Month: May 2011

We played at an outdoor market in Bridlington yesterday really lovely response to the Hurdy-Gurdy and Hammer Dulcimer – Lots of interest in the music and some really great food – I had the Paella 🙂 The Whiskey Dogs are playing there later in the weekend.

Fantastic gig with Hessle Ceilidh Band last night. You can find out more about them here hessleceilidhband.com

I found this amazing discussion about fusion music on ‘The Session’ website – it starts off with the following and gets more and more involved to see the full thread click here it starts in the following way…….

Hi all.

Does anyone have any ideas on why Irish music completely avoids some of the scales used in other musical traditions – for example “phrygian” scales with flat seconds etc..?

A couple of observations come to mind in this connection:

It seems that pretty much all the scales used in Irish music are used in Indian music, including the use of varying versions when ascending vs descending. Without wanting to offend anyone, I might say that the scales of Irish music form a kind of “subset” of the raga system of Indian classical music.

I’ve heard some amazing music by a group called “The lost music of Celtarabia.” Anyone else heard this and have any comments?

Thoughts/reflections appreciated.

Robin

We played a couple of tunes at the Ship Inn in Sewerby last night – great response and a lovely evening with lots of fantastic music  played in a room with a beautiful acoustic – a really big thumbs up to Shona (the violinist from the amazing Caravaneserai) and Mike her partner from Leeds who played some amazing bluegrass fiddle and banjo and the amazing ‘Whiskey Dogs’ who host the music night every second thursday – Old time Americana with double bass, guitar and mandolin absolutely fantastic.