Band leader and fiddler, Ian Powrie (1923-2011), started at age 12 playing accordion in his dad’s band.

74th Highlanders

Kaitoke Regional Park in New Zealand was the scene of Rivendell - in the ‘Lord of the Rings’ movie

Three strathspeys and a Peter Milne reel.

Bridges - not on violins or in tunes - but joining one side to the other - and the tunes named for them.

Outer Hebrides Music

Theme Codes of tunes help you search for ‘families’ of tunes

Skip Gorman shares tips on backup techniques for a slow air, a Scottish March, and a Shetland reel.

Frank Ferrel brings us his Memories of Skye.

SRSNH founder Barbara McOwen shares the history of little and big reels.

This month we have grab-bag, assortment, variety etc. of tunes for you, ranging in date from the 19th to the 21st century, in keys from B flat to D, and coming from Germany to New York.

Two airs for June, one new and one old, both in 3/4 time.

Puirt à beul is a traditional form of song native to Scotland that sets Gaelic lyrics to instrumental tune melodies. Historically, the songs were used to accompany dancing in the absence of instruments and to transmit instrumental tunes orally. [According to Wikipedia]

The quintessentially Scottish. strathspey comes from the valley of the River Spey,” which flows northeast from the Grampian Mountains. Strathspeys are all about the ‘Scotch Snap’ - the Di dum.

2 Tunes with 2 #’s

A couple of months ago, Allan Chertok suggested to the Music Committee that we should introduce some of the toe-tapping Jimmy Shand marches and Harry Lauder songs as a concert set. Ever responsive to our members, we came up with a set of well-loved Scottish ‘marchy’ tunes.