Here is my approximation of an old-time fiddle tune I heard yesterday on an album by American group The Stairwell Sisters. I couldn’t find it online so I just transcribed it myself. Apparently it was written by someone called Hank Bradley on the passing of an old fiddle player called Roscoe Parish. More…
Pigtown Fling will be playing at The Kames Hotel, Kames, Tighnabruaich, Argyll, Scotland on the Saturday 5th September 2009. We will also be hanging around on the following Sunday afternoon for an open music session, please come and join us.
The Kames Hotel is an excellent place with good food and beer and lovely rooms, all set amongst lovely West Cowal scenery.
A day is a long time in carnival. Blink and you’ll miss it. That was certainly not the case for Pigtown Fling, as we didn’t miss a moment on their trip to Kurentovanje Carnival, Ptuj, Slovenia. More…
Pigtown Fling will be playing at The Kames Hotel, Kames, Tighnabruaich, Argyll on the Saturday 4th July 2009. We will also be hanging around on the following Sunday afternoon for an open music session, please come and join us.
The Kames Hotel is an excellent place with good food and beer and lovely rooms, all set amongst lovely West Cowal scenery. http://kames-hotel.com/
Pigtown Fling will be playing at The Kames Hotel, Kames, Tighnabruaich, Argyll on the 6th June 2009. We will also be hanging around on the following Sunday afternoon for an open music session, please come and join us.
The Kames Hotel is an excellent place with good food and beer and lovely rooms, all set amongst lovely West Cowal scenery.
Les Amis de Jean Langlais Festival, La Fontenelle, Brittany, France
It’s not too long now before our main gig of the year; to play in the local chuch of Saint Samson. The festival is to be held in a small village in Brittany called La Fontenelle, a village of just over 500 inhabitants. It’s basically in the countryside, around 30 miles away from the nearest large town, Rennes. More…
We were invited to play at Kames Hotel on the Kyles of Bute on the 31st of May. We were also asked to initiate a session for any local players on the Sunday. More…
Stephen:
Yeah, it is a great tune. It's tunes like this that make me want to get a banjo!
David Brooks:
This is a great tune. Evie Ladin, the banjo player for the Stairwell Sisters, plays a driving, syncopated version that is the engine for the tune. I
I am in the process of moving all our sites to a new hosting company. The sites have been hosted with GoDaddy for the last year and I can’t say I have been very impressed with the service. More…