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Two tunes. The first is a traditional Québécois reel that I learnt from my friend Jake, and the second is a tune by John Kirkpatrick. Played on my ...

Played on a MacCann Duet, Wheatstone

Three simple variations using two versions of the tune and three melodeons in different keys with the same fingers in roughly the same places throu...

Played for Tune Of The Month on MELNET for February 2012

Apparently it's also French: "Saut du Lapin"

But my take on it is more like "Bunny Cassero...

A whole host of Molly dancers collecting in Ely, Cambridgeshire. This is the en-masse "College Hornpipe". Molly dancing is said to originate in t...

COMMANDO TRAD : La musique traditionnelle du Québec où vous l'attendez le moins au moment où vous l'attendez le moins !

Mission 10: 4 musiciens-enn...

Saturday Night and Bonny Green from Bucknell played on a D/Em 12 bass Super-Preciosa.

16th Jan 2012

Lilly's March and Linden Lea, played on a D/G Saltarelle Bouebe

16th Jan 2012

Shrewsbury Folk Festival 2011

One of the greatest movie songs of all time, this Academy Award winner was written by Harold Allen and Yip Harburg for the 1939 film classic "The W...

These are the lyrics to the song. . .

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum

Drink and the devil had done for the rest

Yo ...

The most realistic and accurate version of this all-time pirate tune. Forget POTC.

The song is subtitled, so you can sing it in your nights at sea...

animation based on the painting by my friend James Gross http://lastswashbuckler.dev...

The Rambling Sailors perform the infamous pirate shanty "The Derelict" at the evening pub sing of the Florida Renaissance Festival, Deerfield Beach...

A slowed down version of Beatrice Hill's Three Hand Reel, played on a Castagnari Mory melodeon in D/G (the tune's played here in G). As far as I kn...

Music evening at Blaxhall Ship.

2011 Stepdance competition at Blaxhall's 'Ship Inn', near Woodbridge, Suffolk. My apologies for the restricted camera angles - I would have liked ...

What is this? Picked up in the Radway early nineties. Very common then. Is it the one about cabbages?

Tune of the month for MELNET October

La Marianne, A French (Bourbonnais) Waltz popularized by Frederic Paris but believed to be traditional.

I think I may have the 1st and 2nd time end...

Primrose Polka then a couple of tunes written by Maggie & Stan (see below), Clog Irons and Kiss the Shuttle followed by Stan in great form on Rawte...

Hohner Pressed Wood melodeon in D/G. Restored and set up by Mike Rowbotham www.michaelrowbotham.com. The first and third tunes I have no name for, ...

totm jan 2011, played on DG Hohner pressed wood.

This is the new step keybord for my accordion.

The song is "Florida Valse" - An old French-Canadian accordion tune played on an Anglo concertina.

A tune from the time of the American Revolutionary War, from the British side. The Bedfordshire March was first published in London in 1770 in "Co...

Short version of a swedish popular waltz by Evert Taube, famous poet etc.

Andy Cutting playing solo at Ruskin Mill on Tuesday 24 May 2011

Bramford Suffolk UK.

Maggie Moore has promoted and nurtured folk music in Suffolk for many years, and in particular has mentored local melodeon p...

Taken from the album "At The End Of The Day".

Ar Éirinn Ní Neosfainn Cé Hí roughly translates to "But for Erinland (that's Ireland for those not in the know), I'd not tell her name.

- This ver...

Another cat video which I've run through the old cat translator to see what was being said...

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Shrewsbury .John Tams

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