Fiddle Music at Colonial Williamsburg - Panmure set

[baroqueman1]

The second tune is a variant of a Northumbrian pipe tune called ''Blanchand Races'', a variant I've never encountered previously. The folk process is amazing!

[Angel2WIN]

Better than lady gaga.

[Angel2WIN]

Better than lady gaga.

[shincyriades]

Awesome stuff...My ancestors were Scottish / Irish settlers in the Carolinas. Great to hear some traditional tunes in Colonial Williamsburg! 5 stars

[greeneyedsteamengine]

Ay? A Scottish fiddle in Williamsburg?

Hmmm...

[Vespasian76]

Ay! At Chowning's Tavern, evening gambols. Scottish music was quite popular during the later 1700s....after things settled down from the 1745 rebellion. Once trade with the colonies started flowing through Glasgow, music books from the Glasgow and Edinburgh music publishers started flowing as well.

[oxford14]

@greeneyedsteamengine Absolutely!

[jppuertorico85]

@greeneyedsteamengine Thomas Jefferson went to college at WIlliam and Mary in WIlliamsburg in 1760s, and his music books have lots of Scottish fiddle tunes in them, as well as his own words attesting to how much he liked Scottish fiddle music.

[bloodprincess800]

Wonderful in all of its rustic glory ^^