Traditional Fiddle Music of the Scottish Borders
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Tom Hughes Book & CD (with 52 tunes) with choice of Spine Bound and Library Bound Tom Hughes was inducted into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame during the BBC Alba Scots Trad Awards in Perth in November 2018: Tom Hughes - Hall of Fame 2018. Many references in the book pdf are internet linked. You may make a donation if you wish - or return to purchase the Book and/or the CD. Click for more information on the separate CD Tom Hughes CD. This outstanding collection of traditional fiddle music from the Scottish Borders was recorded from the playing of Tom Hughes of Jedburgh. Tom and his family were all talented musicians – his grandfather Henry Hughes, father Thomas Hughes and two uncles played together in a family band – two or three fiddles, melodeon and tambourine – playing at the local events, country weddings, harvest home and hiring fair dances. The collection and the accompanying CD include well known tunes such as Flouers O Edinburgh and East Neuk O Fife – but in distinctive variants and old tunes such as Lady Mary Ramsay and Farewell To Whisky. But Tom’s repertoire includes many unusual tunes and some that are unique to to his family repertoire – many hornpipes, some old waltzes and some slow airs including several that have become a classic of the Borders repertoire – Tam’s Old Love Song, Faudenside Polka and Auld Graden Kirn. Although Tom’s style includes many characteristic Scottish elements, it is quite different from any mainstream fiddle style or the dominant fiddle style of Scotland’s North East. Through Tom’s playing we are able to gain an insight into an old, traditional, fiddle style stretching back through Tom’s family well into the 1800s. Tom Hughes & Friends: Traditional Fiddle Music of the Scottish Borders on springthyme/ soundcloud Reviews Lori Watson (FiddleOn47 2015):"Descriptions of isolated techniques . . . derived through careful analysis, are invaluable. Techniques discussed include: Unisons, drones, Double Stops, fiddle chords, grace notes, Birls, and bowings such as Hack, Slur, Shuffle, Snap, Long, Spiccato, and Up and Down-Driven." Click here for a PDF of the Book Introduction.
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