 2024-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/1684422149296-2GOW1CM3ZLMVUTB2V3TM/IMG_2576.jpg Workshop Summaries - May Workshop Recap - Ed provided a grand tour of Scottish traditional fiddling during the May gathering. Starting with the march The Free Gardener he demonstrated the use of ornaments such as slow or ‘lazy’ grace notes and unisons for the left hand as well as using hook bowing for the right hand to bring out the ‘marchy’ character. He emphasized the need to take the most time possible on the long dotted 1/8th notes and occasionally modified the notated rhythm to match the feel he wanted. In addition he showed us the way to identify the repeated phrases of the tunes. For example, looking for a question / answer / question / second answer pattern. This works for many tunes, and in this march the pattern is modified in the B part. A new question phrase is followed by a long strain starting quietly and rising in pitch and loudness - the new question is repeated and the tune ends with a reprise of the ending of the A part. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/cb9c01e0-2d25-452d-911a-c805faec66fb/IMG_2571.jpg Workshop Summaries - May Workshop Recap - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/f04d4d58-12bf-435a-919b-64dc7dedd469/IMG_2582.jpg Workshop Summaries - May Workshop Recap - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/82faaa1d-4e84-400c-8baf-4794fd9069bd/Screen+Shot+2023-05-25+at+6.25.07+PM.png Workshop Summaries - May Workshop Recap In the double tonic strathspey Lt. Howard Douglas, Ed used four bows in the first measure, slurring the notes, then digging into the low C note on the back string. He talked about ‘clean’ and ‘dirty’ notes - using a grace note from below to add discord. He used an ‘echo’ note (d) at the end of the A part to keep the rhythm going, and in the B part he bowed the runs of 16th notes as separate notes, emphasizing the 4th beat of the following dotted 1/8th. Ed played The Random Jig with even 1/8th notes (except where the notes repeated) to avoid sounding like a 6/8 pipe march. In the arpeggio rich B part he said to remember to accent the beat notes (two per bar) and to think of the third 1/8th note as a pick-up to the next group of three. Ed suggested a trick to avoid the string crossings in the C part - just repeat the beat - ignoring the octave jump. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/2d81c0b1-570e-48f6-847c-a8750cc40bcc/IMG_2571.jpg Workshop Summaries - May Workshop Recap - Prior to Ed’s workshop, our Vice President, Deb DellOrfano, led a brief annual meeting. She read the following report from Anne Baier, our President: “We have had a very successful year, thanks to our volunteer board and committees. Last summer, the board met several times at Anne’s house and brainstormed ways to attract more and younger members. We came up with a new name that we thought would sound more welcoming. Thus New Hampshire Scottish Music Club was chosen. It is officially registered with the State of NH. In the fall, a committee of 5, spearheaded by Gordon, started working on creating a new website. The website was launched in December. Since the fall, we have added 11 new members and 2 previously lapsed members have returned. We have given two successful concerts and will be sponsoring the Mari Black concert on June 4th, preceded by an open jam. 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That’s Katie leaning in from the right side of the photo. https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/articles/june-jams monthly 0.5 2023-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/15959acd-8a9b-4a6a-bd52-bfc3498fcdad/IMG_3963.JPG Articles - June Jams - On June 4 we hosted a “satellite” session in the Nelson Town Hall as we try to reach more people, especially in other parts of the state where a monthly Concord gathering might not be on their radar. Half a dozen musicians from Nelson and the surrounding towns joined eight SMC members to play tunes from our repertoire. On more than one occasion after a tune had been played (usually three times) there was a request to do it again faster, as people felt confident in their playing. Instruments included fiddles, guitars, cellos, flutes, bass, accordion, mandolin, and piano. After playing for two hours we gathered for snacks and conversation. We’re hoping that our new friends will find their way to Concord for some of our monthly gatherings! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/e579bf86-4189-4618-b2bb-f2b0457cd654/June+20+Annes+barn+jam.jpg Articles - June Jams Finally, on June 20, about a dozen SMC members gathered in Anne’s barn in Bow to welcome Julie Wyrick, visiting from the West Coast. After playing through our concert program Anne’s husband, Clete, treated us to a delicious lunch of sandwiches and pasta salad. Some folks went on their way home after lunch and those that stayed played some tunes from the session book and finished with three tunes Julie had brought with her. Two were tunes her husband Steve Wyrick had written for her: Farewell to Thompson Island, referring to the island in Boston Harbor where there once was Scottish summer camp and one that was nameless or just called Reel for Julie, a slow reel. We finished with Dark Island by Iain MacLachlan (1958). https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/articles/meetjulie monthly 0.5 2023-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/1684423997486-UB25V8X218952KJDYXHG/Julie+and+Steve+Wyrick+Hogmanay+LA+1_1_2019.jpg Articles - Meet Julie from the Left Coast - Make it stand out Julie and her late husband Steve after playing at the Los Angeles Hogmanay Ball Jan. 1, 2019 https://www.nhscottishmusicclub.org/articles/bass-hall monthly 0.5 2026-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/1680554788799-T73UO79DRPZY7FDS5PU2/IMG_4025.jpg Articles - Bass Hall in Pictures - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/70dea61d-1824-4460-ad13-98de77d844bb/Screen+Shot+2023-04-03+at+12.16.50+PM.png Articles - Bass Hall in Pictures - Make it stand out Frank Stewart (mandolin) and Rob Drugan (guitar) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/25746824-1aff-4501-89f4-4b29fa274fb4/Screen+Shot+2023-04-03+at+12.12.57+PM.png Articles - Bass Hall in Pictures - Make it stand out Charlene Ledoux practices her concert smile. 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Frank, Tom, and Barb are our newest members and we featured two of Sylvia’s original tunes - Bittersweet Waltz and Four in One. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/d78290be-5ab1-410c-8551-242e93855c25/Screen+Shot+2023-04-03+at+4.53.02+PM.png Articles - Bass Hall in Pictures - Make it stand out Kip Ferguson did a stand up job as MC. Also in the back row: Rob Drugan on guitar and Bob Reed (standing) on bass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/0647674e-9be1-4939-8402-93971a11c0c4/Screen+Shot+2023-04-03+at+5.04.33+PM.png Articles - Bass Hall in Pictures - Make it stand out We featured one of Alan Wilson’s original tunes, Fernbank Jig. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/54eb79ad-05ef-4ed4-9e6c-6b72d9b6bb2a/Screen+Shot+2023-04-03+at+5.02.18+PM.png Articles - Bass Hall in Pictures - Make it stand out Deb DellOrfano and Katy Botsford (left to right) in the front row; Lillian Wilson and Connie Eppich behind them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62f51c0bcd150d001be2e435/63eb1c65-d9f0-437a-b271-f21170a6fa8c/Screen+Shot+2023-04-03+at+5.16.28+PM.png Articles - Bass Hall in Pictures - Make it stand out Every time Kip stepped up to the microphone, this little boy (on the left) started giggling, making the rest of us laugh. 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