A fantastic night for some members of Celtarabia and friends playing in sessions at the Tiger – The session at the Tiger was really good fun with plenty of music being played until the wee hours – a special hello goes out to Jennie Beastie on fiddle, Amanda Lowe on hammer dulcimer, Helen on hammer dulcimer (two dulcimers together they sound awesome), Quentin on Cahon, Gordon on double Bass, Helen on violin and double bass Mike and Val from Cottingham and the inimitable Wainwright sisters Heather and Hannah the session at the Sun was full on and funky!
Author: Quentin Budworth
Quentin Budworth is a hurdy-gurdy virtuoso, composer, and award-winning filmmaker, blending European folk traditions with drone music, while cycling the Highlands, indulging in cheese, and leading bands Celtarabia and Agent Starling.
Author: The Secret Life of the Hurdy-Gurdy - Field Notes On Playing
https://quentinbudworthmusic.com/book/
Beer Festival Music
Question: What is the sound of one hand clapping?
Answer: An enthusiastic response from a beer festival audience.
We played a short set at Leven Real Ale Festival last night an event organised by by James from Jellycat Media. The Celtarabia-unplugged set went down well – also on the Bill The Harri Watts Band featuring the amazing and occasional Grinnigogs violinist Dave Watts. In the audience good friend wit and raconteur the inimitable Rupert Creed, Kate Mac Donald from Jelly Cat Media and Frankie from acoustic duo Mambo Jambo and latin dance sensation Forro Porro .
Slightly sore head this morning – the Vanilla Porter was amazing.
Great session at the Black Boy, Hull
The first monday of the month you will find us at The Black Boy on the High Street in the old town part of Hull. This is a really great friendly, rollicking session with players from the East Riding, South Bank and of course Hull.
Bridlington
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.
Hessle Ceilidh Band
Fantastic gig with Hessle Ceilidh Band last night. You can find out more about them here hessleceilidhband.com
Session discussion
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
The Ship Inn – Sewerby
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.
Celtarabia 